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The other Jonathan Geffner

There is another Jonathan Geffner who lives in the same county as I do. We have communicated via Facebook occasionally over several years but have never met. He is one of the first contributors to my fund raising campaign on Kickstarter.com for my "dummy noir" movie. I am grateful for his support, but would expect nothing less from a man with such a cool name. 

By the way, if you haven't pledged a donation yet to our project, why the heck not? The deadline is June 30th, 2013, so get off your tokhes and do it already...

 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/609133593/while-the-village-sleeps

Anyway, I'm thinking of writing a short film entitled Jonathan Geffner, about two Jonathan Geffners who simultaneously get amnesia, then simultaneously awake to believe that they each are the other one. I'll hire the other Jonathan Geffner to play one of the Jonathan Geffners and I'll play the other. 

 Since we are both musicians we can do the music together. I can't wait to see the credit roll...

Jonathan Geffner a film by Jonathan Geffner

Characters Jonathan Geffner played by Jonathan Geffner and Jonathan Geffner played by Jonathan Geffner

music by Jonathan Geffner and Jonathan Geffner

Any resemblance of the two Jonathan Geffners in this film to any other Jonathan Geffners living or dead is purely coincidental.


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