Thus far I'm very pleased with the dailies and am looking forward to editing the piece. But more than the final product, I'd say I'm the most pleased with how enjoyable the process has been. The cast and crew have worked very hard and we've all had an absolute blast along the way. I sometimes wonder if filming a comedy has something to do with the higher likelihood of positive attitudes on set!  I don't have much to compare this to, seeing as I don't write or direct many comedies (the reason being that I'm not entirely sure I'm very funny!). But this really felt like the right combination of creative brainpower, and so the comedy just came naturally both onscreen and off. Performances were dead-on, and Josh deserves lots of praise for riding that bike so naturally with an additional ten pounds of camera mounted to the front (that, and for developing such an outstanding, memorable character)! All in all, this was really everything I could have asked for and more, thus reminding me why I'm doing this in the first place. 

Also, it should be noted that Anthony Pizzuto, who is one of the fantastic web designers who worked on this site, jumped in at the last minute to give a rousing performance as Louie, the angry florist. Many thanks to Tony for coming in and giving us such great footage to work with!

Thanks to all who came to help this past weekend.  It was truly a pleasure to work with every single one of you and I can't wait to shoot our final scene and start editing so you can all see it as soon as possible!

So welcome one and all to my filmmaking website, on which you can watch videos of recent projects, see on-set photos and festival pics, see what I'm working on next, and catch up with Passage Pictures and all we've been up to!  

A word on Passage Pictures:  Passage Pictures began as a student-run film and video production company at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and is now a growing creative collective among recent NYU grads, current students, and New York as a whole.  My hope is to involve as many talented filmmakers, writers, cinematographers, actors, designers (you name it!) as we continue to produce for both the process AND the product.  The young, up-and-coming generation of entertainers has so much to gain from consistent collaboration, which is why I like to refer to Passage Pictures as a 'creative collective' first and foremost, before calling it a 'production company'.   I sincerely hope you'll get in touch with us at PassagePictures@gmail.com and jump on board for our next project!

Next week, I'll be diving headfirst into production for Passage Pictures' newest short, "The Boy with the Bike", which I wrote and will also be directing.  We will be shooting in the Morningside Heights area this coming weekend; we'll be the ones in the newsboy caps and pin-up girl curls (it's a 1940s period piece).  "The Boy with the Bike" is the story of a flower delivery boy named Baxter who is madly in love with Roxanne, a girl he passes on his delivery route every day but can't find the nerve to have a conversation with.  His alter ego/imaginary friend, a disembodied voice named Barnaby, cheers him on and tries his best to give the awkward young man some advice about women.  When Baxter finds out Roxanne is moving, he thinks it's all over...until a lucky run-in changes everything (I love my lame puns).  To get the full jist of what I mean...I guess you'll just have to wait till the video hits the web! :)  The film will star Josh Luria as Baxter and Dianne de la Veaux as Roxanne, as well as Montgomery Sutton as Roxanne's womanizing boyfriend Ricky and Derek Calibre as the temperamental florist Baxter works for.  Behind the camera with me I'll have the wonderful Ye-Jee Kim as director of photography and a crew of insanely talented NYU grads and current students.  Looking forward to the suspender-sportin' action. :)

Will update when production wraps with a play-by-play of the shoot and some pictures!  Stay tuned, and thanks so much for visiting my new site!