"The Nudelmans of Beaver Bay" begins production

We're currently in pre-production on a new feature length comedy. The film will be released in the second half of 2007. Starring Ari Hoptman, Sam Landman, Alex Cole, Alayne Hopkins, Anatoly Liberman and Charles Brin among others, "The Nudelmans of Beaver Bay" is a heartbreaking comedy about family, home, loss, and middle High German prosody, featuring Ari Nudelman, an instructor of linguistics at a large midwestern university, who also does a little acting on the side. When someone will let him. (Believe it or not I couldn't find a photo on the internet of Beaver Bay, Minnesota, so I had to settle for this one - Lake Superior near Beaver Bay. Or maybe that's actually the bay. Yeah, in fact it is. Yep. That's the bay. Beaver Bay.)

Someone asked, "What's up with the North Shore theme? First Two Harbors, now The Nudelmans of Beaver Bay." Actually it was Aaron Gelperin, my cameraman, who asked. But what is up with that? I don't know. Maybe I'm making a North Shore Triology, or something. Although Nudelmans and Two Harbors could not be more different. So never mind.

The film will eventually have its own website here: www.nudelmans.com, featuring news, reviews, photos, a production blog and more, so check it often. I will also have summary updates here.