What If I Could Make A Movie?

Larchmont Producer Presents Film & Memoir at the Mam'k Library: Nov 15

by Lee Stringer, president of the Friends of the Mamaroneck Library

(October 30, 2006) Forty years ago, Larchmont’s Robert Geller stepped away from a very successful creative writing teaching post at Mamaroneck High School in order to pursue what then was barely a dream. He wanted to combine his love of a well told story with his other great passion, film.

Bob Geller will be presenting a memoir and a movie.

It was a dicey move, leaving the security of a tenured teaching position for the unknowns of the silver screen. But as he relates in is his recently published memoir, What If Someday I Could Make A Movie, if you work at it hard enough, sometimes dreams come true.

Mr. Geller went on to produce 24 films for the award-winning American Short Story series on PBS. The films featured the works of James Baldwin, Saul Bellow,  Ernest Hemingway and John Updike, among others, and the talents of Blythe Danner, Jerry Stiller, Tommy Lee Jones, Ron Howard and many  more. 

Robert Geller's memoir is available in digital format from ebookMall.

Over time, Mr. Geller has added to his resume: screenwriter, founder of Learning In Focus, Inc., adjunct professor of film at Columbia University and charter board member of the Sundance Institute.

The Friends of the Mamaroneck Library invite the community to join them on Wednesday, November 15 at 8 pm when Mr. Geller presents both his memoir and a 42-minute film adaptation of The Sky is Gray, Ernest J. Gaines’ bittersweet story of one boy’s sojourn into the heart of a hostile southern town. 

MORE DETAILS ON THE NOV 15 PROGRAM: As always, the Friends program is offered free to the public in the Community Room at the Mamaroneck Public Library at 136 Prospect Avenue in the Village of Mamaroneck. Enter from the Emelin Theatre lobby on Library Lane. There will be refreshments, provided by Cafe Mozart.

Lee Stringer, the author of Grand Central Winter and other works, is the President of the Friends of the Mamaroneck Library.

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