Ten Sundays

Ten Sundays Productions was formed in 2004 as an independent production company operated by filmmakers wanting to share ideas and sharpen each others abilities. A company which takes pride in cutting the fat that limits other productions and taking a confrontational approach to the process. Taking direct aim on the aimless and outdated dinosaurs that occupy the film business. Focused on embracing low budgets and the untapped resources of local talent. Believers that cinema is too pure and beautiful a form to let humility or fear get in the way. Interested in creating an environment where it is encouraged to make films which are as loud, sweet, funny, obscene, or violent as desired. The filmmakers involved are anti censorship and pro piracy. Their collective works have been shown internationally at film festivals and theatrical screenings.

Paul Busetti was born in Alexandria, Virginia in 1982. After graduating high school, he decided against film school and instead went to work for minimum wage at a local independent video store. Inspired by the new breed of movie geeks turned directors raised by the VCR, he spent the next six years sharpening his encyclopedic cinematic knowledge and arguing about movies with anyone who would linger in the store long enough. He wrote, directed, and edited his first short The Clockmaker when he was 21. He followed that up with Gone the Way of the Buffalo and Antidote Seven. The combined budget of all three films was under $1000. In 2007, he completed an exhaustive 13 months of editing How Did You Lose Your Soul Sweetheart, which he also produced and photographed. He rebounded later that year when he wrote & directed the short horror film Cannibal Cheerleader Camp which was an official selection of the Virginia Independent Film Festival. The same year he also co-wrote/directed the satirical short Abraham Lincoln: The Motion Picture with Ian Albetski and together they co-produced the feature comedy Boxing Day, which has been playing at film festivals around the country since its 2008 release. His major influences are Scorsese, Polanski, Kubrick, Godard, Dario Argento, John Caprenter, & David Cronenberg. He has authored the screenplays for the upcoming horror film Dysphonia and the drama Rum on an Empty Stomach, which he hopes to produce in 2010. He is currently adapting his own short Antidote Seven into a feature length script. He lives in New York City with his wife and bunny rabbit.

Contact: Paul@tensundays.com
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Ian Albetski was born in 1984, the very year "Conan the Destroyer" was released. But despite this horrible travesty, Ian quickly developed an interest in film. Introduced at an early age to the classic works of Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney, these movies would shape his aesthetic taste on even the most guerilla of shoots. Frustrated with the glacial pace and suffocating confines of high school film courses, he was eager to break out and quickly embraced the freedom and control of low budget filmmaking. Together with childhood friend Paul Busetti, he co-founded Ten Sundays Productions in 2004. In between rounds of White Russians, they co-produced several films such as The Clockmaker, Cannibal Cheerleader Camp, and Boxing Day. In 2007, he wrote the script that would later become Abraham Lincoln: The Motion Picture, his directorial debut. He is currently in post-production on the experimental film Tuesday and will be co-producing the upcoming feature Rum on an Empty Stomach. He lives in Alexandria Virginia with his wife, actress Bridget Devlin Burke.

Contact: Ian@tensundays.com
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