Actor Philippe Debaty

Official Selection to LA Indie Film Fest

Philippe — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 20:13:43 +0000

‘The Life of Eric Richards‘ scored another festival, the LA Indie Film Fest! It will be screened on Wednesday March 20th, at 7pm at the:

Let Live Theatre
916 N. Formosa Ave.
West Hollywood, CA 90046

Tickets are available here: http://laindiefilmfest.com/schedule/shorts/the-life-of-eric-richards/

I will definitely attend the screening and I hope to see you there.

‘The Life of Eric Richards’ now on YouTube!

Philippe — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:16:49 +0000

After a successful festival run (still pending a few additional potential selections), ‘The Life of Eric Richards’ is now available on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52uAZOVV2I8

If you enjoy it, facebook it, tweet it, share it everywhere to share the fun!

Many thanks and congrats to all who contributed to this film (full cast and crew list, awards, and more details at http://www.lifeofericrichards.com/ )!

Official Selection to the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival

Philippe — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 03:51:13 +0000

The Life of Eric Richards was officially selected to the prestigious Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival (HRIFF)!! The selection letter pointed out that the programmers, judges, and screeners have judged to the film to be in the top 4% of blind-submission films sent to our festival.

So if you can make it to the festival, you will be joining Vanessa Redgrave, Susan Sarandon, Ron Howard, Bryce Dallas Howard, James Franco, Tinto Brass, Sean Young, Frances Fisher, Franco Nero, Mark Boone Jr, Jon Polito, Harmony Korine, Martin Mull, Ad Asner, Dominic Purcell, Don Herdzfeldt, Edward Furlong, Kurt Fuller, Rick Shapiro, Uwe Boll, George Cheung, Daniel J Travanti, Eric Roberts, Armand Assante, Clint Howard, Anna Chlumsky, John Steiner, Lou Ferrigno, and others who are either appearing in person or have films represented in the 2012 Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival. I’ll definitely be there!

It will be screened on Dec. 4^th at 2:00 PM at The New Beverly Cinema in Beverly Hills. Buy your tickets at http://hrifftickets.eventbrite.com/

General Info about the festival:

Website: http://www.hollywoodreelindependentfilmfestival.com/
Ticketing site: http://hrifftickets.eventbrite.com/
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/HRIFFfilmfestival
Program Guide: http://hollywoodreelindependentfilmfestival.com/ProgramGuide2012/5default.php

Won the AIFF 2012 Best Short Short Award!

Philippe — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 03:27:16 +0000

The last two weeks have been amazing for ‘The Life of Eric Richards‘! It was screened on Friday Nov 2 at night at the LA Comedy Festival, then Monday night Nov 5th, my birthday by the way , at the American Independent Film Festival (AIFF), along with some other awesome short films at both events!

And I just found out that it won the best Short Short Award at the American Independent Film Festival! Congratulations to everyone who participated in the movie!

I attended both festivals and participated in small Q&A sessions on both occasions.

The LA Comedy Festival was at the Los Feliz 5 Cinemas, a quaint and vintage little cinema in Los Feliz. The attendance was pretty much all filmmakers and their friends. The selection was excellent. I particularly enjoyed ‘Status Update – A Facebook Fairytale‘, which was a hilarious and highly professionally executed comedy about an average joe who magically gets all his facebook update realized. ‘The Diner’s Club‘ was also a great and well executed idea. The Life of Eric Richards seemed well received with lots of laughs in all the right places .

The American Independent Film Festival was screened at the Laemmle Music Hall in Beverly Hills. Great theater and location. Again, the selection was impressive. My favorites were ‘The Golden Age’, a fresh comedy about a college reunion gone wrong, and ‘Reflection of the Life‘, a sweet hipster romance that was also shot in San Francisco (just like The Life of Eric Richards). I actually recognized one of the actress in the film, Annamarie Macleod, whom I worked with on a Cisco commercial.

I am stoked that the Life of Eric Richards won the Best Short Short Award (under 5 min).

‘The Life of Eric Richards’ Officially Selected to the 2012 LA Comedy Fest

Philippe — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 05:55:47 +0000

Woot! The Life of Eric Richards scores another festival! It was officially selected to the 2012 Los Angeles Comedy Festival. It will be screened at the Los Feliz 3 Cinema on Friday, November 2nd, 2012 at 6pm. Just a few days before being screened at the 2012 American Independent Film Festival on November 5th.

Congrats and many thanks to all those involved in making this film!

Booked Lead Role in Short Film ‘Swingers’ and Cameo in ‘Phantom-Limbed’

Philippe — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 01:41:02 +0000

After two callbacks, I was cast in the lead role of a short film called ‘Swingers’, that will be directed by Chapman University graduate student Alyxandra Press. Rehearsals have already started with my costar Bethany Bonnaud. The film is set in a future dystopia and I play the role of a scientist who tries to regain the trust of his girlfriend after a mysterious 2 year disappearance.

On other news, I had the pleasure to reunite with some of the cast of ‘The Life of Eric Richards‘ (from left to right on the photo: Kristine Gerolaga, Yulia Kutsopey, Victoria Ma) for a brief cameo in ‘Phantom-Limbed‘, a short film written and directed by Kee Heywood, who was the editor and AD on ‘The Life Of Eric Richards’.

‘The Life of Eric Richards’ is officially selected at the 2012 American Independent Film Festival

Philippe — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 05:24:09 +0000

I am pleased to announce that ‘The Life of Eric Richards‘ (short film that I wrote, produced and acted in) was accepted to the American Independent Film Festival. It will be screened on November 5th at 8:30pm at the Laemmle Music Hall in Beverly Hills.

Tickets will be available for sale shortly.

New LA Commercial Agent

Philippe — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 06:21:25 +0000

I am happy to report that I signed with a new commercial agent in LA: Sovereign Talent Group. They are a well established, reputable, SAG franchised, boutique agency.

‘The Vintage’ wins Scary Cow Member’s Award

Philippe — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 23:31:45 +0000

Congratulations Samir Sinha and everyone involved! ‘The Vintage’ was premiered at the 17th Scary Cow Film Festival at the Castro Theater in San Francisco on July 7th and it won the Scary Cow Member’s Award and the best Special/Visual Effects Award. The team received a $1000 budget for its next movie! More details about the film are available in this previous post. Here are a few screenshots from the film, featuring the aloof vampire character I played.

2012 Calshorts Film Festival Photos

Philippe — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 01:58:55 +0000

As mentioned in a previous post, ‘The Life of Eric Richards‘ was screened at the 2012 Calshorts Film Festival in Santa Monica on June 16th, 2012. The festival went very well. As always it was awesome to see the audience’s reactions. The other films in the festival were of a very high caliber and we were honored to have been selected among them.

Here are some photos of director Robert Zimmerman and myself taken during the Q&A session and the after party: