ABOUT

DAVE ROSENBERG
Writer/Producer/Actor “Ricky”

INSPIRED BY TRUE EVENTS

Around 2003, I was eating lunch at Cosi Restaurant in Union Square, NYC, when I saw a guy who I had been traumatized by in my childhood. I told my two best friends, Andrea Modica and Dinh Doan. Andrea said, "You have to confront this guy" and Dinh said, "You have to write about this". I set about doing both. Andrea started "training" me through boxing and chess. I eventually confronted my Nemesis at a bar in downtown Manhattan. Meanwhile, for the next 5 years, Andrea, Dinh and I co-created the story of "The Reunion". We would get together to brainstorm the story and improvise scenes, and then I would go off and write.

In 2008, we held a staged reading which garnered much attention and accolades, but we were unable to raise the money in the depths of the economic recession. In 2018, with some seed money, the project was reborn and revitalized. We went into pre-production in the Fall of 2019 and shot the movie in Manhattan and Brooklyn, guerilla-style for 16 days in June of 2019.

The Reunion is a passion project created by three friends, following in the footsteps of similar films born by brotherhood, such as “Swingers”, “Good Will Hunting” and “Blindspotting". The movie illuminates New York City in the way movies like “Annie Hall”, “Manhattan” and “Taxi Driver” did in the 1970’s.

Making this movie has been my life-long endeavor. It’s taken almost 2 decades to make. It’s the product of almost 100 dedicated filmmakers, collaborating on the East Coast and West Coast, for little to no money, on a very low budget, with all the creativity, talent, grit and determination of a Scorsese film. We are very proud of this little gem called “The Reunion” and can't wait to share it with you!