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No. 18 Vol. 2
My Life Publications • 973-809-4784 February 2022
Wayne Writer Wins Award of Recognition for His Original Film
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By Steve Sears ormer Caldwell University student and current Wayne resident, Ryan Lesica, was recently presented with an “Award of Recognition” by the Best Shorts Film Competition for his 6:54 film titled Takeoff, which he entered in the LGBTQ film category. Lesica, 27, and his Executive Producer, Michael Brueno, who resides in Chatham and is 29, have joined forces with and are now part of two-year-old United Front Media. “I went to school at Caldwell University, studying Communications, Film, and Media,” says Lesica, who is quick to credit his professors John Yurko and Robert Mann. “They taught me all about film and media journalism, and I took several digital filmmaking courses, kind of integrated with both my passion of film and visual storytelling.” Since then,
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L to R: Ryan Lesica, Dante Qzuevedo, Zach Booth, and Sam Schmitz.
Lesica has been working on a variety of different projects, trying to get his hands on experience via many different avenues. “I did a few promotional shorts, I worked on a documentary, I helped film a feature that I helped write, and then got hired on board to Donovan Russo’s United Front media. That’s kind of how I met Donovan and Mike, and his
brother, Sebastian.” From there, the group started collaborating on a few short films, all funded by United Front Media. “And then, with the budget, the dedication, and the reception, Takeoff is really our starting point, our launching pad. And we’re both surprised and pleased with the reception it’s gotten. We definitely want to see where I guess - no pun
intended - this takes off, see where this goes.” Courtesy of Lesica’s YouTube channel, the description of the award winning short is as follows: A pilot and his foreign partner struggle with the limitations of their relationship as distance separates them in more ways than one. A passionate independent continued on page 6
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