Combining Zaso's producing and acting abilities with Parda's writing, directing and cinematographical  abilities, the two men gathered an army of creative colleagues and veteran artists of their past efforts. During one of the blizzards of January, 1994, Parda presented Zaso with an original screenplay for "5 Dead on the Crimson Canvas." Zaso took an instant liking to this homage to the "giallo" film (a sub-genre of lurid murder mysteries made popular by Italians in the early 1970s). Pre-production soon began and the film (which combined the Super 8mm and 16mm formats) was shot in the Fall of 1994. After a particularly pain-staking post-production process,"5 Dead on the Crimson Canvas" premiered on May 4, 1996 at the American Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, New York. It then had an exclusive screening at the celebrated Cinema Arts Centre of Huntington, New York.  On June 22, 1996, the film was screened in Rome,  Italy at the 16th Annual FANTAFESTIVAL  with Zaso in attendance. He arrived back in New York with a plaque for the  2nd Place Winner of the FANTAFESTIVAL's video competition. Produced on an extremely tight budget of $25,000, "5 Dead on the Crimson Canvas" was hailed as "Intriguing!" by Newsday's John Anderson. It was also named 1998's Best Outlaw Video by the  popular film magazine, Cinefantastique.

 In 1997, Zaso and Parda re-teamed for a two-part anthology thriller, "Guilty Pleasures" which told two offbeat tales set within a seemingly ordinary  apartment building. This time around, Parda wrote and directed one episode, "Nocturnal Emissions" while  Zaso wrote and directed the second entitled,  "Method to the Madness."

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