New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Fresh director
Matteo Ribaudo has launched a Indiegogo campaign to raise funds for the feature film entitled "Broome Street Boys." https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/broome-street-boys-movie#/story
Ribaudo plans on bringing back that nitty gritty mob movie that we came to know so well during the 1970s and 1980s with classics such as Serpico, Mean Streets, and The French Connection.
After researching the true story behind The French Connection,
Matteo became enthusiastic and began the process of mixing fiction with non-fiction, weaving facts with fantasy and using real life characters as inspiration for the characters in the movie.
The plot of Broome Street Boys centers around two brothers, Alec and Eddie, one a hoodlum the other a cop. Alec manages to steal 42 kilos of French Connection heroin from the NYPD precinct on Broom Street. His brother Eddie is there to arrest him, but the heroin disappears. The movie picks up again when Alec is released from prison ten years later. From that moment the audience is taken on a violent rollercoaster ride filled with mobsters, pimps, and corrupt cops.
The biggest name in Broome Street Boys is John Heard, who plays an NYPD detective, best known for his role as the father of
Kevin in Home Alone 1 and 2, and to all mob buffs as the corrupt cop friend of Tony
Soprano on the first season of The Sopranos.
The movie is now almost done filming. "Two-thirds of the movie is shot, we have one-third left. About ten to twelve days of shooting," he estimates. With only ten to twelve shooting days left he is almost there. If not for one big problem. "We're tapped out," he says. "We need 50k to finish it." That's 50k more than they have right now.
That is why
Matteo and his film crew need your help! The guys are starting a crowdfunding campaign to help get the movie finished. He wants to show you don't have to be Veronica Mars, starring Kristen Bell, Or
James Franco to raise the money. A real independent filmmaker finds a way.
With the recent success of
Black Mass, starring Johnny Depp as
Boston crime boss Whitey Bulger, and a movie about New York mob boss John Gotti in production, it is clear Ribaudo's Broome Street Boys fits right in there as a successful mob story that needs to be told.
Now, don't take our written word for it. Instead, let
Matteo Ribaudo himself ask you in this very funny pitch video to kick off his Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjQFdq7MtXI
To make a contribution go to: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/broome-street-boys-movie#/story
