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And finally, an updated version of this site - to our great embrassment - and yet, to our pleasant surprise, literally thousands of Visitors have been regularly checking this site. Well, what can we say, but we owe you one because the changes within the last 9 months have been minimal to understate the obvious.... So we reward your patience and loyaltyat the cost of Gregg Rounds' own personal embarassment, by presenting a collection of his earliuest works, traversing various atistic mediums; from Writing, Film, Animation, and yes, even Modeling, both Commercial Video and Print. Take a look at the amatuerish works that Rounds first created, have a laugh, and then check in with our current projects and progress.

loyaltyRounds has returned to Feature Screenplay work. He and the highly acclaimed Director, Filmmaker, and Writer: PJ Raval, have just completed a feature script, "Boys Without Cars.” A stunning and touching meditation about young parents and their teenage kids, simultaneously experiencing maturation, and the journey through self discovery, and the bittersweet challenges of love.
Raval and Rounds became friends and colleagues while attending UT’s Graduate Film Program. Raval will direct “Boys Without Cars,” and hopes to begin production within the year. They are also actively collaborating on future products.

 

LATEST PROJECTS

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PJ Raval has become one the Austin Film Community’s proudest talents.
He was recently honored with the incredibly prestigious and humbling award as:
One of the Top 25, Young American Filmmakers
(additional information is on the way).


For more information on PJ Raval and his work:
Gregg Rounds and PJ Raval will be joining forces at the Austin Film Festival to host a Panel exploring:
the writing and development process that occurs when a Writer and a Director work on a screenplay together. The Panel will focus on the incredible benefits of Writers and Directors collaborating:
Defining and Building the Concept; Outlining and Scripting Under Budget; and Writing as a Team to complete a successful and “production-ready” screenplay.

Currently on Rounds’ cluttered desk: his most passionate and creative project to date: "We Get Closer." This is an original, quasi-science fiction, and satirical perspective on life and love in the year: 2043. Rounds also has a Narrative-Documentary project that blends the historical realties of a famous City, a famous Writer, and the contrast of the imaginary reality within this Writer’s very famous and abstract literary world.
Gregg Rounds and PJ Raval will be joining forces at the Austin Film Festival to host a Panel exploring:
the writing and development process that occurs when a Writer and a Director work on a screenplay together. The Panel will focus on the incredible benefits of Writers and Directors collaborating:
Defining and Building the Concept; Outlining and Scripting Under Budget; and Writing as a Team to complete a successful and “production-ready” screenplay.

PJ Raval is a highly acclaimed, award winning: Director, Filmmaker, Cinematographer, and Writer based in Austin. Raval earned his MFA in Production (2003/2004) at the Film Dept. at the University of Texas at Austin, he also teaches Production at UT Austin, and other local area Universities and Colleges.

Over the last year alone, Raval has spent considerable time at the Sundance Institute, Canne’s, SXSW, and the Austin Film Festival. Raval’s numerous films – including these high profile, Independent Feature Films: “Room,” (Dir: Kyle Henry – Producers: Jim McKay and Michael Stipe); “Gretchen,” (Dir: Steve Collins – Prod: Anish Savjani); Burnt Orange Production/UT Film Institute’s “Cassidy Kids” (Jake Vaughan and Bryan Poyser) - have amassed an impressive list of recognition, including: 2006 Independent Spirit Award (nomination); 2005 Sundance Feature Premiere; 2005 Cannes Director’s Fortnight International Premiere “Room” (Dir: Kyle Henry, Producers: Jim McKay and Michael Stipe); and recently Raval won the 2006 Independent Spirit Award “John Cassavetes Award.”

 “Haskell Wexler Award for best use of cinematography” for “room” at the 2005 Woodstock Film Festival.

Gretchen”, starring Courtney Davis, Stephen Root (Office Space, News Radio) and Becky Ann Baker (Freaks and Geeks).

2005 Cannes Film Festival

Other highlights for Raval: 2002 Student Academy Award winner for “Sophie”, (dir: Helen H. Lee); The Illuminati Award for Best Cinematography at the Westfest Film Festival for “Pillowfight” (dir: Scott Rice - Showtime broadcast fall 2002)

PJ has also had several feature articles dedicated to his talent, including: “American Cinematographer” (May, 2005); and “The Austin Chronicle.”

 
Raval has recently completed co-writing the feature screenplay: “Boys Without Cars,” with Screenwriter, Gregg Rounds.
Raval and Gregg Rounds became friends and colleagues while attending UT’s Graduate Film Program at the same time.
Raval will Direct “Boys Without Cars,” Rounds will also work as an active Producer on the film. They hope to begin production within the year. They are also actively collaborating on future products, and doing their part to make it possible to sustain a film career in Austin.

Currently, Raval is finishing work on his epic and captivating Feature Documentary: “Best Kept Secret” about a life in a small Colorado town, contrasted with the thousands of Transsexuals from all over, who journey to this small town for gender reassignment surgery  (winner of the 2004 Texas Filmmaker Production Fund; Austin City of Cultural Contracts Grant Recipient).