Our team is seeking to create a short 20-minute film based on a one-act play staged at actor Tom Noonan's Paradise Factory theater in New York City in June 2025, where it received rave reviews. The film will involve actors and crew from Paradise Factory (paradisefactory.org) and will take approximately three days to shoot and several weeks to edit, mix, and color correct. We hope to screen the film in festivals and at our theater as a fundraiser for Paradise Factory.

The film is titled That Picture of You. And the tag line reads, "A world-renowned photographer. His former student. Their illicit past. And the incident that threatens to ruin them both." It is a taut drama about power dynamics, responsibility, and the use and misuse of art. One person’s post-#MeToo apocalypse is another’s window of opportunity. That Picture of You is a wicked, unsparing look at life on the edge of artistic ethos vs. personal responsibility. 

You can download a pdf deck for this project here: http://bit.ly/46ylrzH.

The Team
Eric Maierson (writer/producer) is a two-time Emmy-winning video editor and producer. His work has appeared on websites for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post and Time. Most recently he co-wrote and edited the 5-episode Webby-honoree podcast “Covering Their Tracks” for Tablet. 

Previously, he was a senior editor at Blue Chalk Media. He also served as senior producer at MediaStorm, a documentary production company. There, he edited close to 100 films, including the feature The Distance Between Us. 

His short films have played at film festivals across the country, and his prose has appeared in The New Yorker, Playboy, and Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney’s Book of Lists. He is also the writer and director of the critically acclaimed theatrical play Reprise.

His website is www.ericmaierson.com.

Sean Patrick Folster (director, actor) is an actor, director, musician, teacher, coach, and consultant in New York City. He has recurred on four different TV series and appeared in over 30 plays and over 20 films. He runs his own acting studio in NYC, The Folster Studio, which for 15 years has helped a new generation of actors learn and study their craft and book meaningful work in films, on TV, and in the theater. He is a happy and proud member of the Paradise Factory, where he has appeared numerous times. He lives in the Bronx.

A theater kid originally from Houston, Katie Moore (actor) moved to New York nine years ago for a successful modeling career. She is internationally known for her print and runway work, including opening for Alexander Wang and walking for Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, and numerous other brands. She is now finally returning to her first love: acting. The process of putting up That Picture of You at Paradise Factory was one of the most gratifying and artistically humbling experiences of her life, and she can’t wait to translate it to the screen.