![]() This is a far more liberating experience."īurns expedited the filmmaking process to get "Newlyweds" finished in time for the Tribeca Film Festival. Sure, I could have gotten a couple million dollars to make this movie, but I didn't want to. "It was almost like the actors forgot we were making a movie. "With a small camera and crew, we could walk around on the street and enter restaurants and no one would pay attention to us," he says. He had the actors wear their own clothes and interact with real people who had no idea they were on a movie set. To make "Newlyweds," Burns used his own Canon 5D camera and did without makeup artists or boom mikes or lights. I know most of the restaurant owners and they allowed me to film in their businesses." "We shot every scene but one in Tribeca because this is where I have lived for the last 10 years. ![]() "I knew I couldn't pay the actors financially, but I could write for them a part where they could shine," says Burns. In typical Burns style, the film was shot in 12 days on a $9,000 budget (His breakdown: $5,000 for actors, $2,000 for insurance and $2,000 for "food and drink"). Starring Burns, Caitlin Fitzgerald, Max Baker, Marsha Dietlein Bennett and Kerry Bishé, "Newlyweds" chronicles the trials and tribulations of a recently married couple. ![]()
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