From the great, Teresa Lo, comes a documentary like none other. Mostly because no one else saw what she saw. After working with Teresa for about a year, photographing her open mics at the Good Nite, she asked me to help out on set of her documentary about L.A. and the comedy scene. She needed some help with production and some scripting stuff, mainly questions which I’m especially good at because journalism, but I was happy to help out in any way.
The film premiered at the Hollywood Independent Reel Film Festival and I got to see my name on the big screen which was something of a dream before, so I’m happy to have come all this way. Looking forward to more work on set!
The documentary covers the LA comedy scene, particularly its evolution in the past 5 years. Where open mics were ran by bartenders looking for more money and ultimately hurt comics because of a terrible system, Joe Manente of the Fourth Wall Comedy created his own place with a slot system that’s now ubiquitous across L.A. This is him getting his flowers.
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