Jeff Fisher

by Jeff Fisher I arrived in Los Angeles the way most people do: broke, optimistic, and dangerously underinformed. I had two phone numbers in my wallet. One belonged to a game show publicist whose Dad played poker once a week with my Dad back in South Florida. The other was a young associate producer I'd met on a show I'd PA'd on— a warm, funny young woman that might best be described as a Long Island Princess with absolutely zero interest in sugarcoating anything. She picked me up during my...

by Jeff Fisher My living room when I got the call: Cardboard Box Central That was my living room. Or what used to be my living room, when I got a call about a directing opportunity that was way out of my comfort zone. It was a Friday afternoon. Movers were coming Tuesday morning. I was leaving for a shoot in Chicago on Wednesday. I still had A LOT of packing to do. A good friend of mine had just had dinner with a producer on a football movie that had suddenly lost its director. Three...

On the set of KILLER MOVIE by Jeff Fisher You can read Part 1 of this story here: https://www.reeltalkwithjeff.com/post/how-i-got-my-first-feature-film-made-part-1-dead-bodies-paris-hilton-and-a-thousand-no-s After a thousand "No's," a last-minute financing swing, and some epic casting luck, I arrived in Minneapolis ready to shoot my first feature film. There was just one problem: the snow was gone. "Dead of Winter" would need a new name. But that was the least of my worries. THE COEN...