Getty stock footage material. In early 2006 Kines finished his film, and when the competition was open to the public for final voting, The Closest Thing to Time Travel won Kines the Grand Prize of $10,000 and trips to New York City, Chicago, and Bozeman, Montana, where Kines was a speaker at HATCHfest. Other work Since 2005, Kines has been working as a freelance copywriter, creating trivia-based content for the Blu-ray releases of several major studio films, and for the well-received end credit sequence for the 2010 comedy The Other Guys. Kines has also written and/or directed several short films after The Closest Thing to Time Travel, including Portrait of a Pensive Lady (2008), Party Pooper (2008), and Ron and Nancy (2010). In 2013, Kines authored and hosted an online screenwriting course on Lynda.com. In 2015, Kines crowdfunded a short film called 20 Matches. It was screened at several major film festivals in 2016, including Seattle International Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival, Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, Ashland Independent Film Festival and Sarasota Film Festival. Filmography Foreign Correspondents (1999) Serial Slayer aka Claustrophobia (2003) References Cassavafilms.com Lynda.com's Screenwriting Fundamentals course FilmJerk.com Interview with Dark Savant (2001) Horror Asylum Interview with Phil Davies Brown (2004) Film producers from California 1970 births Living people People from Cupertino, California Film directors from California