For now the movie is only available to the crew working with it. Before we put it on Vimeo and YouTube, we are submitting it to different film festivals all over the world. (Think Oscars, just smaller and for short films ;-))

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If Ben, frankly. Gets accepted into one of the film festivals you can go there and be one of the first ones to see it.

Sometimes one must just wait long enough for fate and chance to make an alliance. This little film is the result of those two shaking hands at the right time. Our producer Antonia had been looking for a good script to make a short film for a long time. This opportunity then landed at her feet through friendships she has made on social media.

2017 her Instagram account took her on a roadtrip around the US and Germany where she went to meet her IG friends. This, besides being a super fun adventure, lead her to connecting with Connor Trinneer. (Talk about six degrees of separation)

Then a couple of months later another friend on social media sent her a YouTube video he thought was funny, it had Connor and Bob in it.

It also turned out to be the perfect source for a perfect little script… she got in touch with Connor, who got in touch with Bob… and so it all began.

Not before the crew at Koenigsfilm got a good laugh out of it and then managed to rope Holger into producing it.

Well, the script has had quite the journey to get to film.

Connor had performed in the short play his friend Seth Kramer had written over 20 years ago as part of a published series.

Then about 10 years ago, at a convention, Connor was asked to do something for the fans. As fate would have it, he actually still had the play on hand, and asked Bob, who was also there, if he would like to read it with him. Bob said sure. So they just read the script on stage to the crowd’s delight.

A fan recorded it and uploaded it to YouTube, unbeknownst to all. There it quietly sat, until one day years later, it crossed paths with Antonia. She loved the story, and contacted Connor to turn it into a short film and Holger Koenig to produce it. The rest is, as they say, history.

Put two jetlagged actors and a producer in a car and get them stuck in traffic.

During production movies are often given a working title that is later changed. We called this little film “Caesar & Harrison” after the names of the two characters. Since the names are never actually mentioned we needed a different one.

Robert came up with “Ben, frankly.” and roped Connor into pitching it to our producer Antonia over Glühwein… Who can say no to that?

Oh, you’ll have to watch it to find out why it is so perfect. Hint: The original name of the script is: “History and a dash of Hollywood”.