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Just Short of Having Your Name In Lights!

One of my colleagues is a filmmaker and his first feature (he was co-producer) plays in the Tribeca Film Festival tonight!

The story of how he came to be a filmmaker is much more inspirational than he lets on, so I'll follow suit and just give you the brief rundown.

- Attended University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, studies Physics and Electrical Engineering, runs cross-country and track (all that's like three full-time jobs if you add it all up)
- Worked in Chicago for a year as an analyst for Ernst & Young consulting
- Moved to Boston, co-founded a company, worked on that and then for another company for a few years
- Figured out what he really wanted to do -- tell stories through film that moved people to be better than they are -- and moved to New York to learn how

That was a few years ago. A lot of long hours, a few short films in the books, in and out of a little debt to finance his dreams (what guts!), and here he is today, telling me his first feature is playing tonight in a bigtime film festival.

Perhaps the most telling sign of how cool all of this is...I looked up the film, Red Doors, on imdb.com and it had the movie poster in the picture gallery. And, sure enough, his name is spelled out in the lower-left corner of the poster in those funky, super-skinny (appropriate for Hollywood, I suppose), super-tall letters "co-producer JOHN FIORELLI."

Click here to see the movie poster.

Click here to see John's website.

Posted by Ian Ybarra on 22 April 2005

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