Inspired by the classic movie theaters of cinema’s golden age, Reel Love is a romantic comedy short film that explores the difference between how love has been portrayed in movies vs. how it works in real life. Starting John Salandria as Michael, Bridgett Lynn Luevanos as Cindy and Dan Berg as Kevin, Reel Love is written, directed and produced by Paolo Grassini and Carlton Gillespie. The film is currently in post-production, scheduled to premiere in late 2021.
Michael, a hopeless romantic film projectionist, stumbles upon a magical film projector that takes its audience into the movie. After discovering this, he runs off and cuts together an epic film montage of all the most romantic scenes in cinema in order to make the girl he’s been secretly in love with fall for him.
As the Editor, I also performed VFX work for two sequences which aim to recreate scenes from classic films like It’s A Wonderful Life, Gone with the Wind, and Casablanca.
Roles
Producer
Co-Writer
Editor
