Carlo Fiorletta - DETOURS clips

Carlo Fiorletta & Deirdre O'Connell in DETOURS

I recently needed to put together a short video of Carlo Fiorletta's best scenes from DETOURS, and decided to share it here as well.  The first scene features the wonderful Deirdre O'Connell ; she is best known as a theater actress in NYC, and can be seen in Showtime's series "The Affair."  The second scene - truly one of my favorites -  is with the terrific Tara Westwood, who plays Carlo's daughter in the movie. 

You can see DETOURS on Saturday night July 16 at the Long Island Film Expo in Bellmore, Long Island and on Sunday September 18 at The Strand theater in Lakewood NJ. More screening dates coming (very!) soon.

DETOURS next screening: Sat July 16 at the Long Island Int'l Film Expo

Next up for DETOURS is the Long Island International Film Expo - we're thrilled to be an official selection. The festival takes place at the Bellmore Playhouse on Long Island; Detours screens on Saturday night July 16 at 9:40 PM.

The screening will be followed by a q&a with stars Tara Westwood and Carlo Fiorletta, shown at left in a scene from the movie.

Tickets are $8 each, and can be bought on line from the link below or at the door, subject to availability.

http://longislandfilmexpo.com/event/detours/

Paul Sorvino at the DETOURS Premiere

Mara Lesemann, Tara Westwood, & Paul Sorvino

It was wonderful to have DETOURS cast member Paul Sorvino join us and a wonderful full house at the Muvico Theaters for our premiere at the Sunscreen Film Festival in Saint Petersburg, FL. Paul is best known for his work in the classic mafia film Goodfellas and we love having him play charming coffee shop owner Joe DiMaria.  Tampa Bay Times' movie critic Steve Persall moderated a terrific question and answer session after the movie.

A great crowd turned out

DETOURS Premiere at the Sunscreen Film Festival

Gary Busey & Tara Westwood

DETOURS had a wonderful premiere this past Saturday at the Sunscreen Film Festival in Saint Petersburg, Florida!  We had the pleasure of shooting the climactic scenes of the movie in the area - including on Tampa Bay - and it was great to be back.

I traveled with our wonderful star and my fellow producer Tara Westwood; we were both thrilled with how well-organized and well-attended the festival was.  It helped that we were interviewed by the lovely folks at Tampa news station Bay News 9 - quite a few people told me that they came out because they saw the interview, which you can check out here:

We had an enthusiastic and near-capacity crowd for our screening at the beautiful Muvico theater in downtown Saint Petersburg - the movie looked and sounded fantastic.

Tara was on a terrific panel on acting with Oscar-nominated actor Gary Busey, who was at the festival with his new feature Candiland. We both had the pleasure of participating in a panel on Women In Film, which was moderated by Linda J. Brown, head of the Cinematography Department at USC and director of the wonderful documentary You See Me. 

It was a great weekend, and we've got more DETOURS screening news coming soon!