About

I have a story about the origination of “Espresso Films” that I believe needs telling.  Back in the 80s, when I was a young and up and coming screenwriter, also dabbling in Film Financing and acting and exploring many of the other avenues on how to make money in the movie industry while waiting for my screenplays to hit gold, I ran into a very interesting fellow screenwriter and aspiring film director and ex-actor, Howard Delman.

As it turned out, Howard and I became particularly good friends.  It just seemed our personalities meshed.  Being ex-Navy, I was down to earth for a filmmaker and so was Howard.  He impressed me on who in the industry he knew and what he had done so I decided to help him direct his first film.  We found a screenplay we both agreed would work and became business partners with the writer and his producer.  I would be the executive producers.  We then had a great time trolling Hollywood parties, going to meetings with want-to-be filmmakers trying to get their gigs done, creating relationships especially with actors and managers, and meeting with finance people.

In our efforts to get Howard’s film directorial debut off the planning stage and into production, Howard came up with a magnificent name for a film company that we decided to create for our new project:  Espresso Films and Coffee Company.  Wow!!! I was impressed and the name stuck with me.  His idea was to produce our film and begin our film distribution through coffee houses.  I was impressed.

For one reason or another, Howard and I were not able to bring our first film to production and it finally faded.  We lost touch in about 2000, before Facebook and other social media platforms, however, in about 2017 I reconnected to my old friend thanks to LinkedIn.  Howard went on to be a successful financier and had a deal that he was working to revitalize the failing US malls into entertainment centers.  We then revived Espresso Film and Coffee company, and I created a website in 2017.  It was just an HTML website with black and white photos of aged actors. 

It was not SEO’d and the intent was not to make money off the website but to have an online document explaining our film business intent within the mulls. We then lost a key investor and the proposition again vanished.

This year, in 2020, since we have formed a Digital Marketing company with top-rated talent, we have decided to create an online campaign for Short Film and Indie producers to distribute their films and create the almighty important “buzz.”   We call the entity “Espresso Films” and this is our website.  We also provide great film and Espresso Film editorials and we will move into other facets of the Indie industry.

Build Up Team – Espresso Films

billyLAx has also hired two highly skilled aspiring movie directors, Maxx TEE and CC bel, who are currently putting together their first films.  They also help billy in efforts to commercialize Espresso Film’s movie site as well as developing a series of related independent film websites working in conjunction with the Espresso films site. 

Maxx TEE and CC bel are tied at the hip with billy and Espresso Films.  I say this in a contractual meaning.  The development of their individual film projects and their involvement in the digital marketing of the movie websites are integrated into one film company and one profit center.  billy’s strategy involves bringing into the company top-rated talents such as Maxx TEE and CC bel for further quality development of Espresso Films.

Engaging Social Media-Espresso Films

Each company addition will be carefully selected from the most promising of the new filmmakers with little or no politics made in the selection.  billy selects from pure talent as the first requirement but a close second is the work attitude of the new film professional.

The company is building a massive social media presence in Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapshot, Tic Tok, Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn.  Our profits come from a large extent, in monetizing our movie website and our social media.   CC bel and Maxx TEE are creating massive horizontal social media networks to take their film careers to new levels and kick their first independent movies off.  billyLAx has his hand’s full coaching all the new young film talent with his 30 years of screenplay writing and digital marketing expertise. 

Design patterns – Espresso Films

Zalak Patel brings her extraordinary talent to the board, designing and developing not only the website and social media but the company’s branding.  The company also has outside contributors to enhance the company’s digital l expertise to thrillingly high levels.  The company’s outside contributors, both domestically, and from non-domestic sources operate as a loyal team under the direction of billy and Zalak.  The company intends to spin its business off into Website SEO and social media development focusing on the film industry.

Espresso Film intends to create expertise in digital marketing of Independent Film and Film Shorts.  We will be the film industry leader in delivering digital data and reporting on independent film to the film-makers we will also be the place to go to get that all-important digital marketing campaign designed and delivered to the Indie producers.