Fritz Donnelly’s ‘TOTHEHILLS2’ DVD Goes From the Streets to ‘AWESOME’It's always a great feeling when a new independent filmmaker gets his work noticed and Fritz Donnelly is a filmmaker and performance artist who has made his reputation by selling thousands of copies of his DVDs on the streets of New York City. It's a fact that many filmmakers survive this way and some even make a good living at it.
All you need is a large city where thousands of people pass by, a well-made film and a little bit of luck. Someone is always bound to notice you and pick up your DVD and maybe even buy a copy. It's important to have a really good cover and a hook to peak every person's curiosity.
Fritz Donnelly's sequel to the original TO THE HILLS features new, strange characters, striking cinematography in Williamsburg, Harlem, Bushwick, and every up-and-coming or down-and-going neighborhood in New York.
If you're sick, it will make you better. If you're down, TOTHEHILLS2 will bring you up. It's the first collection of short films to give the satisfaction of a full-length film while pushing the film medium to its limits. If you want new and different, you've come to the right place.
TOTHEHILLS2 is a collection of his short independent films about dreamers, professionals, hustlers, and “people like you and me,” as Donnelly explains it.
The important thing is to keep showing your work and talking about it and making sales. TOTHEHILLS2 was finally "noticed" and picked up by a dozen distributors through a discovery and distribution festival known as From Here to Awesome, and Manhattan socialites are taking note.
Last week Lee Black Childers, a celebrity and rock n’ roll photographer perhaps best known for being the assistant to the late Andy Warhol during the Factory days, left his own birthday party to attend “Read & Discuss the Articles in Playboy,” a party hosted by Donnelly and his girlfriend Christina Ewald at her hip Lower East Side performance space "HiChristina." Childers snapped numerous shots of party guests re-enacting Playboy photo shoots, and by the end of the evening, he had requested a copy of "TOTHEHILLS2".
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