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Film Courage: I have a line of dialogue for you. “People are always going to want to see movies, Ma! Not just on TV or in the theaters.” That’s a line from your movie White Irish Drinkers. I love the film. The young protagonist Brian is trying to convince his working class mom [played by actress] Karen Allen that entertainment is important.
John Gray, Filmmaker: It’s true and it was also a poignant callback to the idea that we all know movie theaters are not going to be the only place to see movies and people are not always going to want to go to movie theaters to see movies. It’s a more idealized time. The film is set in 1975. I always find it poignant to see characters’ hopes and dreams from the point of view of the future where we know this isn’t going to happen. There’s another moment in the film where his girlfriend Nora is talking about her dreams of being a travel agent because she’s going to get to travel the world and she says to Brian People are always going to want to travel and they’re always going to need a travel agent to do it for them…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
BIO:
Brooklyn born John Gray is an award winning writer-director-producer of films and television, and the creator of the long running TV series, Ghost Whisperer. He has written and directed many feature films and movies for television, including White Irish Drinkers, starring Stephen Lang and Karen Allen; Martin And Lewis, starring Sean Hayes and Jeremy Northam; the Emmy® nominated A Place For Annie, with Sissy Spacek; the Emmy® nominated mini-series Haven with Natasha Richardson and Anne Bancroft; Helter Skelter, and many others. Gray has directed numerous episodes of broadcast and cable series, including multiple episodes of the NBC series GRIMM and was also the producing director of the CBS series RECKLESS. Gray’s acclaimed short films have played and are currently playing in film festivals all over the world including FRENCH KISS, which has also notched 6.3 million views to date on YouTube. He is married to writer-filmmaker Melissa Jo Peltier, and they make their home in New York and Cape Cod, MA. John’s new novel The Desecrated follows Jennifer, a college dropout hoping to regroup, who joins the night shift at the NYC Morgue.
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