Commercial Acting Work

Acting is something I've always loved, and I had the chance to flaunt some of my acting chops (though they be minimal) in Florence, Italy for the 2006 NYU "30 Second Commercial Reel" class. While attending screenwriting courses, I collaborated with friends under the direction of professor, Amos Poe, to create some spur-of-the-moment, but nevertheless pretty ingenious specs.

There's a story behind each one, but I'll let you do the imagining. It was great fun, and I'm glad to see that all of them have been keeping up with their film work!

"Untitled Fragrance Commercial" 2006
Director: Jessie Hur

"Cornetta Ice Cream" 2006
Director: Asal Hejazi
Actors: Tara Rose Stromberg
Jessie Hur

"Hunt's Ketchup"
Director: JR Skola

You can see more specs from the class of 2006, as well as those from other years at Amos' site, pianospecs.com.

NYU 1st Run Film Fest

Alas, I was not able to see all of the films (maybe if some people had TOLD me ^.^;;), but I did make the 7pm Sunday, April 29th showing of four films, including this Bollywood musical/comedy (which was entertaining, funny and genuine):



Arranged"/Suraj Das
(Starring friend, and former Prague film colleague, Nardeep Khurmi, and edited by friend and Florence-colleague, Asal Hejazi!)

Also saw good ol' Amos there, back from Italy, and in his trademark fedora. Sadly, Nardeep, the star of "Arranged" wasn't there, and I didn't get to look around for anyone I knew, but I'm proud of you all and hope to god I can get my film done soon!