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Whether you want to be a Hollywood producer, or just wonder what it’s like to work in the film and television business, these posts will lift the veil on the “black art” known as producing. In other words, you’ll finally know what a producer actually does.
I’m proud to say that Dying to do Letterman won a top prize at The Cleveland Film International Film Festival. The final prize of the night, the Greg Gund Memorial Standing Up Film Competition, which includes a $5,000 prize, went to us. I was rolling on my flip cam, but then so completely lost in … Read more
Little sleep, too much caffeine, and no Joke to reel us in? Sounds like trouble! Check out me and Steve doing our best to talk Dying to do Letterman at the Cleveland International Film Festival:
First screening in Cleveland, at 2:30pm today, sold out. This was the audience reaction: Thank you Cleveland.
In a pinch, a good newspaper review and tape make a handy ad for your movie. Here at the Cleveland International Film Festival, we received such a great review in The Cleveland Plain Dealer that I’ve made myself into a walking billboard. Seems to be working. And if you missed it, we got to go … Read more
So cool…were interviewd by Cleveland legend Robin Swoboda on the local NBC nightly news, discussing our film Dying to do Letterman and its screenings at the Cleveland International Film Festial. Shot this on our flip cam off the hotel television as it aired.
We’re at the Cleveland International Film Festival! And this fest has some incredible people working at it. Lara Klaber, lead blogger for CIFF, was kind enough to get up an initial post about our movie. You can read it here. Our “street team” (Steve, Biagio, Biagio’s dad, and Biagio’s nephew Anthony) are passing out buttons … Read more
Catch our new show this summer on the fabulous “always on, slightly off” IFC. Commercial Kings with YouTube sensations Rhett and Link begins airing June 24th. Rhett and Link have hoped to do this show for a long time. After teaming up with Reveille (the studio behind The Office and The Biggest Loser) they sold … Read more
If you’ve been around the blog, you know how proud I am of my Cleveland roots. Well, April 1, 2, and 3 of this very year, we’ll be living a life-long dream: playing one of our movies at The Cleveland International Film Festival. CIFF (as it’s called by the cool kids) is one of Cleveland’s … Read more
We’re so proud to tell you that our feature-length documentary Dying to do Letterman won both the jury prize for Best Documentary Feature and the Audience Award at the Cinequest Film Festival. Here are some video highlights from one of the greatest weekends of our lives:
One thing you simply cannot control about the projects you produce, direct, edit…no matter how hard you try…is audience reaction, or press response. We’re fortunate that thus far, on our film Dying to do Letterman, we’ve had very positive reviews on both…and we’d like to say THANK YOU Yes, we know we’ve blitzed you with … Read more