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“1 2 3” is Napolitan Productions’ first feature length movie. It was shot in the winter of 1999.

After hearing the true-life incidents of Jared and his three simultaneous girlfriends, producer-editor Steven Napolitan was inspired to base a movie on the story. Napolitan and a film school friend, writer-director Michael Picarella, had always hoped to make a full-length movie together and this was the project they chose to do.

Napolitan and Picarella didn’t have the funding to shoot “1 2 3” on film and they wanted to get shooting right away, so they didn’t stop to raise funds. On a budget of no more than $1,000 from their own pockets, they shot the movie on digital video.

It was Picarella who said if they were going to shoot on video, that it should be for a reason other than budget. He proposed to Napolitan that the movie look like reality shows, which are primarily shot on video.

Napolitan and Picarella agreed and shot the movie from inside closets, under cover in bushes or behind trees. Some footage looked as if it were from a documentary. That was the plan.

Napolitan and Picarella shot “1 2 3” in seven days in Tracy, California. They spent almost seven months editing the project.

In September of 2000, “1 2 3” premiered in Tracy to an audience of about 300 people. The screening went well, according to many that attended.

In June of 2001, “1 2 3” was accepted and screened at the Chicago International Film and Video Festival. The movie was well received and attracted investors for the upcoming Napolitan-Picarella film, “Punchcard Player.”

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In 2002, Napolitan and Picarella revisited “1 2 3.” The project had never turned out as they originally intended and they set out to improve it. They brought the guerilla crew back together again and re-shot a few key scenes and added several others.

After a re-edit, color correction and a digital sound mix, “1 2 3” was completed in the summer of 2003 and is “more acceptable,” as Napolitan and Picarella would put it.

The new version was accepted and screened at the New York International Film and Video Festival in Los Angeles in September of 2003. The movie was again well received.
“1 2 3” is available on DVD with many special features including behind-the-scenes footage, outtakes, two filmmaker commentaries and filmmaker filmographies.

To get “1 2 3” on DVD, call Napolitan Productions toll free at 1-877-561-FILM (3456).