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Brooklyn filmmakers Desmond Andrews and Tracey Platero
Desmond and Tracey are Brooklyn-based artists whose short film Significant Other was screened during the 41st Brooklyn Arts Council International Film Festival at the Brooklyn Museum.
Desmond Andrews is a native of London, England and has spent more than a decade in NYC theatre circles acting, directing and producing a variety of off-Broadway productions, and working on independent films. He is strongly influenced by Mike Leigh, Elia Kazan, Tennessee Williams, Harold Pinter, Vincent van Gogh, and Miles Davis. Significant Other marks his debut as an independent film director and producer.
Tracey Platero was born and raised deep in the Adirondack Mountains with an ingrained love of the natural world. Inspired by the brilliance of Lucille Ball, Ellen DeGeneres, Sting, Franz Marc, Henry David Thoreau, and Mark Twain, and encouraged by other teachers, poets, filmmakers, musicians, family and friends, she endeavors to create images of inspiration through writing, acting, photography, painting, and filmmaking. Significant Other marks her first film.
Significant Other is a story about love not fulfilled and yet not lost that spans more than 50 years. Two people are pressured to make painful choices by society’s temperament, not their own.
Silverhill Films, their production company, was honored to have their film chosen for the November 2006 New York International Film Festival, after which they were asked by the Cultural Embassy of Amsterdam, Holland to allow the guests of the Embassy at the LLoyd Hotel to view Significant Other for the month of December in 2006. In 2007 Significant Other also won an INSIGHT Award for Excellence in Social Commentary alongside John Stewart and other notable award winners in their 2006 winners circle.
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Desmond Andrews is a native of London, England and has spent more than a decade in NYC theatre circles acting, directing and producing a variety of off-Broadway productions, and working on independent films. He is strongly influenced by Mike Leigh, Elia Kazan, Tennessee Williams, Harold Pinter, Vincent van Gogh, and Miles Davis. Significant Other marks his debut as an independent film director and producer.
Tracey Platero was born and raised deep in the Adirondack Mountains with an ingrained love of the natural world. Inspired by the brilliance of Lucille Ball, Ellen DeGeneres, Sting, Franz Marc, Henry David Thoreau, and Mark Twain, and encouraged by other teachers, poets, filmmakers, musicians, family and friends, she endeavors to create images of inspiration through writing, acting, photography, painting, and filmmaking. Significant Other marks her first film.
Significant Other is a story about love not fulfilled and yet not lost that spans more than 50 years. Two people are pressured to make painful choices by society’s temperament, not their own.
Silverhill Films, their production company, was honored to have their film chosen for the November 2006 New York International Film Festival, after which they were asked by the Cultural Embassy of Amsterdam, Holland to allow the guests of the Embassy at the LLoyd Hotel to view Significant Other for the month of December in 2006. In 2007 Significant Other also won an INSIGHT Award for Excellence in Social Commentary alongside John Stewart and other notable award winners in their 2006 winners circle.
Learn more about Silverhill Films
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Significant Other dir. Desmond Andrews
(Brooklyn Filmmakers, Brooklyn Museum, Saturday May 5, 2007)
Significant Other dir. Desmond Andrews
(Brooklyn Filmmakers, Brooklyn Museum, Saturday May 5, 2007)
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