As an aspiring North Carolina filmmaker, Dreambridge Films founder Todd J. Labarowski literally broke into the business. “I went down to Carolco Studios (in North Carolina), finagled my way past the guard and unknowingly walked into a casting director’s office,” he recalls.
Since landing that extra job on “Matlock” 21 years ago, he’s climbed the production ranks, joined the DGA and helped finance some of the most acclaimed indies in recent years: “The Kids Are All Right,” “Bernie” and the Weinstein Co. Toronto pickup “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and Her.” Yet he still works in the trenches on somewhat less highbrow projects, most recently doing a second a.d. gig on Cinemax’s “Banshee.”
“I’m definitely an oxymoron in the industry,” says the busy but laidback exec producer, who spends more time on sets than in his Gotham office. “It makes me a better producer when I can understand the logistics of what’s happening.”
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