Mitchell Teplitsky

Director/Producer Mitch Teplitsky is a documentary producer and marketing consultant. This is his first film. It took him long enough! Back in the 70’s he used to annoy his sisters with a super-8 camera in suburban New Jersey. Somehow he ended up at Wharton Business School and worked for companies like Viacom, Arbitron, MTV and the NY Times. Fortunately he got laid off. That forced him to remember what he used to really like to do - tell stories. He bought his first movie camera in 20 years, and called the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

Mitch 4 Copy-3He became the Film Society’s first-ever marketing director. On weekends, he headed to the Bronx to videotape his grandma. Or to Jersey for Peruvian parties with long-time friend Nelida. One day, Neli told Mitch she was returning to Peru for a festival — wanna come? Hmm....He bought a new camera and began annoying - er, documenting - Nelida and Cynthia all over Peru, and back to Jersey. Talk about coming full circle.

UPDATE: Mitch is working on new projects. Read more on his website.