Other Plans

DP Vitaly Bokser interviews Jesse Tendler about his past as a child actor, leading to his present as a Producer for Independent films.

Jesse started as kid acting in broadcast tv shows back in the 80’s such as “The Ellen Burstyn Show”. Eventually he decided to leave the business and pursue a degree… yes he actually went to college and studied business and engineering. During his time at school, his love for cinema got rekindled, and he came back both as an Actor and Producer on indie films.

One of those films, “Leaving Circadia” (that we both worked on), is making the festival circuit currently and gathering a lot of praise. If you actually want to see it, get some tickets its playing at the SOHO International Film Festival in NY May 2015. Heres a trailer below.

Another film we both worked on was “Other Plans” starring Jamie Kennedy. That film is currently planning a release this year in the states. Here is a trailer for that film.

“OTHER PLANS” – Trailer from Rock On! Films on Vimeo.

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I Interview Joe Eckardt about his long career in the film business. Starting out as a PA he worked his way up fairly quickly to working under some of hollywoods biggest actors, Nicolas Cage, Cuba Gooding Jr, and Val Kilmer. From that point on he went onto direct his own films and casting known talent basically at the onset of his directing career.

The films we cover here are and whats great is you can go buy them. Links included.

1. “Dreaming in Black and White” – One of his only shorts starring Malik Yoba

2. Champion, a doc about Danny Trejo.

champion. Trailer from Rock On! Films on Vimeo.

3. “High Hopes” which is a stoner type comedy with a long list of cast members we all know, Jason Mewes, Corin Nemec, David Faustino, Lacey Chabert, Edward Furlong, and the list goes on.

High Hopes Trailer from Rock On! Films on Vimeo.

4. “Yitzy” is short film he shot starring Jason Mewes and Alexis Suarez.

Yitzy from 3P’s Productions on Vimeo.

5. Lastly for this first part we touch upon “Pizza Man“, a superhero kids comedy, starring Frankie Muniz but really we delve into it in part 2 next week.

Pizza Man Exclusive NY Comic Con Trailer from Rock On! Films on Vimeo.

In each of these films Joe has managed to sell each film and bring an insight into the other-side of filmmaking that most indie filmmakers ignore – The Business side! Selling movies.

In Part 02 we continue our discussion with Joe and go further into how he got and made Pizza Man, a 2.5 million dollar film Joe Produced and Directed. We also discuss our latest film that we co-produced called “Other Plans” starring Jamie Kennedy.

“OTHER PLANS” – Trailer from Rock On! Films on Vimeo.

So for all those who care about such things have a listen and Im sure you’ll enjoy this POD.

Music for the podcast provided by www.bensound.com. Check him out.

POD 009: Jesse Tendler – Producer and Actor

POD 002: Joe Eckardt – Director – Part 01