(It’s true, look it up!) Making a self-financed, independent film is difficult period, but it’s especially hard in documentary, because you’re setting out to make a film without knowing the ending. The my chances of making it to the streaming platform were a long shot – about the same odds Las Vegas had on Eddie Braun surviving the ending of his own story. Even while writing this, I’m attempting to stave off symptoms of the strongest documented case of imposter syndrome to date. Either way, time will tell as my indie feature documentary about Eddie Braun, Stuntman, sits on the Disney+ home page, couched between such offerings as The Mandalorian and Loki, in the most surreal and thrilling setting I could ever possibly have imagined. And just when I thought I’d veered too far off the path, almost forgetting my initial reasoning for moving 3,000 miles in the first place, I met a stuntman named Eddie Braun and my life changed forever. Along the way, I detoured through the world of post-production, main title design, visual effects and commercials. I came armed with a mid-1990s filmmaker’s dream of directing a film – auteur-style, with total independence – and then selling it to a distributor. I moved to Los Angeles 25 years ago and immediately denounced my New England heritage as I embraced the culture, food, opportunities and colorful local characters of Southern California. My name is Kurt Mattila and I believe in ghosts.
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