Ruth & Ray left their beloved New York City just over 5 years ago to have Pablo in semi-affordable Bloomington Indiana. There they came to know Mitch Teplitsky, another New Yorker taking what has turned out to be a prolonged sabbatical in the Midwest – and also feeling a little “seller’s remorse” about it. But “everything happens for a reason,” they say, and in Mitch’s case he met fellow documentary filmmaker Charles Pearce and began work on their forthcoming film about the largest LGBTQ Pride Center in any rural community in America. Listen to Mitch & Charles detail what they found right next door in Spencer Indiana, Mitch’s memories of his many years in NYC, where he had a front row seat to the famed Lincoln Center Film Society, his tale of making his two best-known films in Peru and meeting his wife there, and his most recent run with Indy’s largest independent bookstore Morgensterns.
Time-stamp
00:00 Mitch, how we met, #Morgensterns, #LincolnCenter #FilmSociety, New York City, #NYC, #Bloomington IN
0:03:15 Ray’s book #Watchdogs, Ruth’s critique, Ray compares self to Dostoyevsky #DoucheAlert
0:04:30 NYC, love, Joan Didion, #TheRentIsTooDamnHigh
0:07:00 Ruth the Documentarian
0:09:30 Ruth the @VeganishVegetarian chef, influencer, Ray hates exercise!, smoking, childhood friend Indianapolis prosecutor Ryan Mears
0:16:00 Meet Mitch & Charles, Yiddish, #Austin TX, burning out in Commercials, #Midwest
0:18:45 The Film Kid Story, #A&E #ShippingWars, Follow your curiosity. Scorsese Schroeder Bringing Out the Dead
0:23:45 Mitch’s Documentary Top List, Lincoln Center Film Society, 1990s in New York, #SexintheCity, city people, Ruth’s NYC origin story, #London, #Chicago, #Argentina, The #Bronx!, #Jersey, #Vonnegut, NYC philosophy, Jackie #Kennedy
0:27:15 Ray’s Chicago, Mitch’s Bronx - Where are you from?, Jewish family, storytelling origin story, finding my people (documentary people)
0:36:00 Lincoln Center Film Society stories
0:38:00 The #Peru Films
1:00:00 Why are we in Bloomington IN?
1:03:00 #SpencerPride
1:18:45 Documentary Filmmaker - Outsider becomes Insider
1:21:45 #Spencer IN, American small town, a real Villain in town, #Karen, social contacts
Find Mitch Teplisky and the Spencer Pride movie:
https://www.mitchellteplitsky.com/
Crowdfunding campaign coming in next months!
Find Charles Pearce:
IG @crpearcecreative
https://www.linkedin.com/in/crpearce/
Follow & message Ruth:
IG @RuthVaca
IG @VeganishVegetarian
Follow & message Ray:
X @RayNowosielski
IG @BigPlayRay2023
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