The Director
ARON CAMPISANO

In an uncanny parallel to the lives of directors Jason Reitman and Eric Eisner, I grew-up in the hotbed of Indie film, Santa Rosa, CA, and my father was a Gynecologist.
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- I made this movie, The Master Plan. Watch it now!
- I am currently making Adventure!!!, a psychological thriller.
- My production company is called Alchemistic.
- I’m also on Vimeo and ExposureRoom
- I don’t hate people. I hate cantalope.
- Email me via the contact form at the bottom of this page. Whoo!
Actually, I was kind of a photography prodigy way back when, and even though my high-school grades were like ehhh (I was a little too into riding my road racing bike), I got into NYU film school on the strength of my portfolio and the recommendations of a director and producer I worked for in LA in the late ’80′s. Schwarzenegger movies. i.e. “You shouldn’t drink… and bake!”
After NYU, I realized I was never going to win the Tour De France, and became convinced that Jean-Luc Godard would be making CD-ROMs if he were 57 years younger. So, I got into the then “multimedia” industry, eventually working as a producer for Disney Interactive and CNET. My specialty was CD-ROM and Internet video.
Note to self: DON’T MENTION CD-ROMS AGAIN.
In the later 90′s, it seemed everyone was getting rich on the Internet but me, so I left CNET to start my own company, which eventually became Filmspeed, one of the first online video distributors. I ran Filmspeed for about 5 years, and we eventually tanked because we were 8 years ahead of our time and grossly underfunded. Once, after an hour long pitch with a lot of dry erasing and random hand waving, I actually had a well-known venture capitalist bark at me, “You’re telling me you can play movies on the Internet?!!” Ah, the twentieth century.
Anyways, somehow I had gone from Art Film Dork to That Internet Video Guy, which never sat well with me (I also put on 25 pounds and shopped a lot at Banana Republic), so after I lost my ass at Filmspeed, I figured now was the best time to make that feature film I wrote in college. Of course, that’s The Master Plan. (“Ass” as in what Mary and Joseph rode into Bethlehem.)
I recently founded a new kind of digital film company, Alchemistic. Our first feature film was The Master Plan, and I’m currently producing/directing a twentysomething “eco-thriller” called Adventure!!!. Next is B-3, a psychological sci-fi about a female bomber pilot.
I also recently co-founded SonomaFilm, a non-profit focus body for the expansion of film in Sonoma County, CA. And I’m kicking-around a documentary.
You can email me using the horrible form below! It actually works!
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