Tonight our short narrative film, Across the Pond, will premiere at Tropfest NY, the world’s largest short film festival at Prospect Park. It will be hosted by Liev Schreiber and some of the judges include Malcolm Gladwell and Academy Award winning Producer Fisher Stevens (The Cove).
I just want to say how incredibly proud I am of our writer/director/producer, Jessica Thompson, and our producer, Carlo Velayo. The 3 of us began this filmmaking journey together over 3 years ago, when we set out to follow our dreams, make films, and tell meaningful stories together. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever imagine us being on such a large stage, showing our film on the big screen to tens of thousands of people. I’m pretty sure Jess has dreamed about this moment ever since she was a kid, and for it to become a reality is so remarkable. There is so much beauty to be found in that. Carlo took a big leap of faith and moved to NYC months ago to pursue filmmaking full time. We started preproduction for Across the Pond before he even moved to NY, and I was actually in South Africa at the time. I’m practically crying thinking about how far we’ve come.
We have a team of incredibly talented, hard working dreamers, and I feel extremely lucky and fortunate to be a part of that. Last night, we had the opportunity to meet John Polson, the director of Tropfest who hand selects all the finalists, and he told us how much he enjoyed our film and our lead actor. It was a pretty special moment.
We hope you will join us tonight at Prospect Park to see our film on the big screen!
For more info visit: http://tropfestnewyork2013.eventbrite.com/
