Dan Farah

So I saved up shoveling snow in the winter and mowing lawns in the summer to buy a camera, a Super 8 camera and a 16 millimeter camera and to buy film and a little splicing machine, a little editing splicing machine.

Like before digital editing, you literally had to like cut the film, right?

And so-

I wrote, directed, produced, and edited these little short films that my neighborhood buddies would star in.

One of my best friends, shout out to Phil Desjardins and Dan Gomez.

Yeah, they...

my buddies growing up would play these roles I would give them.

A few times I convinced like local police department guys to participate.

And we would do, I remember one, this is actually hilarious.

There's this one short film I made where

two buddies of mine, Phil and Dan, they rob a 711.

And it's like in the movie in this little short, it's just like a it's like a heist little three minute heist, right.

And I wanted a police car chase.

So at the time, I was working at the local pizzeria working the counters like things like probably freshman year in high school.

The cops came in and they'd always eat really cheap.

The role was the owner would let us charge cops 10 bucks no matter what they ate.

They could get $30 worth of food, 10 bucks.

And so they liked us.

And I remember I asked Officer Tim Durkin, shout out to Officer Tim Durkin.

I remember asking him, I said, hey, will you participate in this police chase in my short film?