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Director Neill Calabro - Fried Green Tomorrows documentary
Neill Calabro (born September 24, 1960) is an American writer, film director, actor, and musician. He is best known for his novel, Hanging Angels, and his film collaboration with director Steve Balderson on The Casserole Club, Culture Shock, and Occupying Ed.
Contents
- Director Neill Calabro Fried Green Tomorrows documentary
- Early life
- Fried Green Tomorrows Juliette GA Lives
- Cultivision collapsing stars
- The Casserole Club
- Culture Shock
- Occupying Ed
- Film director
- References
Early life
Calabro was born in Orlando, Florida and raised in Lakeland, Florida after his parents left New York in the late 1950s. He studied piano and accordion before settling to percussion with a concentration on mallets.
Attending college in Georgia, and receiving a B.S. in Communications, Calabro continued his music prowess in Atlanta and Athens, Georgia performing with several bands, most notably A&M recording artists The Swimming Pool Q's for a period of ten years and recording on their most recent album. The band he co-founded in the 80's, Insanity (of Athens, GA), came to a final end when lead singer, Rick Martin, died of bone and lunger cancer, August 1st, 2001.
His acting career began in the 1990s, as he traveled with fellow actor Emmy Collins from East to West coast, working on movie sets as an actor, stand-in or photo-double. Calabro's experiences led to the book Anyone Can Be in Movies. He returned to Georgia from L.A. and began writing and directing.
In 2013, he began writing for the Jones County News, a print and online newspaper in Middle Georgia which county has an estimated 30,000 people. His stories focus on area historical sites such as Flannery O'Connor's Andalusia farm in Milledgeville, Civil War town Old Clinton, the 1803 Hunt House in Wayside.(which sits across from Otis Redding's ranch, in jeopardy of destruction), The National Geographic Channel's show Diggers which filmed on Jones County's famous battle site of Griswoldville, plus many other.
In 2014, as a solo artist under the name Neilliene, his Christmas song and video Survive This Life - Kids Asleep At Christmas received the fourth highest fan vote total out of 260 worldwide submissions in the Songs For Peace international contest.
Fried Green Tomorrows: Juliette, GA Lives
Shot on location in Juliette, Georgia the town used as the movie set for Fried Green Tomatoes, Calabro's documentary takes a look, 15 years later, at the development of the former ghost town with interviews and history. Exhibited by NATAS Screens It, a summer film series from the Southeast chapter of the National Academy Television Arts Sciences.
Cultivision (collapsing stars)
Starring Danny Vinson, and Monica Ambrose from The Amazing Race 4, Calabro's Sci-Fi Farce explores a Scientology type cult that worships Rod Serling.
The Casserole Club
Neill wrote and directed the "Groovy" TV show within the movie for this Steve Balderson production.
Culture Shock
Neill wrote and directed the opening kidnapping segment representing a viral video for this Steve Balderson production.
Occupying Ed
Neill wrote and directed footage for the bar scenes in the Balderson film. Calabro's entire filmette, entitled You're My What? was nominated Best Of Georgia Films at the Milledgeville Film Fest, 2014