[ergogroup]Re: Letter to Jewish Week

[Donny Epstein]

Thank you for this letter. I am sharing it with my entire company.

Donny
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Fab" <jfab@thejgroup.com>
To: "Hiltzik, Matthew" <Matthew.Hiltzik@miramax.com>; "Bob Johnson"
<bjohnson@thejgroup.com>; "Donny Epstein" <donny@ergoentertainment.com>;
"Bob Johnson" <RMJCAMERON@aol.com>; <elie@ergoentertainment.com>; "Ari
Pinchot" <apinchot@thejgroup.com>; <yeeshai@ergoentertainment.com>; "Elliot
Berlin" <eberlin@thejgroup.com>
Cc: "Deana Haight" <dhaight@thejgroup.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 1:16 PM
Subject: Letter to Jewish Week


> FYI, my letter to the editor of Jewish Week, submitted this morning.
>
> J
>
>
> Thank you so much for George Robinson's article about the film PAPER
CLIPS.
> As someone who was intimately involved in the making of the film, I would
> like to add some important information to what Mr. Robinson told your
> readers...
>     PAPER CLIPS has been a labor of great love and commitment for Matthew
> Hiltzik of Miramax Films and for Donny Epstein, Yeeshai Gross and Elie
> Landau of Ergo Entertainment since shortly after my colleagues and I at
The
> Johnson Group began production on it. Funding and arranging for the
> distribution of a film -- while they may be among the less glamorous
> elements of movie-making -- are obviously absolutely critical. Ergo
> Entertainment joined with Robert M. Johnson, our principal funder, early
on
> to help make us raise the budget for our film. In what would be a turning
> point in the film's life, they shared a short demo reel on the film with
Mr.
> Hiltzik, a Miramax senior vice president whose duties are in government
and
> corporate communications, rather than in hands-on film production. They
used
> the demo to help awaken him to the heart and soul of the film, and he, in
> turn, made PAPER CLIPS his first-ever film project at Miramax. Since then,
> he has been the film's champion at Miramax, an advocate without whom PAPER
> CLIPS might never reach the extensive audience we've all hoped for.
>     Since those early days when PAPER CLIPS brought us all together, Mr.
> Hiltzik, Mr. Epstein, Mr. Gross and Mr. Landau have all been important
> contributors to bringing the potential of our film into being, and I very
> much want your readers to be aware of that.
>
> Joe Fab
> Writer, Producer, Co-Director of PAPER CLIPS