Dan Farah

you know, he did like, he wore a bunch of hats.

He would like edit them and direct them and produce them.

And then his friends would be in them.

Um, his family members would be in them.

And so I was inspired to do the same thing.

So like, I didn't, I didn't have any, we didn't have a lot of money growing up, um, you know, normal, like, you know, middle-class in Jersey.

And, um,

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.