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It’s on her wrist now, a star to remind her of the years spent wearing the hats of writer, procucer, director and actor. Five years creating a very personal story that was finally ready to share with the world.
“It just felt like I never stopped working on it,” Negri said. “As soon as the shooting and editing were done, it seemed like the marketing and promotion started.”
The movie, “Gold Star” is finally ready for it’s world premier at the Buffallo International Film Festival on Friday October 7, 9:15 p.m., at the North Park Theatre, Buffalo, N.Y.
The festival describes the film as “A personal and beautifully drawn debut feature from writer/director Victoria Negri – who stars as Vicki, a floundering New York City-based twenty-something called back home to Connecticut to care for her elderly father (Robert Vaughn) following a debilitating stroke.”
The film is inspired by Negri’s own experiences caring for her father, Carmine, following a stroke in 2011. She began the script while helping look after him. He passed away in 2012, and she has been working on the film ever since.
The movie features several locations in and around Orange and Milford, including the Ale Orange House.
As of Sept. 8, the film was finally 100 percent locked according to Negri who had just completed the color correction process. She was in the process of having the Blu-rays made.
She was excited to finally be able to share the completed film with Vaughn, who had not yet seen the finished product. He has virtually no lines in the movie. The challenge of communicating his character through expression and body language drew him to the project.
After the Buffalo festival, Negri hopes to show the film at a few more festivals. Eventually she would like to have a showing in Orange and is working with the Orange Arts and Culture Council to make that a reality.
Negri is already working on her next film project, tentatively titled “Ultra.” It’s about an ultra-marathon runner on a desert race who has a psychotic break. Negri compared it to “Black Swan” in some regards.
“It might get a little scary,” she said.