I was always into the arts as a kid like I was always drawing and writing stuff and building things
So it just it was kind of like a natural progression for me
It was just like oh, I get to create with some new set of tools. Oh, okay, cool
I picked up like you know saw friends
You know old camera and let's make a little cheesy zombie movie. All right, and that was pretty much how it started for me
A lot of my stories are set in New York a lot of them when I want to make films a lot of them are set in New York
Because it's the city. I know it's the town that I know it's so
I'm always I'm obviously much more comfortable in New York
I wouldn't be opposed to taking a job out in Los Angeles or Toronto or
But for the most part, yeah, I would like to stay in NYC
This is home for me. I was born here. That's just in my family's all here
So so and and that's actually quite important to me to have my family close by because they're such a great support system
And my friends are also a fantastic support system and since we're all here
It just makes sense for me to stay here. I mean if I were to go out to LA I'd be on my own
And I would probably be just fine, but you know, it's
It's just not the same. So it's always it's always better when you have your you know when you have your friends and family around
But I've decided to pursue filmmaking at the age of 13
I was in my cousin's house. She had a bunch of her friends over and
She's like she comes out of her room. She's got this giant V
This is back when we everybody still watched VHS and she came up with this giant VHS cassette thing
And she's like, hey everybody's got to watch this movie and it was the evil dead
It was the original evil dead and sure enough we she put it in and for the next 80 plus minutes
Myself and all my cousins friends. We were all just like
We were just a mess of like laughing and screaming our heads off
And watching it and seeing it was very budget. It was obvious that it was very budget
But it was just I was so like enamored by it. I was just like, man, that's what I want to do
And sure and so that was pretty much where it started for me
I like the kinds of movies that I make because what I'm attempting to do is kind of bring the
the thought in terms of story and plot and creating
You know three-dimensional characters that you would expect in most kind of much more serious
dramatic or you know or personal films, but then also combine that with the kind of excitement and
And
terror and outrageousness of you know horror movies of like the 80s and stuff like that
The most recent filmmaking project that I worked on would be
My good friend Veronica DeFeo's her second short film called PMS currently editing editing that now
You never have enough materials obviously like, you know, we you know, love to do movie where it's just like
I'll be a fountain of blood smooth out the person and you know, we only have like enough for like maybe a gallon and so
So it's never never having enough materials or being able to afford the the proper materials to do the
To really kind of go for it, but I don't really think that stops us at all. I mean, we just get creative
Yeah creative ways to get around
Not having a lot of money for my feature film seo mac. There was a scene where a character gets stabbed in the foot
And normally this would be like a big prosthetic thing that would have like pumps in it and hoses and we couldn't really
I couldn't afford that it made the movie for nothing
So what I did is I went to the local halloween store and I got a fake foam rubber foot
And cut a section out and build a condom and put the condom in and in the section that got cut out and then put a sock over that
because he was in the socks in the scene when he was dying
It looks pretty good and uh, and uh, actually I was the one who stabbed it because we didn't have the actor at the time
So I had to put like the costume on just over my arm because it couldn't get any further up
And there I had the knife and I'm like, all right stab and stab through in it
And it kind of came up a little bit, but it ended up kind of soaking up through the bottom a little bit because it was foam
Oh, yeah, well, no, but you made it look good. I was I tried you made it work. I tried
We go to the halloween store a lot. Yeah, the halloween stores are our best friends
