WENDELL LAURENT; Actor; Writer, Filmmaker; Directorial debut, ‘The Dumbletons,’ screening Garden State Film Festival; LIVE from NYC (from New Orleans)

#realconversations #direector #actor #writer #NewOrleans#Cuba #heist #reconciliation CONVERSATIONS WITH CALVIN — WE THE SPECIESHosted by Calvin SchwartzMeet WENDELL LAURENT “For me, the Hollywood film romantic,getting to interview a first-time director and an award-winning actor, is thebest of times. And it was. And I was so intrigued by Wendell’s quintessentialbackground that I wanted introspection, heaviness, depth, and insight intofilmmaking and directing. With Wendell’s youth in New Orleans (a great place tobe from). I knew a special energy existed. Accommodation.  Everything I delved into, Wendell illuminated.Hugely fascinating, articulate, pensive, and devoted to his craft. Hiscreation, The Dumbletons. A blending of a heist comedy with family drama. Ilove the premise. And we need to laugh these days. Embedded is the wordreconciliation. Then, Wendell talked about the scoring by Vin Scialla. Things Inever think about. And his collaboration is what makes a creative partnershiplast. I kept apologizing for being heavy. He responded once with ‘Taxi Driver.’And mentioned the great singer, Richard Carpenter. There is much more here. Iwas about to bring up his feature film ‘Havana Coyotes.’ An abrupt stop. Whichmeans Wendell is coming back here to talk about his Cuban adventure.” Calvin🎙️ 700+ Interviews &Videos📺 9,400+ Subscribers —and growing👉 Please Subscribe:https://www.youtube.com/c/ConversationswithCalvinWetheSpecIEsGLOBAL Reach. Earth Life. Amazing People.**WENDELL LAURENT; Actor; Writer, Filmmaker; Directorialdebut, ‘The Dumbletons,’ screening Garden State Film Festival; LIVE from NYC(from New Orleans)YouTube:THE DUMBLETONS LOGLINE: When his mother receives grave medical news, WalterDumbleton is forced to reconcile with his reclusive brother Stan in order tocarry out a harebrained scheme to pay for their mother's life saving operation.BIO: WENDELL LAURENT is an award-winning actor, writer andfilmmaker based in New York. He is making his directorial debut with THEDUMBLETONS, which he also wrote and produced.A native of New Orleans, Wendell is a graduate of LoyolaUniversity. He also spent some time honing his performance skills inChattanooga, TN, before moving to New York in 1990.Wendell acted in and wore several hats on twomulti-award-winning short films, DAYBREAK, which he wrote and co-produced andTHE FINAL WALK, which he co-wrote and co-produced.He made his feature film debut as the lead in ANEXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR, written and directed by Benjamin Orifici, and plays thetitle character in the upcoming indie-comedy feature WALTER’S WISH.As a writer and producer, Wendell collaborated with BenjaminOrifici on the award-winning short POSTDEMIC and the feature film HAVANACOYOTES, which was shot entirely in Cuba with an all-Cuban cast.He is currently developing the feature version of the filmDAYBREAK.**SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:https://www.instagram.com/wendelllaurenthttps://www.instagram.com/dumbletonsmoviehttps://www.facebook.com/wen.laurenthttps://www.facebook.com/dumbletonsmovie**WE ARE ALSO ON AUDIOAUDIO “Conversations with Calvin; WE the SpecIEs”ANCHOR https://lnkd.in/g4jcUPqSPOTIFY https://lnkd.in/ghuMFeCAPPLE PODCASTSBREAKER https://lnkd.in/g62StzJGOOGLE PODCASTS https://lnkd.in/gpd3XfMPOCKET CASTS https://pca.st/bmjmzaitRADIO PUBLIC https://lnkd.in/gxueFZw