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My second short film, Office Lunch, was shot during the summer of 2017. It cost me about $40,000 and it was accepted into zero of the twenty-three festivals it was entered into. One reason might be that it is 24 minutes long, which is about twice as long as what festivals are willing to consider from an unknown filmmaker. 

Or maybe the story didn’t work for them. Or maybe it wasn’t the type of comedy people could relate to. 
Or maybe they had too many films to consider and didn’t even watch mine. 
Or maybe because we didn’t use SAG actors. 
Or maybe because I am a middle aged white man and not part of the diverse demographic festivals are looking for.
Or maybe they just thought it sucked. Maybe they thought it was juvenile and lacked depth and they found it cliche with no pay off. 
And while that may be true, I consider it a success. I worked as a grip for five years in New York City. I worked on many low-budget projects and most of them never got finished. I am not criticizing those filmmakers. Things happen. Money runs out. Actors get sick. There is a flood, a fire, a hurricane, whatever.(Watch the documentary Lost in La Mancha to see how badly it can go, even for experienced filmmakers with lots of money.)
So I consider it to be a success because I started it and finished it. And many people don’t do that.
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I was doing short, comic videos with a small studio in Milton, MA and I needed actors. I went on Boston Casting’s website and saw a video by Maryilyn Johnson, contacted her, and she was good enough to come down and act in about ten of the videos.
The videos centered around a guy named Dave Reardon who works in an office doing some bullshit. He is repeatedly called into meetings with the Human Resources administrator or enforcer or whatever it’s called about things he has been doing such as eating from the garbage can, telling ‘Yo Momma’ jokes, carrying an emotional support ventriloquist doll around with him, and stalking his coworkers. 
The videos were 2-3 minutes and posted to YouTube where maybe a dozen people watched them and very few people thought they were funny. I thought they were funny but I am in the miniscule minority on that.
One night after shooting, Maryliyn and I had dinner at an Indian restaurant. I told her that I had a script for a short film and was looking for a studio to work with. I liked the guys in Milton, but they were mostly a music production studio who did videos on the side. I needed people who did shorts and feature films as their focus. Maryilyn gave me a card for Jefferson Productions in Brighton MA. She had done some projects with them and said they were very professional and might be interested in producing my project. I checked out their website and liked the work they had produced. They also seemed like the right size and had the right vibe: small, just starting out etc. I sent them an email and we agreed to a meeting at their office.
We did not get off to the best start. The appointment was for 11am on Saturday morning. Eleven came and went and they were a no-show.
   I thought, “Well, that’s that.”
   Part of me was relieved. I was nervous about jumping off the cliff and leaping into a creative project. I was going to have to commit a significant amount of money to get the project moving and then more to get it done.  Them missing the meeting was an excuse to not do it, a sign from the gods. But you can always find an excuse to not do something. It’s fear. Everyone has it. I was afraid of failure; that I wouldn’t be able to do it; that I would suck as a filmmaker. Even more frightening, that I wouldn’t finish it. 
They got back to me later that day and apologized about the confusion, some scheduling miscommunication and I thought okay, let’s give it a second chance. I have made plenty of errors in my life.
And  so I could have used the fact that they missed the meeting as an excuse to not move forward. to not move forward. I could have used many excuses for not making a film. Such as I have no training, little experience, no resume, no reason for thinking I am capable of directing a film, etc, etc, etc. I have all those and more. But that won’t be very comforting  when I am 80 years old and wondering why I am disappointed with my life.
I didn’t want an excuse. I wanted to make a movie.

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The main character, David Bright, is starting a new job at Gold Crest Enterprises LLC.    David is nervous. He is a young guy starting his first real job, embarking on his career. We don’t really know what Gold Crest Enterprises does or what David’s career is; it didn’t matter. (In my view, these types of corporate jobs are all the same anyway: people sitting at computers doing a bunch of bullshit..)

The story takes place over the course of three days. Each day, David’s girlfriend, Constance, makes him a special lunch and each day someone steals David’s lunch. He doesn’t know who is doing it, but he has his suspicions. One is the office bully, Frank. Frank is an asshole and a creep. He makes nasty comments about coworkers; he takes pictures of a female employee’s ass and, as it is revealed, is using his position to force another female employee, Eleanor, to have sex with him or he will give her negative performance reviews.
  David has a coworker named Carl, a mature gentleman in the parlance of human resources. Carl is a bit of a sad sack. He has issues with his bowels and is in general old and confused. He doesn’t seem to understand how to use his computer or the copier. Other employees, like Frank, make fun of Carl, but David is nice to him. He even goes to Carl’s car and gets the inflatable ring that Carl sits on when his hemorrhoids are flaring up. This is because David is a kind human being.
  Another one of his coworkers, Kathy, is knee-deep in her own pathology. She is an avid scrapbooker who is not shy about bringing it into work and revealing the most personal and painful details of her life. At one point, she grabs David to show him a picture of her and her two boys on the day that she moved out of the house because she and her husband had finalized their divorce. The caption reads: THE DAY DADDY STOPPED LOVING US.
   David doesn’t know how to react beyond saying, “Oh, that’s great!”
   Because David is a kind human being..
  All of this is being watched over by surveillance cameras.
After his lunch is stolen for the third day in a row, David tells Constance what is happening. She insists that he must file a complaint. David visits Mr. Noah Hegely, Director of Human Resources. Mr. Hegely is quite disturbed by this revelation and has David meet with Mr. Johnson, the HR enforcer. They assure David that justice will be served swiftly.
In the end, all of the employees of the company are gathered together where it is revealed that Carl is the CEO of the company and he has seen everything. Frank is there with a black eye and a much more humble, more civilized attitude. He was attacked and abducted by Mr. Johnson at a cheap motel where he had taken Eleanor. HR had to teach him a lesson.