Developing stories that I can connect with on an emotional level is my nirvana. Storytelling is the most powerful way to communicate and has the potential to change lives. It can make you laugh and it can bring you to tears.
The Dons
-Writer/
Director
Based on a popular Australian book written by Archimede Fusillo
Paul is trying to escape from an Italian heritage that just doesn't seem to have relevance for him any more, and he's trying to escape from his nonno. They come from two different worlds, he and his grandfather, and Paul is more interested in his own world – his friends, the girls, the fast cars, the go-carts – than Nonno's strange and embarrassing behaviour. But there is one big problem – Nonno is losing his mind.
The Cook and the critic
-PRODUCER/
Director
Lorenzo Messina is a third-generation Italian American chef toiling in his family’s New York pasta joint. The family lives on a shoestring budget, selling heaping plates of spaghetti and meatballs when a food blogger writes a damning review.
The funny and snarly review quickly goes viral costing Lorenzo his pride and his last customers. Lorenzo heads to a Villa in Umbria, Italy where a food festival during truffle season is underway. There he meets Toni Trim, a beautiful woman from his neighbourhood. Together they reconnect to their roots, discover the true meaning of good food and fall in love.
In the vein of Chef, Big Night and The Hundred-foot journey.
The Epiphany of Faye
-Director
Written by Gregory Scott Houghton and produced by Steve Straka
The sole guardian of her mother's ashes, an eccentric graphic novelist finds herself on a precarious adventure with a homeless dog and an ex-convict to execute her mother's last dying wish days before a long-awaited, life-changing event.
Our Frankie
-Director
It's 1965 and Frankie's dream of being a singer come true but he soon realizes that being famous won't win the heart of the woman he loves.