Michael Patrick Kelly

Producer, Director, Writer

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My Details

 

United States , New York City
michael@aquapiofilms.com

Current Work Details

What I do

Think

Company

Aquapio Films Ltd.

Website

http://aquapiofilms.com

Where I work

I run my own company or organisation

Technical Skills

Producer/Director/Writer/Editor

Resources / Expertise

SONY PMW-F3, HVR-V1U, PD150, 1 PowerMac G5, 1 MacPro, 2 DVCAM Decks ,BETA sp, FCP6 & 7

Availability

Paid Work or Collaboration

Training

1985-1990

SUNY and New York University,
Radio/Television Production/ Filmmaking/Cinema Studies

Shooters Q&A

Films I wish I had made

I'm making them as fast as I can...

I cried watching

The death of an onion... Ya gotta believe me, it was the onion or me...

I left the cinema during

I have never walked out of a cinema... No, wait, a girlfriend once dragged me out of Caligula... But I would have toughed it out...

Directors I love

Wilder, Sayles, Kubrick, Chaplin, Lang, De Sica, Coen Bros, Almodovar, Fassbinder, Jarmusch, Sturges, Truffaut, Coppola, Capra, Sirk, Murnau, Wenders, Welles, Kurosawa, Malle, Costa-Gavras, Boyle, etc...

Actors I admire

D. Day Lewis, Marcia Gay Harden, Helen Mirren, Jack Warden, Arthur Kennedy, Suzanne Hayes, Benicio Del Toro, Robert Shaw, Gary Oldman, Danny Glover, Charlie Chaplin, Rod Steiger, John Garfield, Canada Lee, Meryl Streep, Jeffrey Wright, George Sanders, Claudette Colbert, Paul Muni, F. Murray Abraham, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Richard E. Grant, Shelley Winters, Christopher Guest, Barbara Stanwyck, Orson Welles, Sidney Poitier, Sissy Spacek, Delroy Lindo, Juano Hernandez, Fredric March, Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Frankie Faison, Keir Dullea, Bill Nunn, Ida Lupino...

Writers I respect

Dr. Seuss, Eugene O'Neill, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, Richard Yates, Kurt Vonnegut, Edgar Allan Poe, Billy Shakespeare, Susan Glaspell, Joyce Carol Oates, Tennessee Williams, J. M. Coetzee, Howard Zinn, Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond, Paul Auster, David Mamet, Tracy Letts, Ethan Coen, Sam Shepard, Budd Schulberg, Christopher Moore, Barbara Kingsolver, Naomi Klein, William Goldman, Spike Lee, Steven Zaillian...

My desert island discs

Jeff Beck "Blow by Blow", Little Feat, "Waiting for Columbus" Fishbone "Truth and Soul" Sonny Rollins "Saxophone Colossus" Glenn Gould "The Goldberg Variations" Willie Nelson "Stardust" Rahsaan Roland Kirk "We Free Kings" "The Beatles", NIN "Pretty Hate Machine", Violent Femmes, John Coltrane, "Blue Train", Beethoven's 9th/George Szell conducting, Paul Motian "Trioism" Frank Zappa,"Over-Nite Sensation"/"One Size Fits All", G.D. Mars Hotel/Dead Set/any of Dick's Picks, The Doors L.A. Woman Ben Harper, Both Sides of the Gun...

Books I have given my friends

Autobiography of Malcolm X, A Peoples History of the United States by Howard Zinn, Seth Speaks by Jane Roberts, The Shock Doctrine, by Naomi Klein, What is the What, by Dave Eggers, Just Kids, by Patty Smith,

My death row meal

Mashed Potatos, Asparagus, Corn on the cob, Portobello & Shitaki Mushrooms sauted with onion and peppers and a salad w/ balslmic vinegar & oil.

The best thing I own

My Balls

More about me

Life's a cab away... Or is it a Cabernet?