Alessandro Camon is an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter ( The Messenger), playwright (Time Alone) and former Head of Production at Pressman Films. His production credits with Pressman include A…
, he produced some of the most indelible films of his era. Terrence Malick, Oliver Stone, Brian De Palma, Kathryn Bigelow, Abel Ferrara, Mary Harron, Jason Reitman and David Gordon Green are just a few among the many great filmmakers whose work he championed, often early in their careers. He loved discovering talent and promoting new voices. He gravitated toward the rebels, the outsiders, the mavericks and rule-breakers. He loved doing things differently.
During our time together at Pressman Films, we made dozens of films all over the spectrum of genre, budget, quality and success. The good ones were really good, and even the bad ones sometimes achieved legendary status . Ed’s brain had no hard boundaries between art and commerce, highbrow and lowbrow, serious drama and pure fun. He had time for dreams tiny and huge, for the veteran and the neophyte, the luminary and the lunatic.
You might say that there was a paradoxical quality about Ed: He was quietly formidable. He stood out without trying – or, in fact, trying not to. People didn’t always know what to make of him, but he knew how to use that to his advantage. I remember when he befriended DMX, at the height of his fame, and persuaded him to star in a low-budget film called. We were warned that X didn’t take a call time very seriously and always would be at least two hours late.
He was also very good at asking for advice. He would always enlist people to look at a budget or a script or an early cut and to give their suggestions or recommend someone for something. People usually would agree, because they knew that Ed actually listened. His superpower was humility. Of course, he was also quite capable of fighting, and even getting mad, but he didn’t typically hold grudges, and it wasn’t easy to hold a grudge against him. He would just wait it out, and circle back.
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