Bill Hartin
CEO/Founder of FIFO & Cinema & Suds - "Stay creative yet disciplined."
Screenwriter, Filmmaker, Producer, Director, Songwriter and Actor
Easton, Pennsylvania
November 2012
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About Bill
My pre-Lehigh Valley, PA career is itemized below, but after swimming against the strong upstream current we all know as FILMMAKING, I launched FIFO (Fade in/Fade Out), a Lehigh Valley-based, non-profit filmmaking consortium, with the ambitious goal of harnessing all the diverse talent and resources around here to raise the filmmaking bar and cultivate filmmaking. So if you're interested, let me know...we meet every first Tuesday of the month at the Two Rivers Brewing Company, 542 Northampton St., Easton, PA at 6:30 p.m.
Looking back - During a circuitous but never boring career, three main interests - writing, photography and performing - collided when I discovered filmmaking. Now I write screenplays, short stories, the occasional novel and follow my natural entrepreneurial spirit, all the while continuing to hone my filmmaking skills.
FIFO produces short films based on screenplays from a variety of sources, in an effort to help other filmmaking creatives realize their dreams and goals. CINEMA & SUDS is a celebration of short films and craft beers, aimed specifically at garnering exposure for filmmakers by showcasing short films at brewpubs.
Unique traits: Usually a pretty nice guy, sometimes almost to a fault.
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Loglines
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Lauderdale Budget: $5M - $10M | Historical ⋄ Drama Spring Break, 1967, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida - Tens of thousands of college students make history at the Elbo Room, Highway A1A, the iconic beach, tear gas, curfews, and sex, drugs and rock 'n roll. Toby Reed - former Heisman Trophy shoe-in - finds his true calling, true love and an unexpected clarity amidst the youthful frenzy known as LAUDERDALE.
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Acoustic Memories Budget: $1M - $5M | Music ⋄ Independent Think Jeff Bridges in CRAZY HEART and Jeff Daniels from the final episode of NEWSROOM, singing "That's How I Got to Memphis" - two former hot shot country stars trying to find the magic again, only this time it is at Open Mics and county fairs. Then they meet the unlikely upstart band, Saddle Boys...
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Key West Budget: $5M - $10M | Action ⋄ Crime ⋄ Drama Reed Morales stole millions of laundered drug cartel money, faked his own death by windsurfing to Cuba to flee both the Feds and drug thugs closing in...but he hadn't planned on the Redhead.
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THE QUEEN OF HALSTED Crime ⋄ Drama ⋄ Thriller A tough, soft-hearted PI/Paralegel must use both qualities to save her former bosses - two disgraced Chicago lawyers - to save a homeless mission from a mob lawyer's need to launder his ill-gotten money.
Credits
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DAD (
2019 )
Film (short) by FIFO/Bill Hartin Writer/Producer A son's joyride in his dying father's vintage '70 Chevy Nova estranges the two, until his mother summons him for a reunion with his deceased father. -
Tales From the Road: Movies & Brews (
2015 )
Film (short) by FIFO (Fade In/Fade Out) Writer, Director, Producer -
WHAT'S YOUR STORY? (
2015 )
Film (short) by FIFO (Fade In/Fade Out) Writer/Director/Producer -
The Making of TIGERS IN THE SOUP (
2014 )
Film (short) by FIFO (Fade In/Fade Out) Producer/Director -
TIGERS IN THE SOUP (
2014 )
Film (short) by FIFO/FireRock Productions Exec. Producer -
THE BLITHERING IDIOT (
2014 )
Film (short) by FIFO (Fade In/Fade Out) Producer/Director -
THE WRITER'S MUSE (
2010 )
Film (short) by Hartin House Projects Writer/Director -
Movies At The Mill/SILK (
2009 )
Commercial by Movies At The Mill Writer/Narrator -
NOVAMAN (
2009 )
Film (short) by Hartin House Projects Writer/Producer/Lead
Awards
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Best Film Short, Pocono Mountains Film Festival
(2010)
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