VINCE GERMAIN in
"DIVINE INTERVENTION"

a VASSAR COLLEGE student film
starring MATT SEMLER
GINA GRANDI
BRIAN GROSZ
CHRIS GRABOWSKI
DARRELL JAMES
BEN FINE
SAL BOTTI
sound mixing by SETH GRANGER
sound editing by PETER EPSTEIN
cinematography by ADAM McDANIEL
edited by BRIAN STAMPNITSKY
produced by SAL BOTTI
written & directed by CHARLIE STICKNEY
filmed entirely on the vassar college
campus, poughkeepsie, ny
filmed January through
late april, 1996

This was an old student film I worked on during my senior year at Vassar, way back in 1996. Revisiting it after all these years is a surreal, bittersweet experience (largely due to personal reasons), and while I still can't make head nor tail of its plot, I found myself laughing out loud at a lot of it...and in a good way, too. It's fun and was a lot of fun to make.

I served as the cinematographer, and had a blast playing with pseudo-film-noirish shadows and camera angles. The producer handled some of the obvious, inconsistant insert shots, either because I wasn't available or because he not-so-secretly wanted to take over the camera duties. There was one near-disaster that I could take blame for, though: I once left one of my lighting "cookies" (a large sheet of cardboard I'd cut with horizontal lines for shadow effects) standing too close to the lights, and it almost caught on fire from the heat. I don't remember how much smoke there was before any of us noticed it...but it left me pretty shaken.

It's a big, silly, goofy detective film, whose titular character has quite an illustrious history. Here's hoping more of Mr. Germain's adventures may at some point see the light of day.

FILM STILLS

All stills taken from VinceGermain.com.

PERSONAL PHOTOS

Crew (from left): Seth Granger, Brian Stampnitsky, Ben Fine, Sal Botti, Matt Semler, Gina Grandi, Charlie Stickney, Peter Epstein. All color photos by Adam McDaniel.
Matt Semler as Vince; shooting within the old Avery Building at Vassar.	Shooting inside the Alumni House Bar. Charlie somehow managed to break in after the building's manager had reneged on his word and locked us out.
Charlie directing Matt.	Seth Granger, et son mic de boom.

PREMIERE PICS

Promo flyer for Vassar
student film screenings.

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