“BROOKLYN”
a narrative feature Reg. WGA, W - Nr. 1574537 & Library of Congress TXu 1-925-859
News:
“BROOKLYN” at 2022 American Film Market, Santa Monica Ca:
IMDb about “BROOKLYN”:
IMDb LOG-LINE: Three different characters collide at the Brooklyn intersection; their hope, need, and thirst takes us on a life-changing journey in an urban pot. The feeling of injustice, existential problems of poor African Americans parents and rejection are the main idea in the first story - "Hope". The emotion of being in love, the sense of being together with someone is the main plot of the second story, "Need". The third story, a psychological drama, "Thirst", is about the sadness and sorrow after the death of a dearest person and about the way to come back to normal life and to maintain it.
The screenplay of “Brooklyn” was written in 1997 and significantly updated in October 2019. “Brooklyn: Hope, Need, Thirst” is an antiracist psychological dark dramedy triptych, which action takes place in 2019 and shows in the background the nationwide progressive movement of people inspired by Senator Bernie Sanders, which fits the pro-climate tone of my film, expected by so many viewers and the context of hatred inspired by Donald Trump.
The project is planned SAGAFTRA full budget.
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 drawn by Daniel Strehlau
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  Gerard Butler Robert De Niro
.jpeg) Ana De Armas interested in antiracist "Brooklyn"!
The agent of Paul Dano confirmed Paul is available for shooting of "Brooklyn" written, directed and acted by Daniel Strehlau
More info here: "BROOKLYN. hope.need.thirst."
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My 2022 sample of my 1134 shot descriptions for one of 271 Scenes together with my drawing storyboard sample, camera diagram & location footage:
My 2016 storyboard version for "BROOKLYN" for 2016 short "Need"
and the scene in the Carnival Park and NYC subway:
From June 10 to August 12, 2021, I prepared exclusively 95% of the full-scale production in New York State for planned shooting for the period of August 28th - September - October 6th, 2023, among others:
- As the director, writer, executive co-producer, co-producer, casting director, actor and editor of this film project I stay opened for collaboration.
- So far, as of July 5, 2022, all major-stars have been cast for all 20 characters, supporting actors were casted for all 54 supporting characters, day player actors were casted for all 39 characters, 9% of 307 feature extras and extras were casted. The entire cast was exclusively cast by me as Casting Director. They expressed interest in my Brooklyn.
- The following talents have expressed interest in even small characters in all three stories during time of my preparations in Summer 2021 - 2022: Gerard Butler, Robert De Niro, Ana De Armas, Francesca Scorsese, Holly Gagnier, Jack Black, Oliver Platt, Ken Jeong, Beau Kapp, Algee Smith, Henry Ian Cusick, Paul Dano, Ilene Kristen and others
- Kim Allen Kluge & Kathryn Kluge ("Silence") interested in music score.
- 47 locations were found and scouted exclusive by me, even for camera and actor positions in NYC, Brooklyn, Long Island, and Nanuet, NYS, including steps of Spike Lee home in Brooklyn, several hundreds of photo documentations was made by me.
- Set builders from ARGON PROPS for shooting in studio (Be Electric) in NYS are ready to build multiple set.
- I provided written descriptions of my ideas for production design of all locations: interiors and exteriors
- Detailed shooting schedule was created on Yamdu platform.
- Props vehicles, like MTA bus, Subway car, Police units, e-motor and more were found by me to rent for production.
- Special effects equipment for car accident was found by me to rent.
- Stunts and doubles were found by me to hire.
- Storyboards for first 8 minutes of the movie was created by me, descriptive storyboard with elements of my drawings for all of 1134 shots for 271 scenes were created by me between August 2021 and January 2022.
- The collaboration with NYPD film Units and Riverhead PD units was established by me.
- The insurance broker provided the proposal of the insurance for the film to apply for city permits.
- The management of City Parks is ready to secure access for film shooting.
- A detailed draft budget has been created by me, executive co-producer, whose cash & non-cash contribution work was valued for about 10% of the total cash and non-cash budget.
- I created description for all characters together with objectives for the actors.
- Table of cast proposals was created for all characters, minors, background actors, extras and their replacements – 286 pages
- I created my director's notes, how to work with actors, which will be developed and implemented in the period of cooperation with individual actors, using their emotions, feelings, temperament, personality, etc. adequately to the emotions, feelings, temperament and personality of my characters. On the level of collaborating with my actors, the goal is to create boundaries between characters and actors through objectives - inner actions etc.
- January 2022, I completed descriptive storyboard and diagrams with camera and actor positions on all sets together with descriptions of props, wardrobes and design for locations. I am not a storyboard maker or cartoonists.