Christopher Golon Finds Success After NYFA Film School

December 11th, 2008 Posted in Film School, Student & Alumni Activity

Dreams die hard, especially in the arts. Hole up in a cramped apartment with a pen and a pad and maybe you’ll emerge with the next Infinite Jest. Shoot your cinematic vision with a hand-held camera, and maybe you’ll end up with another Mean Streets. Or maybe not.

When it comes to the latter, there’s no better place to be than Los Angeles, where a classified ad on Craigslist will bring dozens of would-be stars running to your auditions, even if you’re not paying a dime. That’s what New Britain native Christopher Golon, 35, did this summer to make his coming-of-age drama set in Connecticut, Knock ‘Em Dead, Kid, on a budget of about $4,000. Back in Connecticut now to put the final touches on his film, Golon is returning to Los Angeles in February to try to sell it.

“I’m going back to L.A. mainly on a wing and a prayer, and that is to try to get this out there,” Golon said last week in a Starbucks near West Farms Mall. “I don’t want to be famous, I just want to make films for a living that somebody might say, ‘Yeah, that was good.’ That’s it.”

Golon completed his script while still at Central Connecticut State University in 1995. Yearning to go to film school, he never graduated from Central, and ended up working in the insurance business.

Last year, Golon enrolled in the New York Film Academy, taking the two-month course offered in Los Angeles, where he stayed in an apartment across the street from Universal Studios. Golon made five shorts for the class, the last one being his thesis. Watch the trailer for Knock ‘Em Dead, Kid.

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