Shooting scenes without a location permit, asking actors and crew to take salary cuts, financing all the costs out of your own pocket and paying off extortionists - welcome to the wonderful world of independent filmmaking.
Jon Cryer has it better than most, though, and he'd probably even admit that himself. As an established actor with a few bucks in the bank, and with a previous film already under his belt, Cryer wasn't in too far over his head when he and filmmaking partner Richard Schenkman teamed up for Went to Coney Island on a Mission From God ... Be Back By Five, showing tonight as part of the Local Heroes International Film Festival.
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