Ellise Shafer administratorMikey Alfred is no stranger to rejection.When pitching the script for his feature directorial debut, “North Hollywood,” to distributors, the 26-year-old L.A.
native was met with the same response from all of them: “No.”“I didn’t even get like, ‘Yeah, we’ll hit you back,'” Alfred tells Variety. “It was just like, ‘no,’ everywhere.”It’s not like Alfred is a complete outsider to Hollywood — he was a producer on Jonah Hill’s critically-acclaimed film “Mid90s,” appeared as himself in the HBO series “Ballers” and directed a documentary short about rapper Tyler, the Creator.
But Alfred was told that the semi-autobiographical “North Hollywood” — about a teenage boy’s choice between following his dream of becoming a pro.
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