LINKS

I thought I might try a narrative links page.

The first site we'll be looking at is Candlefish Pictures LLC, the online home of my very talented friend Andrew Kenneth Gay, B.A.  I primarily think of him as an excellent writer, although the son of a bitch is a great producer and director as well.  As of the writing of this links page, Andrew is the only one of my contemporaries who is a husband and a homeowner.  As such, he's the closest thing I have to an adult for a friend, yet he enjoys displaying lots of childhood pictures of himself.  He also has some animals, and is a fierce lover of smart TV shows and 80's Americana.  At his website, you will find filmmaking resources and info about his own projects and life.

Then I have another link to the website of a guy named Brian Feldman.  I first met Brian when he emailed me after seeing the casting notice for The Opera of Johnny Goodboy.  I tried to meet him at school to have him audition, but we couldn't get it together.  Later that same day, I coincidentally happened to attend a local film slam that was screening some shorts, one of which was directed by Brian Feldman.  So, for the first question of his Q and A, I asked him to sing for one minute, then immediately cast him in the role of Roommate.  His movie that day was ironically about an audition that goes awry.  At Brian Feldman: The Official Website, you will find comprehensive details about Brian's life.  He loves to make movies, have dinner onstage with his family, and be an extra in major motion pictures.

Then we come to some other guys I know.  James Dastoli and Robert Dastoli, who are twins.  Robert is older, but they always put James first because it's alphabetical.  In the early aughts, these guys started making short movies with their friends after school, and, to this day, continue to do so.  Right before I started film school, I read an article about them in a magazine, and I didn't realize it was them until months later.  They spent much of their college time wandering around my apartment talking about people and movies and Star Wars Universe and theme parks and Moe's and Expanded Star Wars Universe.  I shouldn't have to know who Ysanne Isard is, but I do.  All their movies are available for download on their website, Dastoli Digital.

I first came to notice Drew Lindo of Que Lindo Films at UCF Film because he was very tall and equally as loud.  He was one of the first people I started to hang out with socially.  After Film History class on Mondays, I would usually have lunch with him and Andrew (and a girl who was also in the class) and listen to him debate Andrew on things and make cutting remarks about Andrew's marriage (I suspect Drew was equally as fascinated by our married friend as I was).  This was fun, so I even came for the lunch one time when I had skipped the class.  We were also classmates in a Foundations of Story class, where we were forced to keep journals.  Drew's journal was a comic book journal that he penciled every week.  I remember one time he transcribed a conversation I had been present for, so he drew me into the scene.  All I did in the scene was sit there and look at the other characters, but it was cool that I was there.

One of my first memories of Ryan Pomeranz comes from the semester when everyone was taking Directing I.  Most of my friends were in one class, and I was in another, so I used to sit in on their class.  While introducing his first short, Ryan informed the class how bad it was going to be, but the short itself turned out to be pretty good.  I became very angry and raised my hand so I could tell Ryan not to tell me how to feel about his short.  Looking back, it was pretty uncalled for of me to waltz into his class and chastise him, and then write a sentence about it three years later with, like, two prepositions very awkwardly in a row.  But we are good friends now, so I have a feeling he'll let it slide.  He has incredible storytelling sensibilities and a very cool laid-back demeanor, although if you listen to what he's saying, he's actually very stressed out most of the time.  45-Year-Old Productions is the website that features work by him and some other people I don't know.  It's undergoing maintenance right now, calling to mind some righteous mid-90's website construction imagery.