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Learning By Doing: Producing My First Feature

Two men on a film set.Stephen Musumeci and Jim Cummings on the set of The Big Game

At nearly 6:00 a.m. on a Wednesday in late March, the sun began to rise in Tampa, Florida, and Stephen Musumeci called cut on The Big Game’s martini shot. The crew clapped and hugged, and Musumeci, who wrote and directed the feature, gave a short, dizzy speech that was interrupted by a producer pouring a large bucket of water (for lack of Gatorade) on his head. When I joined the film as a producer 14 months earlier, I firmly envisioned reaching this point, even though I had never produced a feature before. After reading the script, I’d immediately fallen in […]

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