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THE MARCONI BROS.-Michael Canzoniero, Marco Ricci, Michael Berenbaum
Highlights:
Anthony and Carmine Marconi, a modern day odd-couple, have been dutifully serving out life sentences in the family carpet business. Their opportunity to escape occurs during a routine carpet installation, when they meet Lou Burns the undisputed king of the Long Island wedding video business. Mesmerized by Lou's fast talk and leggy blonde 'secretaries,' the brothers hustle themselves jobs as his new assistants and set off to make it big in the "movie biz". This is the story of THE MARCONI BROS.
Happenings:
Cousins Michael Canzoniero and Marco Ricci's short film, Pishadoo, was well received on the festival circuit and was purchased by Canal Plus Europe, Sundance Channel, Atom Films and United Airlines. Their last short film, Hyper, was chosen for the Centerpiece of the New York Film Festival, where it opened for P.T. Anderson's Punch Drunk Love. This is their first feature as directors.
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Stay tuned for interviews with Harmony Korine (MISTER LONELY, JULIEN DONEY-BOY), Jim Sturgess (21, ACROSS THE UNIVERSE), Brendan Sexton III (THE MARCONI BROS., WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE), Kevin Corrigan (THE TOE TACTIC, RSO, THE DEPARTED), Mark Webber (EXPLICIT ILLS, DEAR WENDY), Lou Taylor Pucci (EXPLICIT ILLLS, THUMBSUCKER), Greta Gerwig (YEAST, NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS, HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS) and many, many more.
Also join us as we follows filmmaker Josh Weinstein at his first film festival with his first feature documentary, Flying On One Engine. We'll be with the young New Yorker as he navigates Austin, Texas, attempts to rally a posse around the film and, of course, take South by Southwest by storm. Will he survive the festival madness? Will he fill seats? Will he sell the film? FIND OUT HERE DAILY.
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