Broken House Research Paper

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In my ongoing crusade to highlight independent filmmakers, I sometimes uncover a gem that essentially doubles my interest. Meet Ross Munro who works closely with his wife Maria (she will be featured later this week). A little while back, Ross agreed to an interview in which we briefly examined his work thus far, his motivation behind his filmmaking passion, and his future endeavors.

RH: Why did you decide to become an actor?

RM: I think just because I grew up in the '70's. I was just one of those movie rats that always went to movie theaters. All my daydreaming was about actors. I loved Charles Bronson and Clint Eastwood and all those other action guys. I loved the classics too like Paul Newman and Steve McQueen. I had two fantasies. One was to see myself as a …show more content…
Even though it's hard sometimes to do things yourself financially and to put the time in, the one huge benefit is that complete control you have over what you're doing. You don't have a lot of chefs in the kitchen nor a lot of people where you have to justify everything you do. I think that definitely is a benefit to do it yourself--DIY filmmaking.

So as I looked through your works that are listed, I think Broken Palace is one of your first things listed.

Broken Palace is a short documentary that we made a couple years ago about the unfortunate but universal issue of single-screen heritage movie theaters being torn down. That is something that has been going on since around the 70's or so, but really noticeable now especially here in Vancouver with real estate prices and the move to all these multi-screen cinemas. That actually played at the Vancouver Film Festival. So we were happy with that. And that was the first film I made with my wife, Maria. It was a huge benefit that we were able to work together.

I see that trend a lot in independent films--couples working together or at least family members working together. I know you had a couple of things before this

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