Hank Braxtan much like Matt Spease always
wanted to make movies. He's been making
home movies since he was about 8 or 9. In
6th grade, he went to Camp Cheley for a
month during the summer. There was a
movie competition they had there. They
divided the kids into two groups, and they
had one day to make a movie with a VHS
video camera. After a short brainstorming
session, Hank came up with an idea about
killer stuffed animals. Hank's first film was
the winner of the competition. Other little
films followed including "Don’t go in the
Basement", "Friday the 13th X" in early
1995, almost a full decade before New Line
decided to make "Jason X". Then came
"Satan Santa", "All-out Porno presents: Pat's
German Project", and "Rambo 4" just to
name a few. He graduated high school in
June of 1998, three weeks later he was off
to Basic Training to become a soldier in the
United States Army. His first assignment
was Korea. He was 18 years old, and away
from his family and friends for the first time in
his life, and the first place the Army sent him
was 7,000 miles from anything he knew. But
during the twilight of his tour there, he got
back into the filmmaking habit with two films:
"The Zoeckler Heckler", and "The Zoeckler
Heckler 2: Son of Simmons". He returned
home to the United States in January of
2000. He quickly got back into filmmaking,
making a couple of short projects including
"Super Captain Guy", "Masters of the
Universe: Behind the music", "Medal of
honor: a tribute to heroes", "Ball Wars
Episode 2003: Attack of the Casuals", and
“Army Ball Reloaded”. He made his first film
over an hour long in April of 2003, entitled
"Five days and Fifty K". He also submitted a
film entitled "Friday the 13th AGAIN!" to the
Mania Fest 2003 "Friday the 13th cut 'em
up" film contest, in which he won third place.
Shortly after making “Army Ball Episode
2003”, he purchased the rights to the
domain braxtanfilm.com. With the help of a
few friends, he built this website up over a
year, the website going through several
incarnations before the one that is up today.
In August 2004 his term of service with the
Army ended, and he was honorably
discharged as a Staff Sergeant. he returned
to college the same month, and enrolled at
the Colorado Film School (University of
Colorado). He left film school after three
years and took a job at a production
company in Hollywood. He's currently
developing a couple feature films and
television shows.