Thursday, April 3, 2008

Lights, Camera, Mafia to Mormon Documentary Action!

Sssshhhhh....its still sort of a secret. Cedar Fort Publishing (Mario's Mafia to Mormon Publisher) has commissioned Avalanche Studios from Salt Lake (http://www.avalanche-studios.com/) to make a documentary about Mario and his book. The crew has been here since Monday night trailing Mario and interviewing a host of celebs!

Last night...the crew made its stop at the Day home! The shoot started with a casual "family" conversation in our kitchen of funny Mario stories and concluded with personal interviews under the hot, glowing hollywood lights. We were asked a variety of questions that will certainly be sorted through for the final product.

Amy did the best overall managing to crack out a tear or two for the documentary's sentimental moment. I, of course, stuck with the funny material and the now 17 year old threat of legs getting broken for not joining the family (Mickey Blue Eyes has nothing on us!). Scott wanted to appear as the shadow man with the altered voice...but the technical requirements might have been beyond what looked like the Barbara Walters experience in our living room!

Enjoy the photos. Watch for a late summer/fall release! Targeted to be sold in bookstores, broadcast on public access and nationally via KBYU, and rolled out at this year's Sundance Film Festival! With Amy's tears, Alec's karate, and Scott's shadow man we could be up for an academy award!



6 comments:

Mike and Marianne said...

Well aren't you all just fancy movie stars :) Can't wait for the release. By the way, the vulture's voice in "Horton Hears a Who" reminded Mitchell and I of Mario. He's famous all around.

Suzy said...

Now I have a real claim to fame! That must have been a once-in-a-lifetime-moment...Can't wait to see it!

Mark Brown said...

That's awesome. I'll promote it to all my snobby film friends.

melanie said...

Ditto! I think if it comes to Sundance, we need to do our couples reunion there!!

I'm still giggling about Scott being the shadow man... :)

Shauna said...

Famous Family Film Stars.

Wow.

Paul and Linda said...

Paul reports that the camera man and the Mafia Man were hiking around the Temple grounds yesterday. How sad that they should film "Michigan in the Spring" with such lovely gardens full of black snow and dead leaves. Ah well, with the right background music (?) I guess it can fly.