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Behind the Curtain © 2004 Writer / Director: Alvero Ron
Producer/s:
Rita Rani / Alvaro Ron
Cinematography by
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Robert C. Webb
Very Special Thanks For Their Contribution:
Shot in
Culver City, Beverly Hills and Hollywood 2004
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Monday, January 10, 2005 The Uninvited | |
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During the first read through meeting for The Immigrants at the LA Film, school, I noticed Rita Rani passing in the corridor! She happened to glance into the small meeting room and spotted me as well. She and I hastily mouthed back and forth, her indicating having my Behind the Curtain DVD copy, but as I thought I had a next-night rehearsal we agreed she'd bring it with her then. It turned out my information was off: we were rehearsing the following week (eight days from then, not the next night). I got home to see I didn't have Rita's number handy, so I emailed her and she didn't get back to me. | |
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One thing Rita also was unable to impart to me during that nearby encounter was it turned out there was a scheduled evening screening of
Behind the Curtain
around that time.
I do not (yet) have the exact date, but today (January 10th) when I was updating my payment information at
Hollywood OS,
John
told me he had seen (me in)
Behind the Curtain
at an evening screening "a few weeks ago" at the LA Film School!
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I can't help but really wish I'd have known/been notified about that screening... |
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Sunday, March 20, 2005 DVD and Film Festivals | |
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I received an email from Rita this evening...
I replied with my information before checking online for the festivals. The search aspect at the Beverly Hills Film Festival site is not yet functional, and a google search for the Rome International Film Festival turns up several festivals such by the same name. D'oh. | |
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Sunday, April 10, 2005 Film Festival links provided | |
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I received a pleasant and unexpected email today...
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Poster for "Behind the Curtain" |
Cool! Thank you thank you!
Well, I may not have enough spare cash to flit to Italy but I can certainly make it to Beverly Hills!
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Wednesday, April 13, 2005 DVD received... sort of | |
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The DVD for Behind the Curtain was in my rental box. Unfortunately once home I found that there were substantial problems with the copy and I emailed Rita to notify her of same; requesting and notifying her I would be bringing this copy with me Friday, hoping she can provide at that time a working replacement. Weird. | |
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Friday, April 15, 2005 Beverly Hills Film Festival |
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Earlier in the afternoon while at my day-job I got paged from Carla of Headquarters Casting asking my availability for another Under 5 bit for the ABC late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live. I told her I was available and she indicated it was an Accountants Gone Wild sketch which would be filmed on Monday. |
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Earlier in the week I'd ordered a ticket for the film festival, and I arrived for the 6pm program block of short films around 5pm, having bused there straight from work.
A beaming and clearly excited
Alvaro Ron
was already there, to my slight amusement he seemed surprised I was so early.
He is preparing to scoot over the Atlantic for the
screening in Italy
at the end of April.
Alvaro gave me an awesome colour postcard of the
Behind the Curtain
poster, about which he said the cards had only been completed a few days before, making Sending Them Out In Time to really notify anyone about the screening predictably problematic.
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They didn't start giving out tickets until about 5:40.
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Jacques Chan as Mr. Bloomberg |
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We were let in around 6:15 or 6:20pm.
An event photographer was taking photos: I realized this mostly after I'd passed so currently I'm not sure if I had a photo taken (I'll keep checking
their site).
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While we were waiting for the program to begin, my always-on-vibrate pager notified me of a message.
Once I'd checked, I was able to relay to the Chan clan that I'd
been booked for the
Jimmy Kimmel Live
gig about which I'd told them in the hallway.
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The directors that were there (one of the seven wasn't), were brought up and introduced.
Each gave a little thank you for the attendees.
Most of them neglected to re-introduce themselves once at the mic, so you weren't sure which film the Hard Work of which they were praising.
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Beverly Sanders as Jessica Zielinski
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Dr. Al Charlens as Jacek Applebeaum
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Marlon Grace
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Rita Rani
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"I thought you were ready..."
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Waiter's Ticket
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Afterwards we did our little ballot tearing and turned them in as we went back into the lobby, this time the photographer being a little more noticeable.
We also had a Who Was There Of The Cast And Crew photo of us taken in front of the full size poster, a copy of which I was told would be emailed to me.
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Monday, April 25, 2005 Beverly Hills Film Festival results |
I received an email this morning from Alvaro, indicating that the
Beverly Hills Film Festival
site had been updated;
that
Behind the Curtain
did not win: the winner was a German comedy --
The Aryan Couple
directed by John Daly.
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More as it progresses...
further film festivals, et al... |
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