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28 ProjectsWork History
Special Effect Technician
Mik Kastner FX
Special Effects Pyrotechnician
AFX Pro LLC
2012 - Present
Mandeville, LA
Fireworks displays for various events.
Inventor
TorchBright
2013 - 2014
Education
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Skills
2017 Movie
The Beguiled
Role
Pyro Foreman
Description
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The unexpected arrival of a wounded Union soldier at a girls school in Virginia during the American Civil War leads to jealousy and betrayal....
2017 Movie
Logan
Role
Pyro Foreman
Description
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In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X, somewhere on the Mexican border. However, Logan's attempts to hide from the world, and his legacy, are upended when a young mutant arrives, pursued by dark forces....
2016 Movie
Free State of Jones
Role
Special Effects Shop Foreman
Description
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A disillusioned Confederate army deserter returns to Mississippi and leads a militia of fellow deserters and women in an uprising against the corrupt local Confederate government....
2016 Movie
Deepwater Horizon
Role
Special Effects Technician
Description
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A dramatization of the disaster in April 2010, when the offshore drilling rig called the Deepwater Horizon exploded, resulting in the worst oil spill in American history....
2016 Movie
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
Role
Special Effects Technician
Description
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Jack Reacher must uncover the truth behind a major government conspiracy in order to clear his name. On the run as a fugitive from the law, Reacher uncovers a potential secret from his past that could change his life forever....
2016 Movie
10 Cloverfield Lane
Role
Special Effects Set Foreman
Description
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After getting in a car accident, a woman is held in a shelter with two men, who claim the outside world is affected by a widespread chemical attack....
2015 Movie
Focus
Role
Special Effects Foreman
Description
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In the midst of veteran con man Nicky's latest scheme, a woman from his past - now an accomplished femme fatale - shows up and throws his plans for a loop....
2015 Movie
Fantastic Four
Role
Propshop Foreman
Description
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Four young outsiders teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe which alters their physical form in shocking ways. The four must learn to harness their new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy....
2014 Movie
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Role
Special Effects Technician
Description
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A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier....
2014 Movie
The Loft
Role
Special Effects Technician
Description
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Five married guys conspire to secretly share a penthouse loft in the city--a place where they can carry out hidden affairs and indulge in their deepest fantasies. But the fantasy becomes a nightmare when they discover the dead body of an unknown woman in the loft, and they realize one of the group must be involved....
2014 Movie
22 Jump Street
Role
Special Effects Technician
Description
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After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college....
2014 Movie
American Horror Story: Meet Ms. Nola - Shooting on Location in New Orleans
Role
Special Effects Technician
Description
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The cast and crew of American Horror Story's third season, discuss how inspiring and how it is filming on location in New Orleans....
2013 Movie
Ender's Game
Role
Special Effects Technician
Description
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Young Ender Wiggin is recruited by the International Military to lead the fight against the Formics, a genocidal alien race which nearly annihilated the human race in a previous invasion....
2013 Movie
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Role
Special Effects Technician
Description
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In order to restore their dying safe haven, the son of Poseidon and his friends embark on a quest to the Sea of Monsters, to find the mythical Golden Fleece, all the while trying to stop an ancient evil from rising....
2013 Movie
As I Lay Dying
Role
Special Effects Technician
Description
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Based on the classic novel by William Faulkner, first published in 1930, "As I Lay Dying" is the story of the death of Addie Bundren and her family's quest to honor her last wish to be buried in the nearby town of Jefferson....
2013 Movie
G.I. Joe: Retaliation
Role
Special Effects Technician
Description
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The G.I. Joes are not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence....
2013 Movie
12 Years a Slave
Role
Special Effects Technician Uncredited
Description
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In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery....
2012 TV Movie
Scent of the Missing
Role
Special Effects Foreman
Description
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A search-and-rescue officer braves the harshest conditions with her best friend and partner, a Labrador retriever....
2012 Movie
Spring Break '83
Role
Scenic Artist
Description
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The Z-Rows, four friends who are bullied by their graduating high school class find revenge against the now freshman college students while on Spring Break during 1983....
2012 Movie
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Role
Special Effects Technician
Description
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Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, discovers vampires are planning to take over the United States. He makes it his mission to eliminate them....
2012 Movie
Battleship
Role
Prop Shop Technician: Baton Rouge
Description
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A fleet of ships is forced to do battle with an armada of unknown origins in order to discover and thwart their destructive goals....
2009 Movie
Black Water Transit
Role
Propmaker
Description
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Story follows the divergent agendas of criminals, cops and lawyers as they collide over a shipment of illegal firearms and a double homicide. Earl Pike, a criminal, tries to get his family's illegal gun collection to a safe haven....
2008 Movie
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Role
Carpenter
Description
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Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences....
2008 Movie
Solstice
Role
Special Effects Technician
Description
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While on a summer trip with her friends, Megan begins to feel the presence of Sophie, her twin sister who recently committed suicide....
2008 Movie
Labou
Role
Assistant Art Director
Description
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Three kids get lost in the Louisiana bayou in search of a ghost pirate and his lost treasure, but what they discover is true friendship and the adventure of a lifetime....
2006 TV Movie
Not Like Everyone Else
Role
Scenic Foreman
Description
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After a teacher becomes supposedly becomes ill at Union School, Oklahoma, Native American teenager Brandi Blackbear (Alia Shawkat) is accused of putting a hex on the teacher and suspended. ...
2006 TV Movie
The Initiation of Sarah
Role
Scenic Artist
Description
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A college student uses her supernatural powers against a rival sorority house. A remake of the 1978 TV movie....
2006 Movie
Deja Vu
Role
Carpenter
Description
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After a ferry is bombed in New Orleans, an A.T.F. agent joins a unique investigation using experimental surveillance technology to find the bomber, but soon finds himself becoming obsessed with one of the victims....
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