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Final Vinyl is a fictional web series about a record store in NYC that's on the verge of closing (or is it?) due to rent going up and sales going down.
A total of 10 episodes were filmed at a record store in Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY.
Each episode features interactions between the "Sunday Guy" Billy and the store's customers as well as characters from the surrounding neighborhood.
Final Vinyl is about a record store, yes, but it's also about how music connects people, the impact of "big box" retailers on "mom and pop" small businesses, the effect of a disruptive economy on folks struggling to make ends meet and much more.
Each episode features interactions between the "Sunday Guy" Billy and the store's customers as well as characters from the surrounding neighborhood.
Final Vinyl is about a record store, yes, but it's also about how music connects people, the impact of "big box" retailers on "mom and pop" small businesses, the effect of a disruptive economy on folks struggling to make ends meet and much more.
Ready2Rock Productions
Derek Shane Garcia, Director and Executive Producer
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Derek Shane Garcia is a filmmaker from Brooklyn, NY. He graduated from SUNY-Purchase with a BFA in Film Production. Over the years, Derek’s work has been an official selection for many prestigious film festivals including Tribeca, Brooklyn International, NYC Downtown Shorts, NFFTY, Chicago, HBO International, Latino NY Film Festival, and the Williamsburg International Film Festival in Brooklyn. Derek is particularly well rounded in the documentary genre having made captivating films for CBS Sunday Morning News and Channel 13-PBS in NYC for Ken Burns projects that have aired nationally. He started [DSG] Productions in 2012 and has been hired as a director on many music videos, shorts and web series episodes ever since. Derek is a lifelong New Yorker. His film work reflects the unique combination of grit and beauty that is present on every city street throughout the five boroughs.
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James Kautz, Lead Actor and Executive Producer
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James Kautz is the creator and Artistic Director of the award-winning Amoralists Theatre Company in NYC. Under Kautz's leadership, the company has produced 16 World and New York premieres by some of America's most visceral and celebrated playwrights including Adam Rapp, Ken Urban, Emily Schwend and Lyle Kessler. Through the Amoralists, he has championed the development of more than 100 new plays from emerging writers. Most recently he directed the 2015 World Premiere of Lisa Lewis' Schooled to great acclaim at the Soho Playhouse. Called "a fiercely talented performer" by Time Out New York and “fearless” by The New York Times, his acting credits include, on TV: CBS's Bull and HBO's Vinyl; on stage: Emily Schwend's The Other Thing (Second Stage, Dir. Lucie Tiberghien) and Utility (Rattlestick, Dir. Jay Stull), Adam Rapp's The Hallway Trilogy (Rattlestick, Dir. Adam Rapp/Trip Cullman) and Ghosts In the Cottonwoods (Theatre 80 Saint Marks, Dir. Adam Rapp), Derek Ahonen's The Bad and the Better (Playwrights Horizons, Dir. Daniel Aukin), The Pied Pipers of The Lower East Side (PS 122, Dir. Derek Ahonen) and Lyle Kessler's Collision (Rattlestick, Dir. David Fofi). He has appeared in multiple commercials and voice overs.
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Bill McCue, Screenwriter and Executive Producer
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Bill McCue is a public relations executive by day, and an aspiring playwright, actor, musician, standup comic, poet and short story writer in his spare time. Bill has acted in modern day productions and readings of classic works produced by the Brooklyn Stage Company and The Mortals Theater including Oedipus Rex, Hamlet, The Iceman Cometh and Salome (On the Rocks). From 2004 to 2011, he was the lead singer, manager and promoter in three psychedelic rock cover bands: Dock Ellis, The Marvin Barnes Time Machine and Fritz Kekich. Bill is a lifelong New Yorker and has lived in Park Slope for 14 years. He digs for vinyl at record shops throughout NYC including Generations, Mercer Street Book Store and A-1 Records in Manhattan, and Black Gold Records, Music Matters, and Bene Coopersmith’s record shop in Brooklyn.
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