ABOUT HAHN FILMS AND MATTHEW HAHN

THE ORIGIN OF HAHN FILMS

Around 2001, I created the name Hahn Films and started using it as my logo. I never really gave much thought to it. I just wanted to use it because it was my name. In my first few films Hahn Films was just white letters that came up on screen one at a time. You can see this in the beginning of my film A Mob Story. I then changed it to another name and completely new logo for The Revolver. In that film I used the name Solid Snake Industries with a subtitle saying: The New Hahn Films. I would have probably kept that logo and name if it wasn't for copyrights. I didn't want to keep using a logo that I was stealing from Metal Gear Solid, so instead I switched back to Hahn Films for my next project, Unseen Justice. Then , I decided instead of changing the name, change the logo. I was getting tired of the white letters. I figured if I was going to call the studio Hahn Films, the logo needed something to do with my last name. I went to a rennaissance fair in upstate New York during the summer of last year, and while I was there we got a plack made up with our family origin and crest on it. The crest immidiately caught my eye. It was a picture of a knight's helmet and a rooster around a floral design in blue. This is when I discovered that the name Hahn actually means rooster in German. At first I was going to change the name of my studio to Golden Rooster Pictures, but then again I stuck by Hahn Films and decided on making my family crest the actual logo for the studio. With that set, Hahn Films was truly born and from now on it will never change.

MATTHEW HAHN BIOGRAPHY

Since I was born, my Father has always filmed me. I was the only one out of my siblings that was filmed constantly. It was probably the reason I had ever thought about picking up a camera myself and doing what I do now. The first time I ever attempted making a movie was when I was five. At this time, I had made short films with my Father when I was home with him during the school days. The film that I made involved my Father, Mother, Brother, and me. It was my fifteen minute version of the recent Batman film at the time, Batman Forever. As a five year old Batman, the film was nothing special. It was basically a test of what I could do in the beginning. As time went on, for my birthday one year I got a camera that was black and white and plugged in to a television. I made tons of short films with the sister of one of my Father's employers. We had a lot of fun creating stories and acting, but what I most liked to do was tell her what to do and make her do things that I wanted. When times in my family were getting worse, and nothing was holding together anymore, my parents divorced in 1999. We all moved on and soon after I got a new camera. This time it was an 8MM camcorder that I filmed everything with. Because my parents were divorced, my Father had a lot of free time. We started going on vacations with his family and so on, which I brought my camera along and filmed what I could. During the summers, I'd stay with my Mother's sister for a few weeks where I could film short movies with my cousins. The films we made were of course low budget, but good to a point. I made two films with my cousins: Jelousy and In Love With a Murderer. These were my first two real films. They had a plot and characters with an ironic twist. As time passed, I also started making films with my Father's Step-family. My Step-mom had two sons, in which we made a few movies as well. I made three memorable ones with them: Changing Identities, Resident Evil, and The Way of the Gun. That was about 2002 when these films were all done. As my technology started to increase, I recieved a new computer and another camera, which was more towards the digital age of filming. The camera was a Panasonic MiniDV Palmcorder. It acted as the first camera I had ever made films worthwhile. The first few films I made with it were basically tests. Nothing special, just everyday fulling around with my Step-brothers. After a while, I got a DVD burner which changed my whole editing process. I decided it was time to come in to the new century and begin putting films on DVD. The first true film I put on DVD was The Hitmen. It was a short film I made with my cousins that turned out the best it could. The movie that I call one of my masterpieces is the second film I put on DVD. This was a story I changed many times. In the end it turned out to be A Mob Story, and it included my crew of close friends: Justin, James, and Matt. Justin was also a struggling director who had made a few short films in his time. A Mob Story was a great success over friends and family. During the production of A Mob Story, I was also working on a film based on my favorite game series, Metal Gear Solid. The film is probably one of the worst I've ever made. Only two people star in it, and the majority of the roles are played by me. After those two films debuted around October of 2004, I started coming up with another idea after watching the recently released Kill Bill by one of my favorite directors, Quantin Tarantino. I came up with The Revolver, which started filming in March 2005, but stopped almost right after the first scene was shot. After seeing the masterpiece that was Revenge of the Sith, I decided that George Lucas was back on top and invading my mind with new ideas. He has always been my idol director, but I had never really attempted a Star Wars film before. Since I had never done it, I came up with the script of Star Wars: Episode O-Secrets of the Federation. The cast was set and the production was about to take off. One day, I got all my friends together and was about to begin filming, when my blue screen wasn't cooperating and neither was my actors. In a heep of failure, I became frustrated and irritated. This is the day I decided to give up what I've worked so hard to try and become, a director. Luckily, Justin talked me back in to doing what I loved and he asked if we could finish a simplier project that was started, but not complete. He was referring to The Revolver. Back on my feet, I gather friends and family and began production again on The Revolver. By the next October, The Revolver was complete and viewed. Again I was able to create a film that my friends and family praised. For a while after The Revolver, I didn't film or direct any films. It wasn't until Justin asked me to star in his upcoming TV Production project that I would have been in anything. The movie was called Stirring of a Consciousness and it starred Jonathan Whitehouse and myself. The plot was rich and the characters were likable and hatable at the same time. To this day, my TV Production teacher still says he hates me in that movie. Justin's film was a bigger success in the school then ever before. He became well-known in the class and created a barrior for me. I was pushed down to nothing and became jeolous. I thought that what he had made was above all, the best student film either of us had ever made. The TV teacher, for a long time, knew me as the student in Justin's film. I was never referred to as anything else. It wasn't until that summer that things were about to change. My Father and I had been trying to create a movie that could be made using everyone I knew, between New Jersey and New York. Over the summer, I wrote a powerful script entitled "The Shadow Killer". My Father read it and insisted that the name be changed to something a little more catchy. I tried hard to come up with a title that would catch the viewers eye. Finally, Unseen Justice was born. By September, the first scene was filmed and the beginning of the year was my time to shine. On the first day of school, I showed the scene to the TV teacher and Unseen Justice became my school year project. For seven long months of filming and editing, Unseen Justice was finally finished in April 2007 and TV Production was about to see a masterpiece never seen before. This would be the film to make things happen for me. This would be the beginning of my career as a director.