Filming In Brooklyn

Guillermo Diaz has a resume about a mile and a half long.  He first came on my radar a couple of years ago via Weeds, one of my absolute favorite shows.  He plays a drug dealer who’s become an integral part of the main character’s (Nancy Botwin’s) life on the show.  Last season saw his [...]

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A couple weeks ago I sat down with Ahsaan Mitchell, a Brownsville native, who filmed a behind-the-scenes documentary about what happens to a neighborhood like Brownsville when a big Hollywood production moves in for the summer.   His is an amazing story: part luck, part imagination, part determination.  Most of all it’s about grabbing on to [...]

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