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Martha Shane is a Brooklyn-based documentary filmmaker. From 2006 to 2008, she co-directed, produced, and co-edited the feature documentary Bi the Way, which had its premiere at the SXSW film festival in 2008 and debuted on MTV’s LOGO channel. More recently, Martha has been directing a documentary called After Tiller, as well as Make the People Happy, a documentary that follows New York novelty ragtime band the Xylopholks on a whirlwind tour of India. Both of those projects are now in post-production.
A life-long New Yorker, Dan Nuxoll grew up in Queens now lives and works in Brooklyn. He has been working with Rooftop Films since 1997 and has been Program Director there for more than 10 years. He has served on juries for Slamdance, SXSW, and the Independent Film Festival of Boston and developed partnerships with Hot Docs, SXSW, Camden International Film Festival, IFC, MoMA, Full Frame, MusisDoc Malmo, and many other organziations. On the rare occasions that Dan has time outside of his work for Rooftop, he works as a producer, composer, sound designer and director for films including the wildly entertaining feature documentary Kiss My Snake.
Ha! You guys do deserve an update, so we will send one out soon. We have been working on setting up our summer shooting schedule, as there are a bunch of interviews still to be done. But we will brief you more, soon. But in the meantime, there is one juicy little tidbit. Marie's husband Richie Castellano,--who ran the Narrowsburg International Independent Film Festival with her upstate until he was arrested and charged with fraud--was recently written about online. His cousin Vincent Coppola is working on a memoir and posted some really wild stories about Richie. You can read about them here: http://gowanuscrossing.blogspot.com/2012/04/my-cousin-richie.html
and http://gowanuscrossing.blogspot.com/2012/04/my-cousin-richie-part-ii.html
and http://gowanuscrossing.blogspot.com/2012/04/my-cousin-richie-part-iii.html
and finally here: http://gowanuscrossing.blogspot.com/2012/04/my-cousin-richie-conclusion.html
More coming soon!
Me too, or have you taken the money and ran?
How are things going so far? I'm fishing for an update :)
Well done, I really hope this gets made and isn't a scam - although that would be ironically meta
Just jumped my pledge from $15 to $30 .... I want that cable
Soo excited to see this CONGRATS!!!!
I love a good mystery! (And a good con man/woman story.) Good luck!!
Looking forward to this interesting concept which should/may mesh business, art, pursuit of meaning and struggles with personal demons all together. The proprietor of the Telluride Indiefest, Michael Carr, also went off the deep end in 2005 ( see http://www.indietalk.com/showthread.php…) so this may resonate and be part of a larger story.
Best, Roger
Thanks Paul. Yeah, once you have been swindled it changes the way you think about things for a long time. I hope it wasn't too bad for you, and thanks so much for your support. We really appreciate it.
Dan
As somebody who has trusted people and been swindled, I admire your respectful approach to this project.
Looking forward to the film, best of luck with funding! We've shared and helped you out.
I'm genuinely intrigued by this nut case, love a good con man/con woman story. Cheers.
I had a film play at the Queens fest and met Marie, so let me know if you want or need that perspective.
Best,
James
jamesfrancisflynn@gmail.com