Private Project

Play Time

Play Time is a 63-minute documentary about community theater. Actors, writers, directors, producers, and crew tell us and show us the story of their passion for live drama, from script to final bow. "Heart" is at the heart of this film shot across Long Island.

  • Anthony DiFranco
    Director
    Roll Call: A Dance Story; My Grandma's American Dream; The Dollar-A-Day Boys
  • Anthony DiFranco
    Writer
    Roll Call: A Dance Story; My Grandma's American Dream; The Dollar-A-Day Boys
  • Anthony DiFranco
    Producer
    Roll Call: A Dance Story; My Grandma's American Dream; The Dollar-A-Day Boys
  • Over 100 theater actors, directors, writers, producers, crew
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Genres:
    Humanistic
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 2 minutes 45 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    November 23, 2017
  • Production Budget:
    10,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital high definition
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Anthony DiFranco

Anthony DiFranco, who is also an award-winning fiction writer, is the producer, director, cinematographer, editor, and narrator of a number of films, including prize-winning documentaries. His last documentary, Roll Call: A Dance Story, about people in wheelchairs who learn to ballroom dance, has won multiple awards, including Best Documentary (Ridgewood Film Festival2017), Humanitarian Film Award (Long Island International Film Expo 2017), Pushing the Boundaries Award (Socially Relevant Film Festival 2017), Best Dance Film Award (Chautauqua Film Festival 2017), and others. His movies My Grandma’s American Dream and The Dollar-A-Day Boys: Remembering the Civilian Conservation Corps have been invited to festivals, colleges, historical societies, and libraries in many states. The CCC movie, winner of the Best Documentary Award at the Long Island Film Festival, was featured on Vermont PBS.
His O. Henry prize-winning story “The Garden of Redemption” became a Paramount Pictures movie starring Anthony LaPaglia.

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Director Statement

The people you'll see in "Play Time" should strike a chord with anyone involved in independent filmmaking, since they do the same thing we do, that is, work terribly hard just because they love what they're doing.