See This Movie is a 2005

2005 in film

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 comedy movie written by David M. Rosenthal

David M. Rosenthal (director)

David Mitchell Rosenthal American writer, director and producer. He is best known for the films Falling Up and See This Movie, as well as writing and directing the forthcoming Janie Jones.-Personal life:...

 and Joseph Matthew Smith, and directed by Rosenthal. The film stars Seth Meyers

Seth Meyers

Seth Adam Meyers is an American actor and comedian. He currently serves as head writer for Saturday Night Live and hosts its news parody segment Weekend Update.-Early life:...

 and John Cho

John Cho

John Yohan Cho is an American actor and musician, best known for his roles in the American Pie films and the Harold & Kumar films . He also starred in the critically acclaimed hit film Better Luck Tomorrow...

, and also features Jessica Paré

Jessica Paré

Jessica Paré is a Canadian film and television actress. She has appeared in the films Stardom , Lost and Delirious , Wicker Park , Hot Tub Time Machine , and co-starred in the vampire horror-comedy Suck...

, Jim Piddock

Jim Piddock

James Anthony "Jim" Piddock is an English actor, writer, and producer who began his career on the stage in England, before emigrating to the U.S. in 1981.-Life and career:...

, and Jessalyn Gilsig

Jessalyn Gilsig

Jessalyn Gilsig is a Canadian actress known for her roles in the television series Boston Public, Nip/Tuck and as Will Schuester's ex-wife Terri Schuester in Glee...

, with cameo appearance

Cameo appearance

A cameo role or cameo appearance is a brief appearance of a known person in a work of the performing arts, such as plays, films, video games and television...

s by Patton Oswalt

Patton Oswalt

Patton Oswalt is an American stand-up comedian, writer, actor and voice actor. He is best known for portraying Spencer Olchin in the popular sitcom The King of Queens, voicing Remy from the film Ratatouille and Thrasher from the Cartoon Network original series Robotomy.-Early life:Oswalt was born...

, Miguel Arteta

Miguel Arteta

Miguel Arteta is a Puerto Rican director of film and television, known for his independent film Chuck & Buck , for which he received the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award.-Early life:...

, and the film's executive producers Chris Weitz

Chris Weitz

Christopher John "Chris" Weitz is an American producer, writer, director and actor. He is best known for his work with his brother, Paul Weitz, on the comedy films American Pie and About a Boy, as well as directing the film adaptation of the novel The Golden Compass and the film adaptation of New...

 and Paul Weitz

Paul Weitz (filmmaker)

Paul John Weitz is an American film producer, screenwriter, actor, and film director.-Personal life:Weitz was born in New York City, New York, the son of the actress Susan Kohner and novelist/fashion designer John Weitz, and the grandson of producer Paul Kohner and Mexican actress Lupita...

.

The plot revolves around two inept filmmakers who con their way into the Montreal World Film Festival

Montreal World Film Festival

The Montreal World Film Festival , founded in 1977, is one of Canada's oldest international film festivals and the only competitive film festival in North America accredited by the FIAPF...

 with a movie that doesn't exist.

The entire film was shot in only thirteen days, in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

 and in Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

 during and with the cooperation of the actual 2003 Montreal World Film Festival

Montreal World Film Festival

The Montreal World Film Festival , founded in 1977, is one of Canada's oldest international film festivals and the only competitive film festival in North America accredited by the FIAPF...

. Festival organizers gave the filmmakers access to all festival events and locations, and even programmed a screening for the film-within-a-film during which festival-goers screened an assembly cut of the film, and got to "play" the audience in the screening scene as it was being shot.

The film was shot with progressive scan

Progressive scan

Progressive scanning is a way of displaying, storing, or transmitting moving images in which all the lines of each frame are drawn in sequence...

 24P cameras (Panasonic DVX 100

Panasonic AG-DVX100

The Panasonic AG-DVX100 was the first affordable digital progressive scan camcorder.The camera is popular among television studios and is popular with independent film makers because of its many film-emulating features and has a large following. Currently the latest and last revision is the DVX102B...

). Rosenthal, a former cinematographer, shot numerous tests for the blow-up to film. The digital film work was done at Postworks in New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

, and the film's final look was achieved by a high-end upconversion to Hi-Def, through Teranex technology, with the ultimate output on a LaserGraphics film system.

Cast

• Jake Barrymore, played by Seth Meyers
  Seth Meyers
  Seth Adam Meyers is an American actor and comedian. He currently serves as head writer for Saturday Night Live and hosts its news parody segment Weekend Update.-Early life:...
  
  
• Larry Finkelstein, played by John Cho
  John Cho
  John Yohan Cho is an American actor and musician, best known for his roles in the American Pie films and the Harold & Kumar films . He also starred in the critically acclaimed hit film Better Luck Tomorrow...
  
  
• Martin Hughes, played by Jim Piddock
  Jim Piddock
  James Anthony "Jim" Piddock is an English actor, writer, and producer who began his career on the stage in England, before emigrating to the U.S. in 1981.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Annie Nicole, played by Jessalyn Gilsig
  Jessalyn Gilsig
  Jessalyn Gilsig is a Canadian actress known for her roles in the television series Boston Public, Nip/Tuck and as Will Schuester's ex-wife Terri Schuester in Glee...
  
  
• Samantha, played by Jessica Paré
  Jessica Paré
  Jessica Paré is a Canadian film and television actress. She has appeared in the films Stardom , Lost and Delirious , Wicker Park , Hot Tub Time Machine , and co-starred in the vampire horror-comedy Suck...
  
  
• Todd Stone, played by Rylan Wilkie

Crew

• Executive Producers Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz
• Producer Joseph M. Smith
• Co-Producers Anna Barber, Rich Roll, & Andrew Miano
• Associate Producer Craig Conolly
• Editor Conor O'Neill
• Production Designer Beatriz Kerti
• Costume Designers Jennifer Levy & Debra LeClair
• Composer Daniel Cage
• Casting Erica Arvold
• Montreal Casting Nadia Rona

Technical

RATING:	R
FORMAT:	35mm Color
SOUND:	Dolby SR.
ASPECT RATIO	1.85:1
FILMED ON LOCATION:	Los Angeles, CA, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
DISTRIBUTORS	Slamdance On The Road Allumination Home Entertainment
PRODUCTION COMPANY:	Depth of Field
FEATURING ORIGINAL MUSIC BY	Daniel Cage Attaboy & Burke Shelby Gaines Viv John Hogg Eric Hirshberg

Awards

• Winner of the 2004 Malibu Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature
• Winner of the 2004 Malibu Film Festival Andy Dick Film Scholarship Award
• Official Selection of the 2004 Sedona Film Festival
• Official Selection of the 2004 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival