Johnny Berlin 
| Directed by: | Dominic DeJoseph |
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| Starring: | Jon Hyrns |
| Country: | U S A |
| Created: | 2005 |
| Runtime: | 55 min. |
| Member: | blackshoefilms |
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Average rating: 5 by 2 users
Film Description:
Synopsis
Johnny Berlin, a porter aboard a refurbished 1930's luxury train expounds upon his life as a struggling writer while holding down a workaday job. His stories about his oddball adventures while constantly traveling and trying to maintain some semblance of a life on board the train are simultaneously funny and dark. While going about his business, making beds and cleaning toilets, he talks about not having a date in five years, trying to sell his liver for cash, asking his father to increase his life insurance policy so he’ll get a larger inheritance, and taking a writing sabbatical in Cambodia to write about a man who decides to roll across America. The filmmaker follows his subject on a weeklong trip down the West Coast from Seattle to Los Angeles. The film is ultimately an intimate, offbeat, and humorous portrait of mid-life crisis presented as a monologue.
Forms: Documentary, Feature
Genres: Alternative, Comedy
Screenings & Events
SILVERDOCS AFI/Discovery Channel Film Festival
Film Festival
Silver Spring, Maryland, U S A
June 2005
New York Television Festival
Film Festival
New York City, New York, U S A
September 2005
Sarasota Film Festival
Film Festival
Sarasota, Florida, U S A
April 2006
Santa Cruz Film Festival
Film Festival
Awards: Special Director's Award
Santa Cruz, California, U S A
May 2006
Revelation Perth International Film Festival
Film Festival
Fremantle, Australia
July 2006
Newburyport/Northern Lights Documentary Film Festival
Film Festival
Newburyport, Massachusetts, U S A
September 2006
Tiburon Film Society
OTHER
Sausalito, California, U S A
September 2006
Black Bear Film Festival
Film Festival
New Milford, Pennsylvania, U S A
October 2006
Cinerail
Film Festival
France
January 2007
Cast & Crew
Brian Sack (Producer), Dominic DeJoseph (Producer, Director), Jim McKay (Executive Producer), Michael Stipe (Executive Producer), Ted Green (Producer)
PerformanceJon Hyrns (Lead Actor)
CameraDominic DeJoseph (Cinematographer/DP)
Post ProductionEric Bruggemann (Picture Editor), Eric Bruggemann (Sound Editor)
RepresentationDominic DeJoseph (Publicist)
JOHNNY BERLIN trailer
JOHNNY BERLIN is a 55-minute documentary-comedy about a train porter who is also a struggling writer, compulsive gambler and all-around ramblin' man. The film's credits are: Executive Producers: Michael Stipe and Jim McKay Producers: Ted Green and Brian Sack Director: Dominic J. DeJoseph Production Company: Black Shoe Films Presented by: C-Hundred Film Corp Festival Screenings: SILVERDOCS, Revelation Perth, CineRail, Santa Cruz, Black Bear, Newburyport, Durango Distribution: Documentary Channel Website: www.johnnyberlin.com Distributor: www.indiepix.net
8 Comments about Johnny Berlin
Apr 08, 2007 08:58AM
Johnny Berlin DVD now available at Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/Johnny-Berlin-Jon-Hyrns/dp/B000O76WV0/ref=sr_1_4/104-54207 82-4810354?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1174969468&sr=1-4
Mar 14, 2007 12:17AM
Please rate the trailer for JOHNNY BERLIN on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UwoM6KiEEU
Mar 12, 2007 02:10PM
Johnny Berlin hits Paris! Director, Dominic DeJoseph attends the CineRAIL film festival, a festival devoted to films about trains. Read the blog entry on the film's distributor, IndiePix's blog page:
http://weblog.indiepix.net/2007/03/01/johnny-berlin-hits-paris/
Jan 14, 2007 11:30AM
The R.E.M. website is plugging our semi-happy documentary-comedy, "Johnny Berlin."
The band just got voted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame!
Please check it out below:
http://www.remhq.com/flash/news/news.html?news_id=2356
Jan 09, 2007 06:04AM
This look like a very interesting film. Where can one see it?
Dec 22, 2006 03:42PM
JOHNNY BERLIN is now on DVD!
Available exclusively from IndiePix
for $14.95
Go to the web address below for more info:
http://johnnyberlin.indiepix.net
Aug 03, 2006 09:25AM
Here's a fun interview posted on The Documentary Channel website:
http://www.documentarychannel.com/main/content/view/56/1/
May 18, 2006 06:48AM
Have only seen bits and pieces of this doc but what i've seen was great. Black Shoe Films is the greatest!
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