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Meet Rocky Salemmo. He’s a ramblin’ gamblin’ man. For the majority of his adult life Rocky has hustled bowling for a living.

Here is his story. A short documentary about booze, broads and bowling.

I hope you enjoy it.

veryapeproductions.com

**Hey kids, now you can follow my adventures on facebook!! tinyurl.com/2f9zqmg

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  • Amenon plus 1 year ago
    Great work - congrats to all the team.
    Great character too.
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  • Adam Cohen 1 year ago
    Hahah what a character. Nicely done! What was this shot on?
  • hillary spera 1 year ago
    Hey, we shot on the Sony EX3 with Zeiss lenses and Letus adapter.
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  • blackwatch plus 1 year ago
    'Archive' is still one of my all time favorites
    Y'all have a serious knack for telling a story with fine camera work
    Respect
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  • GOMAR2.COM 1 year ago
    enjoyed to the fullest.
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  • Dawid Myśliwiec 1 year ago
    I just loved the way you shot it. You got the gift of choosing great characters for your docs. Excellent job, I will stay tuned.
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  • Charles MacDowell 1 year ago
    Sweet. LOved this story. And it's edited beautifully.
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  • Joriah Goad plus 1 year ago
    Sean- it's about time you shot a feature- you kick ass man!!!
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  • Austin Vavrovics 1 year ago
    Awesome job man, love your stuff
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  • Larry Ransom 1 year ago
    These are the best videos on Vimeo.
  • hillary spera 1 year ago
    You are 100% correct.
  • Daniel Beirne 1 year ago
    Thirded!!
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  • Keen Johns 1 year ago
    What an interesting and active talent, a camera operator's nightmare though in the interview situation. Having said that though jumping around and out of frame does work here with this character.

    Cuts are spot-on for me in both timing and content.

    Nice one Sean.
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  • Ryan Scafuro 1 year ago
    Beautiful photography, excellent storytelling. Great work.
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  • I hope Rocky didn't make off with a camera.
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  • David Counsell plus 1 year ago
    Terrific, Sean. You're a supreme storyteller - The Bowler is an awesome character! Wonderfully shot and totally entertaining. Thanks for sharing!
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  • Max Nucci 1 year ago
    Awesome story and work!
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  • M.S. Birt 1 year ago
    Fantastic!
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  • Erik Spink 1 year ago
    Another awesomely human story. I love the style, LOVE the editing, and cool music too.
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  • Milk Products pro 1 year ago
    watched it. loved it. recommend it.
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  • Brian Rock 1 year ago
    Rock & Roll Bowler, baby
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  • tdominey 1 year ago
    Great work guys. Loved it.
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  • Can we have more, and more, and more?!?
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  • What a magnificent character-driven doc. Wonderful pacing in my opinion, great quality images, priceless story, accent, and body language. Well done.
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  • Motivated Mice plus 1 year ago
    Fantastic- Some great story telling going on here!
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  • I highly enjoyed it.
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  • amazing.
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  • TheMuc 1 year ago
    so entertaining. that guy is definitely a one of a kind.
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  • arnaud cailloux 1 year ago
    Amazing character, so good.
    Still a big fan of your work.
    Love it.
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  • josh@firestorm 1 year ago
    another ripper mini doc!! love it!!
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  • Bill Newsinger plus 1 year ago
    Totally compelling. Love this.
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  • Generation Digital 1 year ago
    Fantasic! Awesome work!
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  • Patrick Johnson plus 1 year ago
    This is such strong work. Great character and you fully compliment him with strong filmmaking. I look forward to checking out your other work!
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  • Was@Bi 1 year ago
    I enjoyed this :) My father works on a bowlinghall and I see a lot of, one of a kind characters over there. The best films on vimeo is the short storys.
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  • Looks like the character Gsus from Le Big Lebowski. :D
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  • Eugene Pagani 1 year ago
    Staten Island MOTHA FUCKA FUCK YEA!!!!!!! DUDE THIS IS AMAZING!
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  • Blake Whitman staff 1 year ago
    So did this guys actually play at The Gutter, or did you guys just use it as the backdrop?

    Great character. Well done.
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  • James Karinejad plus 1 year ago
    Enjoyed every moment, well directed, well shot, well edited! brilliant!

    Love the end credits music ;-)
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  • john wakelin 1 year ago
    This is outstanding; absolutely excellent by any measure. Well done.
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  • Jens Bjørn 1 year ago
    Strange accent.
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  • Rod Blackhurst plus 1 year ago
    So good.
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  • Rod Blackhurst plus 1 year ago
    Got me to thinking that if you like Sean's films, you might like my short doc: vimeo.com/10218543
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  • Peter Franklin 1 year ago
    there were some really brilliant moments in this. loved it
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  • @heyart 1 year ago
    This is GREAT.
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  • Jordan Seneca 1 year ago
    Amazing, I loved every single moment of it! I want to meet that guy! :D
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  • The Baron 1 year ago
    Jesus from The Big Lebowski or Rocky?
    Who copied who? :)

    youtube.com/watch?v=IONyLZn0pLI
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  • Sam Roden 1 year ago
    Really well done.
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  • Nat Bouman 1 year ago
    Wonderful. Is this going out to festivals?
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  • Nita Blum 1 year ago
    facebook.com/pages/Sean-Dunne/127291843962212

    To follow the director Sean Dunne on Facebook
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  • Marty Nowak 1 year ago
    If Scorsese did Bowling, it would this! Amazing job.
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  • Brian Braun 1 year ago
    This is awesome bro. Really amazing. What song is playing during the credits?
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  • Chris Bevacqua 1 year ago
    wow....

    what a dream character to meet and put in front of a camera....incredible work, one of those "i wish i had done this" moments. im jealous! haha. amazing job guys...
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  • i enjoyed that!
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  • Ben Shmulevitch 1 year ago
    "I lived it, I loved it... But I don't wanna recommend it!" Such a great line!

