Traverse City Film Festival Opener is for (Movie) Lovers

Shot on spec, this Traverse City Film Festival opener makes a “Garbage Man” the star of his own commercial. 

As director Pete Erickson puts it, “This shows the even the ‘grey people,’ people you don’t normally see yet are right in front of your eyes, have more going on in their head than they are given credit for. We watch as this garbage man, who is a big movie buff and no doubt loves a good movie festival, tries to answer the age-old question, ‘What’s your favorite movie?’ Not as easy as it seems.”

Actually, over here we prefer to tell people what our favorite movie is NOT. For example, our favorite movie is NOT “Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man.” See how easy? (no offense to Mickey, of course. “Pope of Greenwich Village” and “Diner” are both in our Top Ten)

Director: Pete Erickson
Writen by: Kiff Vanden Heuvel
DP: Rich Brauer
Producer: Pete Erickson & Lars Kelto