Before the Door Productions, Zachary Quinto‘s production shingle, premiered it’s first movie at Sundance this year. Margin Call, starring Kevin Spacey and Paul Bettany (our review here), was eventually picked up by Roadside Attractions for a fall release and nominated for a Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, it proved the fledgling company was worth keeping an eye on.
Now, Deadline reports Before the Door is teaming with commercial and trailer company Anonymous Content to finance a second film. The as of now untitled film will be a found-footage style romantic comedy featuring players from the Periods Films web shorts. Helmed by first-time director Victor Quinaz and written by Quinaz, Anna Martemucci and Philip Quinaz, it will combine scripted and improv comedy.
Other than those few details, the premise of the untitled film has been kept tightly under wraps. Shooting begins today in New York. Before the Door has previously worked with the Periods Films crew under Quinaz’s direction on the Before After shorts for Funny or Die. Check out the first episode below.
Like Derrick Comedy‘s Mystery Team, this looks to be shaping into a feature film made by people who make Internet shorts. Whether the Periods Films crew will benefit from the format shift remains to be seen. It’s certainly promising that those small companies are starting to get chances like this.
Margin Call is rumored for an October release and expect their next film to be released in 2012.
What do you think about web shorts creators getting into the feature format?