NJ International
Film Festival
Presents
House of Stronzo
Sat, June 8 @ 5pm
Chronicles the quest of
Pete Cecere, one of the
preeminent collectors of
folk art and outsider art
New Brunswick, NJ
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line and she signed on within a
few minutes of getting my email.
She is a force of nature. Those
three raised my level of perfor-
mance as an actor and director.
They knew what they were get-
ting into. Keith and I were very
honest. We basically told every-
one that we would be staying in
my house for four days and we
would eat, sleep, and make this
movie, shooting about 20 pages
a day. They all jumped in head-
first and after Day One, we knew
were going to have a blast and
make a decent flick.
And you weren’t just behind
the camera, you wrote and act-
ed in the film. How much pres-
sure was that for you?
It was pressure on all six of us. If
any of us didn’t pull our weight,
the project would’ve failed. An-
nelise and Timothy had to bring
their A game. They knew I was
not going to have time to “di-
rect” them too much. They knew
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