Directing
Danny Plotnick
Acting credits
4.7A narcissistic tennis pro, a talentless socialite and an animal rights activist discover the troubles of “fame”.
Fame Whore
1997
Crackling with the energy of a 1980s punk rock, seat-of-the-pants, totally wired DIY production, Elevator to Stardom is a reminder of how films got made back in the day. Come up with an idea, use the small footprint and immediacy of Super 8, and knock out a crowd-pleaser in a month’s time. Grain-be-damned, thread up the projector, and let’s get viewing.
Elevator to Stardom
2023
6.4A pretentious underground filmmaker struggles with his masterpiece while a scuzzy punkoid chick tries to keep her band from fading into obscurity.
Scumrock
2002
Behind the camera
NRThe epic tale of a longhaired loser getting mugged by a bunch of rug rats in a laundromat at 22nd and Guerrero.
Pipsqueak Pfollies
1994
8.7Punk rock auteur, Danny Plotnick shot his YouTube classic "Skate Witches" in one afternoon in 1986 on Super 8 film at a cost of $60. In it, a group of teenage female skatepunks (and their pet rats) terrorize boy skaters.
Skate Witches
1986
8.7Punk rock auteur, Danny Plotnick shot his YouTube classic "Skate Witches" in one afternoon in 1986 on Super 8 film at a cost of $60. In it, a group of teenage female skatepunks (and their pet rats) terrorize boy skaters.
Skate Witches
1986
NRShort film. Plot to be added.
Sugarbutts
1987
NRA sock monkey enjoysg a night on the town.
I, Socky
1999
NREver wonder what it's like to go on tour with your film, band, poetry or art? Well it's not all glad-handing, schmoozing, free drink tickets and adoring audiences. Along the way there are some dark, dank and humiliating moments. The Tour Tips series will address some of these pitfalls to better prepare the travelling artiste for his or her journey down the wrong side of the road.
Tour Tips
2001
8.0Extreme manipulation of filmic time and space combined with an impressionistic lighting scheme help create an urban spaces nightmare. A woman living by herself is having a hard time, downstairs the neighbours are fighting, next door they're having extremely loud sex, an old lady's stealing her clothes in the laundry room, and worst of all, she's no better than the rest.
Pillow Talk
1991
7.0A character referred to as "The Professor" introduces and comments on a filmed version of a supposed script from a 1960's home movie-making magazine. Even though the target audience would presumably be making the film at home and casting their friends and family, the script is an extremely suggestive tale of a housewife being seduced by a traveling salesman.
Swingers' Serenade
1999
Crackling with the energy of a 1980s punk rock, seat-of-the-pants, totally wired DIY production, Elevator to Stardom is a reminder of how films got made back in the day. Come up with an idea, use the small footprint and immediacy of Super 8, and knock out a crowd-pleaser in a month’s time. Grain-be-damned, thread up the projector, and let’s get viewing.
Elevator to Stardom
2023
Crackling with the energy of a 1980s punk rock, seat-of-the-pants, totally wired DIY production, Elevator to Stardom is a reminder of how films got made back in the day. Come up with an idea, use the small footprint and immediacy of Super 8, and knock out a crowd-pleaser in a month’s time. Grain-be-damned, thread up the projector, and let’s get viewing.
Elevator to Stardom
2023
7.0Two lunkheads get dumped by their friends in the desert.
Dumbass From Dundas
1988
7.0An ode to the counterculture of the 80s and 90s, when finding quality culture was a real treasure hunt.
Out of Print
2008
7.0An ode to the counterculture of the 80s and 90s, when finding quality culture was a real treasure hunt.
Out of Print
2008
NRA loving tribute to comic genius Flip Wilson.
Flip About Flip
1990
5.0The pointless shenanigans of San Francisco rock 'n' roll ne'er-do-wells The Icky Boyfriends and their futile quest for rock stardom.
I'm Not Fascinating
1996
5.0The pointless shenanigans of San Francisco rock 'n' roll ne'er-do-wells The Icky Boyfriends and their futile quest for rock stardom.
I'm Not Fascinating
1996
5.0The pointless shenanigans of San Francisco rock 'n' roll ne'er-do-wells The Icky Boyfriends and their futile quest for rock stardom.
I'm Not Fascinating
1996
7.0A tale of backwoods blacktop mayhem--Two dim-witted, lead-footed guidos from Bayonne, New Jersey bust through stoplight after stoplight in their turbo-charged, fuel-injected Pontiac Grand Prix until their mean machine nearly eighty-sixes another hunk of American steel. And that's just the start of it...A confrontation, an assault, fists-a-flying, and traffic violations.
Death Sled II: Steel Belted Romeos
1990