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Recently, a guy started following me on Tumblr. This guy, Paul Gulyas, co-wrote and produced a pilot called Graduates. Today, he posted it online for free.  

Over the holidays he had a screening in New York, unfortunately I wasn’t able to make it, but from what I had seen from it (just a trailer) had me in stitches. You know all those student films made in college that are supposed to be about college, but are really contrived and generally shitty? This isn’t one of them. It’s totally for that It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia crowd, but what makes it different than college movies about college is that it actually connected with me. What should connect for the audience in a movie (or pilot, in this case) about college is that they should be able to connect to the characters in a way that reminds them of themselves and their friends from college. And that’s exactly what this does: I know that kind of (frat) guy, those four friends remind me of my group of guys that I still hang out with and call my best friends.  So, watch the pilot at the Graduates site and send your support Paul’s way there and the rest of the talented people who put in their time and their money to produce such a viewing pleasure.  I’m a big supporter of indy film (coming from my days as an intern at the Lake Placid Film Forum) and so I feel like I must support efforts like this that are truly excellent.