David Spaltro Articles

In January 2009 I did an interview with filmmaker David Spaltro, whose semi-autobiographical urban romantic drama …Around premiered at the Tribeca Cinemas in September 2008. Just today, David asked me to post his request for funding for his next project, Things I Don’t Understand, which he is planning to begin shooting next January in Brooklyn. See below. My name is David Spaltro, the filmmaker of [...]

David Spaltro Interview Part I What about Molly Ryman? Is her character based on a real person? Molly was an absolute joy to work with and a real find for the role of Allyson, which is based mostly on one real person and also a few others. She was cast in a marathon casting session in January '07 out of thirty NY actresses. Other than [...]

David Spaltro's …Around is appropriately subtitled, "Embrace the Fall." For "falling" — both emotionally and financially — is what happens to the film's protagonist, whose hurdles are based on writer-director Spaltro's own experiences while studying film at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. …Around follows the travails of Doyle (Rob Evans — a better-looking and more naturalistic James Stewart type), a young [...]