Interview: Screenwriter-Director Sean Hartofilis (“Beach Pillows”)

From Ivy League lacrosse star to writer-director of the new indie film Beach Pillows starring Geoffrey Arend, Vincent Kartheiser, Annette O’Toole, and Richard Schiff, the career path of Sean Hartofilis has been an interesting one. Recently I spoke with Sean about life as an indie filmmaker and Beach Pillows which is available on iTunes, Amazon and other digital platforms.

Part 1: “Geoffrey’s married to Christina Hendricks. So I said, ‘There’s this guy on your wife’s show, Vincent Kartheiser, who hasn’t done anything like this, but some things I’ve seen him do on the show make me think he might be great for the character of Nick.’”

Part 2: “Mistakes don’t have any value unless you can learn from them and grow. I think by the end of the story, hopefully, they’ve done some learning and they’re ready to move on and not look back as much.”

Part 3: “I had three brothers who were a lot bigger than me, so maybe sometimes I used words to protect myself, or made people laugh so they wouldn’t hit me.”

Part 4: “What I had to do, only having 20 days to make the film — and this is just the way I think I’ll make all my movies should I have the opportunity to make more — is that it was all planned.”

Part 5: “I don’t think writing is a much an act as a way of being.”

Thanks to Sean for the interview.

Beach Pillows is available on iTunes here and on Amazon here.

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