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ABOUT RATTLESNAKE PRODUCTIONS

Film Makers Declan & Beate Maynes in Los Angeles

RATTLESNAKE PRODUCTIONS, is a truly independent Film Production Company,
founded in 2007 by Declan Maynes and run by Declan and his wife Beate.

Born midst of the troubles in Belfast/Northern Ireland in 1971, DECLAN went from deep-sea fisherman in Ardglass, to E-Bass Alumni at the Viennese AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MUSIC, to founding the
RATTLESNAKE instore TATTOO & PIERCING STUDIO in Vienna and finally to Film Maker.

BEATE, born in 1964, got her highschool diploma and has worked at several record companies such as
WEA Records and in various Record Stores until 1989 when she opened the
first Rock/Metal/Punk Band Merch Store RATTLESNAKE in Vienna/Austria, which she still attends to aside from working with Declan on their films and projects.

"We are both self taught - filming, directing and editing Music Videos and Documentaries. We don't need a crew, carrying and setting up our gear - we do it all ourselves and we enjoy each and every moment of it!

Because we are such a small team, we very often have to learn new skills and need to be inventive to always find a way to achieve the best result for all the tasks we set for ourselves.

Our first feature documentary TATTOOED - THE MOVIE has won the prestigious Indie Award and is available on Amazon Prime.

After TATTOOED, we started our next documentary - "GUITAR'D" - for which we interviewed over 80 guitarists (so far..) about their love and passion for their instrument - here are just a few:

Steve Vai
Paul Stanley (KISS)
Slash
Michael Schenker
Zakk Wylde
Nuno Bettencourt (Extreme)
Michael Anthony (Van Halen, Chickenfoot)
Jason Becker (David Lee Roth, Cacophony)
Johnny Winter
Joe Satriani
Paul Gilbert (Mr. Big, Racer X)
Pete Thorn (Chris Cornell)
Steve Lukather (Toto)
Dweezil Zappa
Munky (Korn)
John 5 (David Lee Roth, Rob Zombie)
Kerry King (Slayer)
John Petrucci (Dreamtheater)
Paul Reed Smith
Billy Sheehan
Ryan McGarvey (Winner of Eric Claptonís Crossroads)
James Burton (TCB/Elvis guitarist)
Dave Meniketti ( Y&T )
Douglas Aldrich (Whitesnake, Dio)
Lita Ford
Rusty Anderson (Paul Mc Cartney, Elton John)
Jennifer Batten (Michael Jackson, Jeff Beck)
Scott Ian (Anthrax)
...

In 2016 we took a break from GUITAR'D to visit the Los Angeles based rock photographer NEIL ZLOZOWER, whose VAN HALEN shots accompanied us through our whole life.
Although "Zloz" is mostly known for his photos of VAN HALEN, MOTLEY CRUE or GUNS N' ROSES, he shot probably everybody you can think of..

IN YOUR FACE - THE NEIL ZLOZOWER STORY won acclaim at international film festivals and had its premiere at the Beverly Hills Film Festival on April 6th 2018 at the TCL Chinese Theatres in Hollywood.

You can watch TATTOOED and IN YOUR FACE soon here on VIMEO and other platforms t.b.a."

IN YOUR FACE The Neil Zlozower Story Cover

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Self taught film makers

We are both self taught in filming, directing and editing - enjoying interviewing interesting people and then tell their story.

Self financed

Everything - from equipment or software to travel expenses - we finance everything ourselves - with the money we make in our rockstore RATTLESNAKE Vienna > www.rattlesnake.at

Visionaries

With having so many ideas it can be hard to pick one and stay with it.
So most of the times we work on more than one projects simultaneously..

Main Equipment & Gear

Cameras:
2x Sony FS70, Sony FS7, Sony NEX-FS700E, Panasonic P2, Atomos Samurais & Shoguns
Editing Software:
Final Cut Pro X, Avid, Final Cut Pro, After Effects