Filmmaking has never felt like work.  My films have always been a way for me to express myself, and I only hope that someone else cares to watch it.  That has never been more true than with my new film, "The Walk."  

 

Having been inspired by Rabbi David Wolpe's moving anecdote, based on a true story, I decided that very day, the moment I read it, that this film had to be made.  I didn't know how, as it goes with most films, but I knew I had to write it and I wrote the first draft that day.  I took that anecdote and made it my own by making the relationship between the child and the older gentleman a direct comparison to the amazing relationship that I had with my grandfather.  

 

My grandfather was a very well-known Rabbi, but to me he was just my Papa.  One morning during the making of this film, I remember waking up in tears, overcome with emotion.  I had realized that the day before, I had found myself in my grandfather's shoes, standing on the Temple pulpit.  Instead of talking to a congregation at the front of the temple, I was directing the cast and crew for the scene that day.  My cousin had written to me that she felt that my grandfather would have been very proud of his grandson.  I know that in my lifetime I will not be able be even a fraction of how brave and inspirational as he was, but I know that he is proud of me and I, in turn, am proud to be his grandson.  I am thrilled to share this film with others, with the hopes that they can take something meaningful away from the story as I surely did.