Noir Fest in Courmayeur

Marco and Antonio Manetti, or the Manetti Bros as they are known, gave me a great tip to come up to the Courmayeur Noir Fest in the Aosta Valley. While the winter wind chilled us, and the snow coated the city and streets with a dusty white, the dark side of cinema was being shown [...]

A wrap in Bologna

That’s a wrap in Bologna, where I finished playing “Bob” who like Elvis needs no last name. An American agent who mistakenly renders the wrong man, but is only concerned for saving his ass, he is like a mix between George Bush and James Bond, a dangerous combination. It was great working with the Manetti [...]

Surprising Italian Football fans

My first day on the set of the film “L’Ispetorre Coliandro-Cous Cous Alla Bolognese” I got a great surprise. As I was preparing to shoot my first scenes for the cult directing team the “Manetti Bros”, Marco and Antonio Manetti, I was going through my warmup, as my character “Bob” is seen jogging through the [...]

Too much politics, not enough pasta

As I’ve been watching the political season get crazier here in LA, I am getting ready to head back to Italy.  My company MagmaWave will be starting some new projects in the fall, and we will be editing the “Making of” documentary for the series “Il Bene e il Male” that I shot in July. [...]