ANITA TENERELLI AND THE EMOTIONAL QUOTIENT - CROWDFUNDING MOVIE PROJECT

If you have a look at my blog you'll find several posts dealing with my fascination with writers and actors. I really love the infinite chances a writer and an actor have to create life - or lives - through their art. 

That's why when I happen to really meet  talented ones in my life,  I feel blessed and urged to share their wonderful projects and achievements with all my friends online or in real life. 

I met Anita Tenerelli thanks to my sister - she is a friend of hers -  and I invited her, as a bilingual speaker of Italian and English,  to meet my students for an interview.  A native speaker is a rare guest in our little school but precious to our students of English as a foreign language. 

Anita meets my students 

Anita talked to them about her living and studying in Texas as as a teenager, after leaving the South of Italy with her family, and about her coming back to Italy as an adult, choosing Subiaco,  our little town surrounded by mountains not far from Rome,  to settle down with her American partner, Craig Peritz, an actor and drama teacher. 
Anita has mostly been working as a teacher of English and as a drama teacher here in Italy, despite her brilliant curriculum as an actress, and her dream is to write and make movies. The Emotional Quotient is the movie project she is working on right now. What about helping her and her team to make it come true? 

4 TIPS ON MAKING A SHORT MOVIE

(by guest blogger John Montana) Making a short film, or any film for that matter can be a lot of amazing fun. But most of the time, making a movie is very stressful and filled with problems. I recently made my most recent short film called HUNGRY…a wicked, humorous, little piece on the greed that is rampant at Christmas. I was able to shoot it in early February 2015. And I have to say… even tho I had prepared for everything, or thought I had, the shoot was very rough. Here are the major issues that came up and what I learned from it for my next shoot.

1.         Location

Location needs to be your first consideration when shooting your film. My film took place in a used clothing store, and I wanted the store to give the impression it had been there for many, many decades. So I set out to find the perfect shop. It took me about a week of driving around L.A. and looking at close to 15 shops. There were 2 that I thought “might do”…but nothing that reached pout and grabbed me. Until I happened upon the shop I ultimately shot in. It is an amazing location, one that I knew immediately was “The One”! So take your time and really look for the location that you want. Don’t settle for less, unless you absolutely have to.