“From Pocket to Projector: Discover How Jamie Grefe Filmed Two Movies on His Phone!”
Ashley
Yeah. Now you mentioned that you met your, you mentioned that you met your actress at a premiere. Maybe you can talk about that. Do you have sort of a, a bunch of people you’ve now met in LA. So, you’re always trying to go out. If they have a screening of their movie, you try and go out and check it out. Maybe you can talk about that a little bit, just doing those networking events in LA and meeting people like this actress.
Jamie Grefe
Absolutely. Yeah. And let me give him a plug to let me tell you. So the movie that I met her at was called We Are Wolves, which is directed by Rich Mallory, who is another director who worked with Greg and Rich was like, and I and I assistant directed on that movie. So, he did the premiere of that movie. And I went and she was there. I think her friend VMA was in that movie at the end, and Mariana was just her friend. So, it was just very serendipitous. Now the question do I go out to movie premieres and all that? I mean, actually, I don’t. I mean, would I? Yeah, I mean, I would if I was running in those circles. I think it’s fascinating. You know, it’s a really fun experience to go see your thing you’ve worked on, on the big screen, there’s that. And then second of all, when you go to a premiere, I mean, you are going to meet other actors, you’re going to meet maybe producers, you’re going to meet writers, directors, you don’t know who’s going to be there. And that right there alone is very satisfying. You know, so these, these are smaller premieres. I mean, remember, there’s movies happening all the time. And there’s little premieres happening. They’re little like premiere parties, really, if you think about it. So, I mean, I would go if but my network is just not that huge either. Like, I can’t always be going out. For the most part, I don’t go out. I don’t push myself out into projects that I guess I’m not a part of unless I’m invited. Even then I’ll really think like, you know, what is it? Do I really want to go? But I do see the value. Absolutely. I see the value, if you’re social, and you want to get out there. But I think the thing that was really key with me was, I wasn’t looking to sell something to Mariana on that night I met her. I wasn’t looking for anything. I wasn’t even looking to really meet anybody. I was going to go see the movie, you know, say hi to some people. And just like, yeah, that was really cool. Like you did a great job on the movie. I can’t wait to see it. But the fact that that you can serendipitously run into people at these events, and it does give you a chance to talk about like what you’re working on who you are, because especially in LA, I mean, people are… I mean, everybody’s always up to something. Am I right? Everybody’s always up to something, they’re up to three or four things or five things, like you have to be up to something. So you get a little better at communicating what you’re up to in that moment, you know, in a really real way, you know, and just in feeling people out to like, who’s this person? Okay. Most people you meet on your day to day, you tell them you make a movie, they just don’t even really care, you know, so that’s another thing about living out here. It’s like, shot a couple movies like, oh, that’s great. You know, and then they’ll just move on to the next conversation topic. So, the premiere is a good chance to hone in on the idea that that these could be working actors that I’m meeting or producers that are looking for something.
