I became acquainted with Elena Gorsheneva in April, 2007 during a weeklong art course called “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain”. I told her that my friend, Michael Koy and I were taking acting classes at the George St. Playhouse in New Brunswick, NJ. I introduced her to Michael over lunch one afternoon. She mentioned that she would be taking a course at the Digital Film Academy and would like us to audition for her student film. We auditioned and I got the part of the German Reporter and Michael got the part of the police officer. This would be my first acting gig and I was definitely up for the challenge.

However, I never spoke German (more…)

Working with Elena and everyone was a blast. I was thingking how it takes a lot to make people stop and look in New York City, but we certainly drew spectators with our comotion and costumes. The expression on peoples faces when they see a cop sprawled out with a toilet on his head is priceless. I think their next thought is”man, I’d like to see this movie!”

Nick Denning

	Directed, written and edited by Elena Gorsheneva

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Rob Hunter, Nick Denning, Dennis Hurley, Marlon Dow, Pamela Ehn, Philomena Zito, Michael Koy

in the short film Red Tomatoes Crosswalk

Directed, written and edited by Elena Gosheneva

The story begins with Grandmother (inner voice) warning Steve not to eat red tomatoes and not to drive. Steve dismisses her, then decides to visit a car dealer to test-drive a car. In the meantime, a designer of toilet bowls gets an emergency call to deliver a bowl to a customer right away. Pulling his bowl in a cart, he walks toward his destination and comes to an intersection, where he gets into a dispute with Steve and a vegetable vendor. A police officer on the scene slips on a tomato, then tries to break up the dispute and gets knocked out by the toilet bowl, which falls off the cart. As the characters try to deal with the situation, a criminal reporter comes along and complicates things.

Michael Koy