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- Height5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
- Bob Freville is a writer and filmmaker from New York. His work as a journalist has spanned more than two decades, starting with publication in small New York-based newspapers like The Babylon Beacon and Good Times Magazine before flooding the internet. He has contributed to Creem, Get Underground, Horror Sleaze Trash, Ink Mag, Kotori, and Kush, among others.
Today, Freville maintains a Substack newsletter entitled The Modern Custodian, which is infrequently updated with in-depth news reporting, entertainer interviews, cartoons, criticism, and more.
His film career began with enrollment in a Digital Filmmaking Class at Huntington, NY's Cinema Arts Centre, where he worked on the Glenn Andreiev film "Sharp & Sudden." Freville worked as a Production Intern.
In 2004, he raised $3,000 with co-producer Jake McGee, to shoot his first short feature film. "Of Bitches & Hounds," an avant-garde allegory about domestic abuse from the point of view of a man-dog, was shot on location in Kent, Ohio, in the apartment star/co-producer Jake McGee, had been renting with co-star Melissa King.
After creative differences with two consecutive film editors, "Of Bitches & Hounds" finally wrapped post-production in 2007. The film saw its premiere at the unlikely Peabody's Rockstar, a Cleveland night spot famous for industrial rock music. It was subsequently rejected by all major film festivals.
2007 marked Freville's official acting debut in the duel roles of Mason and Johnny in James Neyman's "The Slasher." Freville, McGee and Neyman would go on to work together on 2009's "Irish Car Bomb".
Freville wrote, produced and directed his first long feature film, under his and McGee's new production company Intrepid Aspirations, LLC. "Hemo," a dramatic send-up of vampirism and addiction, was distributed by Troma Team Releasing.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Intrepid Aspirations, LLC
- Female vocalists usually voice the songs over Freville's end credits
- Extended dream sequences
- Freville frequently wears hats and/or sunglasses when acting in others' motion pictures.
- Uses both modern indie rock and Oldies pop songs on his soundtracks
- Half-missing tooth
- Injured his vertebrae falling out a window while shooting a scene for James Neyman's "The Slasher.".
- At the Peabody's Rockstar premiere of his short feature "Of Bitches & Hounds," he warned the crowd of the threat of cattle prods if they didn't like his movie.
- Bob was fired from a freelancing gig at Good Times Magazine for using "overly collegiate language." The paper was, ironically, geared toward a college crowd.
- During principal photography on "The Irish Car Bomb" (2010), Freville and McGee performed their own stunts. One scene required Freville to be kicked repeatedly in the testicles. To perform said stunt he wore a crotch guard that was less than effective and suffered bruising and severe fatigue.
- Has written numerous concert and film reviews for the likes of Long Island Press, Kotori Magazine, Good Times Magazine and KillingBoxx, among others.
- ...my films always evolve out of a combination of personal experience, observation and sudden lightbulb burning.
- The most influential [filmmakers] are the people who manage to make their films for peanuts and pubic hair, ya know?
- I was up on a platform kind of f***ing the air and penetrating the space in front of their faces with the camera. It was a new approach and one that I expect to use in the future.
- Today we don't spin around until we conjure the Lord. Now, we drop bombs and crunk out. And where past cultures chewed on roots and pellets to contact the spirit world or "find the answers," the seeker of Now can pack a water bong or procure professional psychiatric help when looking for guidance.
- Movies are to me what music was to TCM2's Choptop: It's the juice inside my drink cup, the fuel that floats my boat, the source of my passion and mania. And I'm not the only one. For people like me, there is no Top Twenty List of the Year or a solid well-defined roster of The Best of the Decade. For people like me there are simply too many titles to choose from.
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