Robert Patton-Spruill Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Robert Patton-Spruill is an independent film director, screenwriter, producer, and teacher. His company, FilmShack, is based in Boston. Spruill lives in Roxbury, MA with his wife and daughter. Spruill is a professor at Emerson College, where he is Director in Residence.
Everyone has this image that I was just sitting on the couch, smoking a joint for the last decade... I had to build a company. To do what I want to, it needs to be sustainable. If you can keep the budgets low enough, you can pretty much guarantee success from a financial standpoint, and thus create sustainability. It took 10 years to put that shit together.
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I knew exactly what I was doing with Squeeze.... Squeeze is like a Truffaut movie, The 400 Blows. It's the same thing. It's just set in the 'hood with different-looking kids. Body Count was a job. That was a way to make a living.
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I can't create in Los Angeles. And there's not a big enough film scene in New York to make that worth my while. But here at home, I'm safe. It's like asking Woody Allen to make a movie outside of Manhattan. Boston is where I make films.
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Body Count was one big disaster after another... I was completely unprepared for working within the Hollywood system. I was 25 years old. Youngest person on set. Wasn't prepared for the intensity of what that really meant... I don't really want to get into it. It was a real disaster. Everyday was a disaster, and another disaster, until the disasters were over and we all went home.
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Completing post-production on his latest feature film, titled "Turntable." The film is a pulp action drama about a DJ. [October 2004]
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Running the newly reorganized Boston Film and Video Foundation at his Film Shack production company in Roxbury, Massachusetts. [2004]
Purchased the Roxbury, Massachusetts home of the late Henry Hampton with plans to renovate the property's 32-garage stalls into larger offices for his company The Film Shack .
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Recently directed a music video featuring Chuck D (formerly of "Public Enemy").
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Also, recently was set to direct "Trifecta," an independent crime thriller centered on gambling. The film was to star David Caruso (who also co-wrote the script) but the film never came to fruition.
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Uses his father, actor and teacher James Spruill, in all his films.
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Graduated from Boston University's School of Communications.
$5 Million
