Sticking Out Like a Sore Thumb (2015)

Matthew Marioni is an amateur filmmaker and film student who has big plans for a future career as a Hollywood director. He is in the process of writing, directing, producing and staring in a short film entitled "Deer In Headlights" which he hopes will help expose himself to a wider audience for future projects. Ben Ratner is an experienced and confident independent filmmaker with two feature length films under his directorial belt along side nearly 25 years of experience as a professional actor. He speaks about his second feature film "Down River, and what it takes to create and showcase original material. Ralf Kelman, an energetic raconteur with many ideas about the world of film, politics, art, espionage and most things in between. He speaks about his ideas for his future film entitled "Drone Wars" which he believes, if done in a timely way, could be the next big blockbuster capable of not only entertaining, but opening minds at the same time. These three very different perspectives all come together to form a complex picture of what it means to be a filmmaker in the 21st century.