Chris Cassidy's Interviewed in FilmStew
Chris Cassidy is one of our NYC go-to-guys. He cranks out consistently great work from book videos to IFC segments. Check out this article in FilmStew about his feature length video in the works. Check it out. --Kelly Duane
EXCERPT:
“This will be Cassidy’s third feature-length documentary, an art form that famously does not pay the bills. So, in addition to continuing to support himself as a music and boxing photographer, Cassidy has for the past couple of years also been working as a videographer for TurnHere Inc., an Internet video production service that relies on a stable of thousands of filmmakers just like Cassidy.
The 40-year-old Long Island native has worked principally on short promotional videos for publishers Simon & Schuster and Random House, interviewing the likes of Stephen King and Mary Higgins Clark. It is work that he thoroughly enjoys.
“For these three-minute book author web videos, you get to spend a few hours with these brilliant writers and then try to tell their stories," Cassidy explains. "It’s a fun challenge.” Given the fact that Vic Thrill himself has an autobiography in the works that will be published by Random House, Cassidy jokes that it would seem somehow fitting if he were the one recruited to shoot Thrill’s TurnHere promo.
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