They’ve landed. We got them on film. Okay, not really film. Hi Def.
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Abigail Honor’s “Saints and Sinners” screened at CUNY TV Studios as part of the film series “Documented Italians” presented by the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute of Queens College. “The director’s talent lies in her ability to suggest different aspects of the theme without favoring one over another”, writes journalist Letizia Airos Soria in her column in IADP. “At the end of the screening, the audience was left with an overarching feeling of purity and simplicity.” Read more…

“The Girl Next Door”, a feature produced and shot by Persona’s regular collaborator, Bill Miller, is now available on DVD in stores near you. Firefox News calls it the “Year’s Most Disturbing Movie.”

Here’s the sixty seconds that took us three months to complete:
http://www.personafilms.com/arena

You can also watch it on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK8WSNtCIN4

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Peter Rosen’s “Who Gets to Call It Art?”, a documentary on the New York art scene of the 60s, filmed by Yan Vizinberg, will air on Sundance Channel on July 16th, 9:00pm ET. Watch David Hockney, Frank Stella and James Rosenquist recall their beginnings and discuss Henry Geldzahler, the first curator of contemporary art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, whose career spanned Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art and Minimalism.

We learned this and much more in Grace Hartigan’s studio in Baltimore while shooting the documentary about the artist whose friends included Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Larry Rivers.

Produced by Yan Vizinberg and Abigail Honor. Clothes designed by David Phillips.

One of my friends, who has recently finished building his house, likes saying, “There are bad people, there are very bad people, and there are contractors…” With this thought in mind we decided to expand our offices to accommodate a new top-of-the-line Avid Adrenaline editing suite. As construction is going full speed ahead, we’re learning all kinds of new things about sheet rock, metal studs and life in general.

“Flannel Pajamas,” a film directed by Jeff Lipsky and produced by our friend (and attorney) Jonathan Gray, opened last week at New York’s Angelika Film Center. Hollywood Reporter calls it “a thoughtful dissection of the courtship and marriage of two ultimately mismatched New Yorkers.”

Sometimes what we, at Persona, do for our clients goes way beyond production. Whatever their dream is, we’re here to sweat for it. Here I am (top row, second from the left) playing for the Lufthansa soccer team at the Red Bull corporate tournament at Giants Stadium.

One of the perks of working on a shoot for a major corporation, like Federated Department Stores (the owners of Macy’s and Bloomingdales), is being flown to the set on a corporate jet. No lines, no security, no need to dump your Grande Macchiato before you board the plane. It’s the way to get around. The problem is, once you try it, next time you fly business class you feel like Rockefeller at the Salvation Army Thanksgiving dinner.

Persona’s latest commercial reel is now available on DVD. To request a copy, fill out this form or email us at reelrequest@personafilms.com.

Meet Persona Films’ producers at Boards Summit, the largest commercial production conference in the world, that will take place at New York’s Marriott Marquis on October 24th & 25th.