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The Sullivan Brothers Triumphant Return to Melbourne with "I'll Believe You"

At this year's Melbourne Independent Filmmakers Festival, there will be a very special homecoming. In 2003, two brothers set out to make their first feature film initially titled "First Time Caller". This production brought a flurry of Hollywood talent to Melbourne. Patrick Warburton (Seinfeld, Rules of Engagement), Ed Helms (The Hangover, The Office), Chris Elliot (There's Something About Mary), and David Alan Basche (War of the Worlds, Royal Pains) and many more were seen filming their science-fiction comedy adventure all over town.

After the filming wrapped, many believed Hollywood would have discovered the maverick Sullivan brothers and Brevard County in the process and they would be back again and again to drink deeply from the wonderful delights of our community. That didn't happen.. at least not overnight.

On November 14th, the Sullivan Brothers, filmstar Patrick Gallo, and film editor Greg Lee have volunteered to return to Melbourne to show never before seen clips from the making of the film which is now titled "I'll Believe You"and has been doing brisk business in DVD sales.

They are planning on showing their documentary Perfect Imperfection: The Making and Saving of I'll Believe You on Saturday, November 14th followed by a frank and honest discussion (with Q&A) detailing what they did right and what they did wrong.

Writer/Producer Ted Sullivan reminds us that "We sincerely would like to help the filmmakers of Florida learn how to go into their next (or first!) production. There are so many hard lessons we learned and I'd ideally love to run it like a college lecture followed by a session where people could ask anything they wanted."

Watch them struggle, fail and ultimately succeed to steer their film away from oblivion and into a national theatrical release. The documentary features never-before-seen behind the scenes footage, interviews and outtakes with stars Patrick Warburton, Ed Helms, Chris Elliott, Fred Willard, David Alan Basche, Patrick Gallo and CeCe Pleasants.

This once-in-a-lifetime-opportunity workshop will be part of the Melbourne Independent Filmmakers Festival and will take place Nov 14th at 1:00 pm at the Premiere Theaters Oaks Stadium 10. Tickets are on-sale now for $10.00 at www.oaks10.com.