Looping

1991

Directed by Roger Paradiso

Screenplay byRoger Paradiso

Starring Ronald Guttman,Katherine Wallach

 

 

 

Winner Best Comedy Short Cinequest Film Festival

Winner Jury Award New York Expo

Honorable mention Worldfest Houston

Reviews

“AN ANGRY, CLEVER~ WELL INFORMED SATIRE OF THE MOVIE BUSINESS … ROGER PARADISO GIVES THE CINEMA BUSINESS A HILARIOUS ROASTING IN THIS WONDERFUL SHORT.”-Cinquest FF

 

I made an award winning short short about a Director who was hired to shoot a Mafia action movie and really wanted to do another movie. That “other” movie was an “art film” about a deadly fire in a sweatshop in Manhattan. Looping was a satire of our “business”. It did very well in the Festivals winning several awards.

Ronald Gutman, who played Gianni Fabrocini the Italian auteur, was both star and a small financier who enhanced my budget by paying for the Cast and Crew Party. It was actually the perfect role for Ron who was a New York character actor with a strong European accent. I told him we should make a full-length movie. He said he would finance it if we could do it for about one hundred thousand dollars but he had several conditions that would have not served the film well so we agreed to disagree.

Goodbye Ron. Goodnight moon. I’m sorry for both of us. I never pursued making this a full-length film. I am convinced it could have worked.

It was picked up by a company called Big Comedy Shorts.  I never got an accounting from them in their short stay in the distribution business.  Then one day I heard they went out of business. I can still see the full length film, but we never could raise the money so it is now a funny short film.