Chocolate Milk is the story of two slow-witted brothers, Kyle and Phillip, who are forced to fend their way through life after a low-flying Cessna killed their mother. Kyle is an eternal optimist and Phillip is depressed, lazy and lives in the past. This film follows Kyle and his determination to get Phillip off the couch and out into the world by going on a job interview, which goes terribly wrong.

To find out more about this project, and to see interviews with our characters, check out our website at chocolatemilkmovie.com.

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Your Support

Your contribution will help make this film a reality! While we have partial funding already, the goal we have set here will get us to the minimum budget we need to make this film as we envision it. Anything over that goal will just make the film that much better.

Core Team

Mike Ring
Writer/Director

After a long run as an Art Director for the Discovery Channel, Mike co-founded a small creative firm called The Garden.

Mike has written and directed several short films and web shorts, most notably: Co-Writer for the Webby-winning Mythbusters web series, Behind the Story: Buster; Co-Writer and Director for Hush, selected for the Best of DC awards for the 48 Hour Film Project.

JR SoldanoSecond Director

JR is an award-winning creative with over 20 years experience in writing and directing. His love of TV, movies, and music—and the creative process therein—led him to join The Discovery Channel as a supervising producer in 2002. In 2008, JR moved with his family to Los Angeles to pursue full-time directing and writing. He has since directed a wide range of pieces for The Discovery Channel, HGTV, TBS and Science Channel, and is currently finishing his third screenplay.

Check out his work at Soldanovision.com

Harvey Guillen
Producer/Actor, Phillip

Starting young in musical theater led Harvey to TV and film. He started in the ABC Family series Huge, is in the upcoming film General Education with Janeane Garofalo and  was the lead in the HBO film El Tux. Harvey has been seen on Scrubs and Miss Guided opposite SNL alum, Chris Parnell. He also has many commercials under his belt.

Check out Harvey on IMDB.

Chad Jamian Williams 
Actor, Elmer

Chad Jamian Williams was born in Hollywood, Florida, and now lives in Hollywood, California. He began his acting career commercially in Orlando, Florida and has appeared in dozens of roles to date, including a season-run as spokesperson for NASCAR on FOX featured with legendary and current drivers.

After numerous commercial roles, Chad transitioned into the world of film. His first film role was as Bart in Brian Hecker's Bart Got a Room, a quirky film festival favorite starring William H. Macy and Cheryl Hines.

Chad's unique take on character acting has earned him guest spots on some of TV's hottest programming - 90210, Bones, Desperate Housewives, and 2 Broke Girls.

Find out more about Chad on IMDB.

Nathan Mobely 
Actor, Kyle

Despite the bitter irony of his lactose intolerance, Nathan would like to thank Mike Ring and Chocolate Milk for bringing back some of his best (powdered) Nesquik Chocolate Milk memories—those were the days. 

Nathan got his acting start on the theater stage, performing in such roles as Hally in Master Harold and the boys; Mercutio in Shakespeare’s R & J; and Richard in The Lion in Winter.  In addition to numerous plays and short films, he can be seen as Sam North in the feature film The Other Side and in the feature Yesterday Was A Lie, which spawned a web series starring Nathan’s hapless lab assistant character.  Most recently, Nathan was seen in the award-winning independent web series Gold, set in the world of professional role-play gamers, and is set to begin filming a new web series about the trials of love and food called Pairings.  Nathan lives in Glendale, California with his wife, Jessie, and son, Max.

Find out more about Nathan on IMDB.

Yoni SandlerDirector of Photography

LA-based cinematographer and chocolate milk lover. yonisandler.com

Daniel Andres Gomez Bagby
Unit Production Manager  

Daniel is an LA based producer and independent film maker. Check out his most recent project, cincomovie.com.