Film & Media Production — Los Angeles

Revealing the hidden magic within everyday life.

Quixotic United is an independent film collaborative led by writer-director Patrick Skeyhill, producing narrative shorts, features, and vertical series since 2011.

About

Quixotic United

Our mission is to create and distribute work that reveals the hidden magic within everyday life. Finding these secret realities brings people closer to the world they inhabit, and to the people they share it with. We seek transparency and audience participation in the making of our projects — in a modern, quasi-magical age, there's no need for a gap between producer and consumer. We strive to blur the line between artist and audience.

Quixotic United was founded in 2011 by writer-director Patrick Skeyhill. What began as a thesis film has grown into an ongoing collaborative, built around a small, rotating crew of specialists who write and produce work in-house — as well as for outside musicians and screenwriters.

Patrick Skeyhill

Patrick Skeyhill on set

Patrick Skeyhill is a director and writer working across narrative film, experimental shorts, and episodic vertical series. He founded Quixotic United in 2011 while still a student, producing the short film "Breathfull" as its first release.

He has since directed more than a dozen shorts, a feature, and several vertical series — working across genres from horror and romance to comedy and hybrid documentary, alongside earning an MFA in Film Production from Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts in 2022.

Based in Los Angeles, Patrick now splits his time between several projects moving through every stage of the pipeline, and continues to work with a small crew of longtime collaborators on every project.

Selected Work

Films & Series

2022 · Short, Drama

a fragile heaven

A nurse at a psych ward is tasked with destroying a patient's manufactured family as a form of healing. Currently in development to be expanded into a feature.

2023 · Vertical Series · Good Shorts

Jailed Bird

A young woman's college friends help her get revenge against her abusive step-father.

2024 · Vertical Series · ShortMax

My Husband's Hidden Desires

Devoted to the husband who once rescued her, Nora's idyllic life crumbles when she discovers he staged the very accident that brought them together.

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Feature, Drama · In Post-Production

The Diagnosis

When an agoraphobic man begins an online relationship with a beautiful Russian woman, his roommate warns him that she may actually be a spy leading him to treason.

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Short · In Development

Dream's Peace

Hearing that his mother will kill him if he returns home, a young boy must determine who is the bigger threat: his mom, or the mysterious stranger who warned him about her.

Sands of Time poster
Feature · In Development

Sands of Time

An aging, deposed dictator on trial for war crimes strives to prove his innocence, despite his deteriorating mind becoming less capable of separating memory from myth.

View the Full Filmography 2011–Present — every short, feature, and vertical series
Post-ProductionThe DiagnosisFeature, drama
In DevelopmentSands of TimeFeature, drama
In DevelopmentDream's PeaceShort, drama
PreproductionThe Single SecretFeature
2024My Husband's Hidden DesiresVertical series, ShortMax
2023Jailed BirdVertical series, Good Shorts
2022a fragile heavenShort, drama — in development as a feature
2021One BodyShort, drama
2019LensExperimental, romance
2018Loves LossShort, horror-romance
2017Desire — Reel #0Short, horror
2016From Across the RoomShort, romance
2015Ask MantisAnimation, comedy
2014Love Conquers AllShort, comedy
2014Real LoveFeature, romantic-comedy — Quixotic United's debut feature, crowdfunded and premiered at the Stadium Theatre
2013AnimusShort, horror
2013Towards BethlehemShort, horror-romance
2012What Dread Lies for PalinurusShort, surreal
2012BreathfullShort, surreal-comedy — Quixotic United's first release
2011Cherry IncarnadineShort, drama
Team

Our Collaborators

Quixotic United is led day-to-day by Patrick Skeyhill, working alongside a small crew of longtime collaborators who return project after project.

Alberto D'Agostino

Alberto D'Agostino

Cinematographer

Studying photography in college has helped Alberto fit into his role of cinematographer and has brought a unique visual palette and skill set to complement Mr. Skeyhill's. Passionate about the art of visual storytelling, he relishes the challenge of transitioning between still photography and motion picture and is eager to show how the two can influence each other.

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Jake Standley

Jake Standley

Production Manager

A longtime friend of Patrick's, Jake handles casting outreach and filming locations, and keeps productions on schedule as unit production manager.

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Richard Nickerson

Richard Nickerson

House Composer

Trained in music composition and film scoring at UMass Amherst. Has scored the crew's projects going back to "Breathfull," including the feature "Real Love."

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Bob Skerry

Bob Skerry

Voice Actor

Bob Skerry is a fresh-yet-educated voice actor carrying a wide variety of voices and reads in his heavy bag, along with his experience in the Twitch dimension and greater nerd-sphere. Bob specializes in character, commercial, and narration reads as he learned them from several voiceover artists and engineers. He is more than flexible and happy to play with you in any read you might need!

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CP Meehan

CP Meehan

Gaffer

Built a foundation in theatre before joining Quixotic United in winter 2012 to light "Breathfull." His theatrical background brings a distinct visual style to the crew's cinematography.

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Michael Rogers

Michael Rogers

Production Support

Joined during the making of "Breathfull" and has since worked across sound recording, casting, and location scouting on multiple productions.

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Nick McMullin

Nick McMullin

Makeup & Special Effects

A world traveler with a knack for improvising solutions on set. Has filled roles from makeup artist to special-effects technician across the crew's early and ongoing work.

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Shannon Van Durme

Shannon Van Durme

Production Designer

Background in stage and production management from professional and collegiate theatre. Builds sets, props, and costumes, and handles cues and choreography.

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