Michael Gabriele of Daily Planet has taken home the Midwest Emmy for Outstanding Achievement for Directing on the short film, Room Tone.
If you are a filmmaker, the film is a must-see satire of an obsessive sound man who is continuously interrupted by his cast and crew members as he attempts to record room tone.
See if you can spot Scott Marvel as one of the noisemakers who is ultimately “removed” from the set.
Here’s the tagline:
When a sound guy’s attempt to capture “room tone” is constantly thwarted by the noisy antics of his coworkers, he takes extreme measures to achieve silence.
In a recent Facebook post Gabriele announced the win and said he was “completely floored and grateful for the amazing team that helped this ridiculous short film come to life.”
ROOM TONE wins a Midwest
EMMY
This past weekend I won a Midwest Emmy for Outstanding Achievement for Directing for Room Tone! I am completely floored and grateful for the amazing team that helped this ridiculous short film come to life.
Thank you Daily Planet Productions Ltd., Wilson KZ and Scott Marvel for the opportunity and Amy Stewart for working her butt off to gather an amazing cast and crew and Danny Rhodes for helping me write it!
Thank you Mickey O’Sullivan for really making this film shine with an amazing performance as our lead. Also Angela Aiello, LaShonda Barton-Koonce, Jay Feliciano, Brittanie Boeck, Jeff Zarinelli, Danny Rhodes, Scott Marvel for their performances as well! Thank you Cyle Williamson for all the great fx and being creative with what resources we had. Thank you Paul Incapreo for being such a talented and efficient DP and Mitch Buss for your steadicam work. Finally on the post end, Tim Berthiaume for the great end titles and vfx, Jeff Altman for the beautiful grade, Mark Ruff for the creative sound design/mix, and Sonixphere, Greg Allan, Tony Elfers for the killer score!
Last but not least a huge thanks to the Chicago/Midwest chapter of the Emmys for honoring us with this amazing award!
In addition, Gabriele’s short film, Get Away, an electrifying short horror film recently made its Chicago premiere. Directed by Gabriele, the film was showcased at the Chicago International Film Festival
ALSO READ: Chicago premiere of Michael Gabriele’s ‘Get Away’ Oct 20 at CIFF
