Blatantly Subtle

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Wish I Had A Camera
A Joe Leonard Movie

This was the first Blatantly Subtle collaboration. Shot with a Canon GL-1 on the spring break of our senior year at NYU in 2002. The project was mostly improvised, and Robert Rossetti and Jill Frutkin share screenwriting credit. This was a great project because it brought Blatantly Subtle together and got everyone excited about making our own movies without waiting for someone to come along and ask us to...

Shoot Journal Run Time: 3 mins 20 secs

Cast/Crew: starring Jill Frutkin and Robert Rossetti. Music by Kaki King and Dominic Bartolini.

...everybody needs someone looking out for them...

About the Director

Joe Leonard ...a somewhat misdirected midwestern kid living in LA and working in post-production on indie features shot on HD. Joe graduated from NYU's undergraduate film program in 2002 and worked at the Criterion Collection where he was paid minimum wage to watch movies. Blatantly Subtle was an idea that became a production animal as soon as Joe bought a DV camera and his friends Sam, Bob and Jill got religion in the form of Final Cut Pro and ideas over beer mugs in the East Village. Last year Joe won the Richard Vague NYU Grant to direct his first feature film ("How I Got Lost") and participated in the IFP NY Emerging Directors lab with Scott Macaulay.