Talk:Mike Valerio

References and notability
The references for this article are as follows:
 * http://www.docmoviemaker.tv/
 * Subject's own website. Not independent.


 * http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/439621/Carlo-s-Wake/overview
 * Directory listing for Carlo's Wake. Not significant coverage.


 * http://www.variety.com/article/VR105786.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
 * Trivial mention as production staff of future film.


 * http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0884563/
 * IMDB directory listing.


 * http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/imdb_index.jsp?page=/name/nm0884563/
 * Hollywood reporter director listing.


 * http://www.interactla.org/site/taravella.html
 * Passing reference in bio on wife of subject. Not RS, not independent.


 * http://articles.latimes.com/1994-08-29/local/me-32533_1_battered-women
 * Passing reference in article on his wife. Not significant coverage.


 * http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/31/movies/at-the-movies-this-summer-noise-matters.html?pagewanted=2
 * Brief mentions in relation to Carlo's Wake. Not significant coverage of either subject or film.


 * http://www.hollywoodclassicsusa.com/listings.htm
 * Listing as director of Carlo's Wake (no other text) on website of the film's promoter. Not independent, not significant coverage.


 * http://www.film-festival.org/awardswin00.php
 * Rhode Island Film Festival website showing this film as a winner. Not a "major award for excellence" per WP:NF.


 * http://www.film-festival.org/pdf/2000films.PDF
 * Listing for RIFF. See previous comment.


 * http://www.theasc.com/magazine/mar99/shooting/pg1.htm
 * Coverage of Carlo's Wake, with some details on the subject, in specialist industry publication.


 * http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117760173.html?categoryid=18&cs=1
 * Passing mention in executive moves.


 * http://www.allbusiness.com/services/motion-pictures/4804524-1.html
 * Even more passing mention of post described in Variety.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-108883202.html
 * Directory search results.

None of these sources gives rise to a conclusion of notability per guidelines. Neither does anything I was able to find with. Note that despite the film festival award, Carlo's Wake doesn't seem to have received any reviews in reliable sources. Bongo  matic  02:37, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Notability
Hello, Thank you for attempting thorough research. Please take the time to read to the end of the NYTimes article though to see that Valerio is interviewed and talked under his own section "Daydream Come True" for 8 large paragraphs. You wrote: "Brief mentions in relation to Carlo's Wake. Not significant coverage of either subject or film" in regards to this NYTimes article. Take a look again, I've pasted it below. The "passing" mentions of executive moves are because that's how they do it. Entertainment industry people (whom I enjoy writing about) don't give much attention to executive moves except to mention them briefly in general unless they're Michael Eisner. Grand Prize at Rhode Island Film Festival is not a "major award for excellence"? Variety magazine is an industry publication, yes, but it's a highly circulated & influential one. It's not "Cat Fancy." Variety (magazine). If you read the NYTimes article and the other articles you'll see that it was a critical success and notable for it's being a director's first feature and managing to include two oscar winners. Carlo's Wake came out before the onslaught of reviews found online but it's considered a great, great film. I can find many more but just the NYTimes article alone (if read in its entirety) establishes clear notability. NYTIMES Article- July 31, 1998

Daydream Come True

You spend years producing and directing promotional spots for television shows, but you dream of making a feature-length movie. You have a script, written with your wife. You even get a small production company interested, and all you need is an actor or two with just a bit of a reputation.  And then you suddenly find yourself with two Oscar winners eager to play roles.

Mike Valerio (above) admitted that that was, at one time anyway, his daydream, but that it had now come true, much like an old-fashioned Hollywood tale, as he was preparing to direct his first feature film, Carlo's Wake, with Martin Landau and Rita Moreno. The movie is being produced by Triple Axel Productions.

Though the project has been years in the making, Mr. Valerio, 40, admitted to a frisson of delight that he was finally moving ahead. He said he was concentrating on how to make the oddball comedy seem fresh, and especially on how to make it a movie rather than a two-hour sitcom, a common pitfall for directors who come from television.

Carlo's Wake began as a play written by Mr. Valerio's wife, Rosie Taravella, and based on real experiences. '''The play was a poignant and humorous account of her father's wake; the colorful members of the extended family who attended the event and the woman who did not, Carlo's estranged wife, Angela. Lies, secrets and, eventually, truths about the family spill out as its members take account of Carlo's life and joust with each other over his legacy.''' What the audience must come to terms with, Mr. Valerio said, is whether ultimately Carlo's wife was justified in running off with her husband's brother.

Carlo is a bit of a scoundrel, so it's a dark-edged comedy, Mr. Valerio said. ''But what happens is the children all see the dead man differently. It's like they're talking about a different man. The audience doesn't know what to think because they only know what they're told by the characters. It's not a gross-out comedy like some of the ones that are popular now. It's darker.''

The film's budget is $2.5 million, which is a reasonably hefty sum for a small, independent film with an ensemble cast, and it will be shot in Santa Monica. It's a big step for Mr. Valerio, who at one time directed what he described as a porno puppet show for the Playboy channel before focusing on promotional spots for television shows.

Over 10 years, I directed most of the best actors in television, he said. ''It was just for a short time for each promotion, but I worked with everyone from Dick Van Dyke to Cheech Marin. You learn a lot working with people like that.''

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Also, about: "* http://www.variety.com/article/VR105786.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

Trivial mention as production staff of future film." SCR means Screenwriter (as mentioned in the key at the top of the page. Hardly "trivial mention as production staff" in fact, not production staff at all. I appreciate your checking references, all of us should, just take the time to actually read them.

Thank you for your review though, I am still learning as well. Yours, StewartNetAddict (talk) 12:34, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

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