Director: Randal (Randy) Greenwood

Born March 5, 1949

Randy was born in Liberal, Kansas and lived most of his life in Hugoton, Kansas. He graduated from Hugoton High School in May 1967. During his high school years he was active in plays, photography, wrestling, and 4-H. He was in the local rock band, The Night Walkers from 1966-1967 as lead singer and rhythm guitarist. when the band broke up because of Graduation, some of them headed to college and half in different directions. He also was racing motorcycles during this time and into college reaching as high as the number seven plate in the state of Kansas.

He Attended Kansas State University from the fall of 1967 until the Spring of 1972 when he graduated from Kansas State University in Manhattan with a B. S. in History.

He was married to Gayle Kingshot of New Buffalo, Michigan on August 8, 1970 in Michigan. To this union he had a son Evan L. Greenwood born on August 8, 1978 and a daughter Amber A. Greenwood (Taylor) born on March 4, 1982.

He moved to Pueblo, Colorado in the summer of 1972 and three months later moved to Denver, Colorado where he work for L. D. Brinkman company (a wholesale carpet company. He started out on the cutting floor, moved to delivery truck driver, then night foreman, and finally receiving clerk all within a little less than a year. During this time in Denver he raced Hobby Stock race cars at Denver International Speedway. At that point he had enough of city life and took his Dad's offer to come back and take over the family farm in late 1973. He farmed from 1973 through most of 1978.

In 1976 he began working for Raycolor in Hugoton as a full time professional photographer for about a year after the owner had a heart attack. By 1977 he was working on his own as a professional photographer out of his home while farming on the side. In November 1978 he opened Greenwood Photography at 623 S. main street in  Hugoton, Kansas and has operated as a full time professional photographer at this location ever since, now close to completing his 28 year in business. He stopped farming in November 1978.

In 1985 he was forced to divorce his first wife after 15 years of marriage. In 1987 He married Rebecca Richmeier of Garden City, KS. To this union he had one daughter Ciara D. Greenwood born September 29, 1988.

In 1988 Randy began writing and selling articles to magazines including the Professional Photographer, Action Pursuit Games, Paintball International, and others. Gratified by his success after publishing over twenty paid articles in as many different monthly publications, mostly about paintball and paintball products, he decided to try writing novels.

It had always been a dream for him to write and sell a novel. He ambitiously set out to write his Gone With The Wind Civil War Novel and called it Burn, Missouri, Burn. He wrote this in the early nineties. He completed the book and sold it to Tor Books in 1994. The book was so large the publishing house in 1994 asked him to break the novel down into three separate novels as a paperback trilogy.

These three books, Burn, Missouri, Burn; Kansas, Bloody, Kansas; and Ride, Rebels, Ride were published from November 1995 through September 1996 under the Forge Label for Tor books, a division of St. Martin's Press in New York City. He was asked by his editor to write another three novelson this same family from Missouri after the Civil War and completed one and nearly the second one when his editor quit Tor books to write his own novels. He was then dropped down on a science fiction editor for Tor who was already overloaded. Not interested in historical novels and already overloaded, this editor turned down his books without reading them. Randy then tried to sell the two unpublished books to other publishers, but they didn't want to buy books in a series that they didn't own the publishing rights to the first three published books. Discouraged after investing nearly two years of writing those two unsold novels, and figuring out writing novels pays poorly for the time involved unless someone makes a movie of it, Randy concentrated on Photography, with thoughts of attempting to write screenplays, as they were shorter than novels and paid much more if sold.

In 2005, by accident he met Joel Trujillo. Joel and Randy's son Evan, both shared a love for Star wars and Evan as a storm Trooper and Joel as Darth Vader were both in a Halloween costume contest which, Joel Trujillo (Who goes by his everyday life name as Christopher Garrison) won. It turned out that Joel was working on filming his second short Star Wars fan film and Evan joined him and was an actor in the film.

Interested in the filming process led Randy to team up with Joel to co-write and co-direct their first film together by writing an all original script. It was a film based on the legendary George Romero's Night Of The Living Dead, only set in Western Kansas in 1968 called Dusk Of The Living Dead. Casting calls were made in March of 2006 and filming began in April 2006. The first movie, Dusk Of The Living Dead was filmed in Hugoton, Liberal, and Beaver, Oklahoma on a very low budget with a very talented volunteer cast and crew. It has a run time of just under an hour. The World Premiere was held in Hugoton Kansas at the Memorial Hall on July 3, 2006. A second showing of the film will be held, Friday July 28 in Elkhart, Kansas at the VFW Hall. Other showings are being considered.

Meanwhile, JFT Productions owned by Joel Trujillo, and Nightwalker films owned by Randal Greenwood,  will use this first learning experience on film to improve their screen writing and learn what it takes to write and film even better full length movies. Already they are working on two more screenplays together. The First is a sequel to their first film, called Fields Of The Living Dead, and the second is Lost Treasure Trail which will be set in the present and will be their first film in Color. Filming on "Fields" is expected to be in the fall of 2006 and the Lost Treasure Trail to hopefully film in the Spring of 2007. Other script ideas are being developed, including ones for possible sell to Hollywood as well as more for local filming. "I've sold magazine articles and novels, and truly believe with a little practice I can sell scripts too!", said Randy.

"We are learning while we are having a blast making our own films and movies. We have already worked with some talented actors and actresses and hope to discover many more. Joel and I work as a team together on our projects as co-writers and co-directors."

Randy intends to keep doing Photography for a living and doing films and scripts on the side in the future. They hope this is only the beginning!