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New shooting schedule for “Brooklyn”:
April 21st - May 24th, 2025
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'Brooklyn' aproved for Marché du Film during Cannes Film Festival! See you in Cannes!
 More info here: "BROOKLYN. hope.need.thirst."
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New York Governor approved and allocated for Daniel Strehlau's 'Brooklyn' a Tax Cut of 30% of 'Brooklyn's Budget!
 More info here: "BROOKLYN. hope.need.thirst."
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“BROOKLYN”
a narrative feature Reg. WGA, W - Nr. 1574537 & Library of Congress TXu 1-925-859
Production company: "Brooklyn the Movie LLC" Entitity No: 202357417158
IMDb about “BROOKLYN”:
IMDb LOG-LINE: Three different characters collide at the Brooklyn intersection; taking us on a life-changing journey in an urban melting 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 a profoundly moving fight after the lost of a dearest person and about the way to come back to normal life and to maintain it.
The script of “Brooklyn” was written in 1997 and the first story "Hope" was significantly updated in 2009 (registered again at WGA,W), additional small changes in 2nd and 3rd story were added in 2016 and 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 and US President Joe Biden, 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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  Ana De Armas & Luke Evans available!
   Ms. Jane Fonda available for my "Brooklyn" - Sarah Mayewski character!
The agent of Paul Dano confirmed Paul is available for shooting of "Brooklyn" 2025.
The agent of Jimmi Simpson confirmed Jimmi 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:
From June 10, 2021 till today, I prepared exclusively 95% of the full-scale production in New York State for planned shooting for the period of April 21st - May 24th, 2025, 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.
- Stars attached and interested in my BROOKLYN, in 1st, 2nd, 3rdcharacter roles in all three stories, such as:
Ana De Armas, Luke Evans, Jane Fonda, Paul Deno, Ken Jeong, Devon Diep, Beau Knapp, Irma-Estel Laguerre (Wokanda), Jimmi Simpson (April 5, 2024)
- 70+ extraordinary talents chosen and auditioned exclusivly by Daniel Strehlau:
Lenny Thomas, Marianne Goodell, Raye Levine Spielberg, Whitney McIntosh-Joseph, Coley Campany, Jared Johnston, Joe Maruzzo, Ilene Kristen, Clem Cheung, Maximo Masefield, David M Sandoval Jr. , Eric Bear, Candi Boyd, Michael Bakkensen, Jennifer Knox, Ken Holmes, Jack Sochet, Amy Chang, Robert G. McKay, Frank Rodriguez, Sibyl Santiago, Frank Bal, Tina WongLu, Ross Alden, Amy Mack, Stephanie Chloé Hepner, Amanda Brooke Lerner, Parish Bradley, Natalie Yale, Brian Adam DeJesus, Shelby Alayne Antel, Dwayne Moore, Paul Syre, Alexandra Merritt Mathews, Erik Potempa, Stephanie Pham, Buzz Roddy, Stephany Hitchcock, Anders Geipel, Kenneth De Abrew, Nancy Eng, Pepi Streiff, KB Park, Seth Abeita, Josh Daniels, Chérie Celeste Malone, Edward Furs, Maria Peyramaure, Sharon Little, Orion Phillips II, Valerie Terranova, Megan Ermilio, Mike Bash, George Katt, René Zara, Andrea Galata, Whitney McIntosh-Joseph, Christian Rozakis, Swen Temmel, Thea Schwartz.
- Cinematography by Praveen Elankumaran
- Production Design by Carl Sprague
- Script by Daniel Strehlau based on his 1997 script „Three Stories”
- Casting by Daniel Strehlau
- Editing by Daniel Strehlau
- Assistant director - Lissa Carandang-Sweeney
- Location scouting by Daniel Strehlau
- Storybord by Daniel Strehlau
- Pitch by Daniel Strehlau
- Transportation Departament by Daniel Strehlau
- Rigging – Rell Putt
- Fight stunt coordinator - Manny Ayala
- Driver Stunt coordinator - Frank Bal
- Attorney - Harris E. Tulchin
- 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.
- Cop Prop Rentals of NY by Joseph Fisher
- 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.
My 2016 storyboard version for 2016 unfinished no-budget short "Need" of "Brooklyn" and the scene in the Carnival Park and NYC subway:
