This movie wouldn't get made without that tenacity." That it is being made is a quirk of Hollywood luck. "Chris is the true unsung hero of this film," Manganelli said. He even became a fixture on city streets and at hockey games, handing out fliers, soliciting investors. Nakis, in fact, fought long and hard to find financing over a three-year period. He decided to shoot After Image in Rochester at the urging of his former RIT classmate Chris Nakis, one of the film's producers. He switched from still photography to filmmaking, studied film at UCLA, and developed his script at Robert Redford's prestigious Sundance Institute in 1992. Manganelli, an Allentown, Pa., native, has worked in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. "We're trying to get our exteriors done in May, because they say there's more sun in June." That's one reason we came here," he says. "My hope is that we get a lot of cloud cover and rain. Manganelli said they are shooting all interiors and exteriors in the Rochester area but plan to shoot most of the outside scenes in May. 1 rule: Don't look at the camera that's a guaranteed way to be cut from a film.) (If you happen to walk into an After Image shot at the market or on a city street over the next six weeks, remember the No. Hopefully, the public won't notice the camera until they're already out of the shot." "We're hiding our camera and using a long lens. "We're doing it on a real market day, with 20 or 30 extras mixing with the real people," Manganelli said. Thursday morning, the crew heads for the Public Market, 280 N. Filming is to begin at High Falls at about midday Wednesday. The production team, he said, hopes to make more movies here in the future, but much will depend on how well the public cooperates. "But please, please, come and be a part of this." "They must be well-behaved, quiet and cooperative," he said. Producer John Cocca says curious on-lookers will be permitted to watch filming, usually from behind barricades and with admonitions to be quiet at specific times. He meets and falls in love with a woman (Terrylene) whose psychic powers soon entangle them with an ominous killer (Michael Zelniker). Mellencamp plays a disillusioned crime scene photographer who has returned to Rochester to live with his aunt (played by Oscar-winning actress Louise Fletcher). The filmmaker, a 1983 graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology, will use city streets, alleys, the Public Market, the Charlotte harbor and other segments to bring his dark thriller to life. Virtually all of Manganelli's psychological thriller will be filmed in the streets and buildings of Rochester. The area's most successful film, Frank LaLoggia's 1988 well-received thriller Lady in White, was shot in rural areas around Lyons, Wayne County. Though a low-budget film by Hollywood standards, After Image is the most expensive, potentially mainstream movie ever to be shot within Rochester city limits. With any luck, it could put our community on the nation's movie screens within a year. The $1.4 million movie promises to turn Rochester into a mini-Hollywood for six weeks. They'll play a couple in a heart-to-heart conversation on the island just below High Falls, clearly visible from the Pont de Rennes pedestrian bridge and other sites on the rim of the High Falls canyon. Performing before his cameras will be singer-turned-actor John Mellencamp and actress Terrylene. (May 9, 2000) - With a call for quiet and the loud whack of a clapboard, director Bob Manganelli tomorrow will shoot scene one, take one of After Image at the High Falls on the Genesee River. Public can watch Wednesday as filming for Mellencamp flick begins at High Falls Thanks to John Mellencamp's site for news. Reviews at IGN, The Trades, Digitally Obsessed, and.
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