Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Brooklyn duo collaborate on new independent film
'Hannah Ha Ha' focuses on decline of small-town way of life.
A new film about a small-town, not-very-ambitious young woman whose lifestyle is challenged when her corporate-type brother comes to town will premiere later this month at the Slamdance Film Festival, a venue for independent films that takes place in Park City, Utah, at the same time as Sundance.
The film, “Hannah Ha Ha,” is produced by Roger Mancusi, a Brooklyn Heights resident, and co-produced by Emily Freire, from East New York. They met through a mentorship through the Brooklyn-based filmmaking program Reel Works, which matches teens with professional filmmaker-mentors.
Mancusi invited Freire to be involved in the project, then increased her role from production assistant to co-producer. Freire is a native Brooklynite; Mancusi’s family originally came from Brooklyn, then moved to Long Island, and he later moved back to Brooklyn, he told the Eagle.