    Loving these docs guys, the direction, the filming, the editing. It'd be nice to see you doing some longer episodes with more depth, but still keep the very observatory style.
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  • I loved it! Although it was only him (and a few others) talking, the way you filmed it, with the two angles, his character and stories keeps you entertained throughout the film..

    Also, I noticed you had a lot of cut away shots at the beginning and hardly any through a large chunk of the film.. I thought this was done well. The cut away shots kept me interested enough to keep watching. Then, I fell in love with his character, your filming technique (and the carl zeis lenses!) and poof! 15 minutes over like that!

    Top job mate!
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  • Mark Tomlinson 1 year ago
    What a great little documentary loved the lighting and over style, seemed to fit with the slightly shady but fascinating character of the bowler.

    Thanks for sharing.
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  • Great photography and lighting! I'll be keeping track of you guys, thnx for sharing!
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  • well done man! Another favourite. Right up there with the archive. You rule!!!
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  • OneClickFilms, LLC 1 year ago
    This was fantastic!!! I can not rave about this enough. The direction, the composition of the shots, the music was PERFECT! From start to finish, wow! Very professionally done. Also I can not thank you enough for allowing us to download this. Thank you! I can't stand when people don't let you download their work. Like you can't use a downloader to get it, come on. It's an insult. Personally when someone wants to keep your work and show it off, that's a huge compliment.

    Wonderful documentary. What a character is an understatement. He is so great! I love what he talks about with regards to bowling professionally and for hustling.

    What a great perspective too with regards to using bowling to hustle for money. When I think of hustling for money I think cards, billiards, something like that. So it was fascinating to see a different perspective with the use of an all time American classic like bowling to hustle for money, wild concept! It's probably very common, but just not something I'm used to seeing. I take my kids bowling and I don't see this world. I know it's there, but my perspective is directed elsewhere.

    Wonderful work! I just can't rave about it enough. The sound, lighting, perspective of shots, editing, and especially the music. The entire piece was so well thought out, excellent job!
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  • Hans Chueh 1 year ago
    amazing!!
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  • Håvard Ferstad plus 1 year ago
    Sean was kind enough to create an audio commentary explaining how he works with his subject in this documentary. storytell.in/hdvidz/entry/the_bowler_sean_dunne
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  • Breezy Granzow 1 year ago
    I really enjoyed it! and it was quite visually delicious.

    he's such an interesting subject. he has so much physical movement so it makes it interesting on camera. his body language certainly shows his excitement and enthusiasm. you have a talent for telling people's stories.
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  • Kathy Gatto 1 year ago
    One of my most favorite projects. I love Rocky and all of his infinite enthusiasm.
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  • Josef Hrehorow 1 year ago
    I Enjoyed it!..now more please!
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  • Z MAN 1 year ago
    Brilliant!
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  • Chris St.Croix plus 1 year ago
    Perfection. Inspiring work. Please tell me that won every doc award on the planet because if not there is no justice.
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  • Vuk Micic 1 year ago
    I really like this one. Good work! ;-)
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  • John Marton 1 year ago
    wow!!
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  • Nick Farago plus 1 year ago
    Nice to see something on vimeo that tells a story for once.
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  • Paulo Arellano 1 year ago
    what a character , i loved it!
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  • Mike Neale 1 year ago
    Hi sean, just watched you on filmfellas and decided to check out your work. I clicked on the bowler and i liked the intro music so i shazamed it. I turns out that the band that made the song live in my small village in Wales in the UK. It is a small world. Great film. Awesome work. Take care.
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  • Josh Izenberg plus 1 year ago
    Sean, really been digging your work. Great stuff, man.
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  • Jared Pfeifer 1 year ago
    Nice work man - dug this.
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  • AS WORLDS DIVIDE plus 1 year ago
    Such a rad character, and great production Sean.
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  • Steve Crow 1 year ago
    Wow, this was a complete feature, it had all the right elements. Actor Steve Buscemi should see this video since this guy would make a great character for Steve to play.

    It even had elements of Brando's "On The Waterfront" ; "I could have been somebody instead of a bum which is what I am."

    Brilliant work once again Sean!
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  • Joe Moya plus 1 year ago
    fine editing and storytelling
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  • Benoit Laplante 1 year ago
    Solid Doc! good Job
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  • Dima Tatarinov plus 1 year ago
    Nice work Sean! I really liked this one:)
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  • Benjamin Hargrave 1 year ago
    That was beautiful.
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  • Excellent work. Great storytelling.
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  • James Adams 1 year ago
    So good. Thanks!
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  • Ian Berenger 1 year ago
    loved it
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  • Michael Arruda 1 year ago
    Thank you,love your work, love this character and his life-story
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  • Alexander Koning plus 1 year ago
    great, just briljant, well made, good cast.... cool
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  • Andrew Mohrer plus 1 year ago
    what a character man!! great stuff
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  • Morten Engelien plus 1 year ago
    Best i've seen in a long time! Really awesome!
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  • Kid Mountain 11 months ago
    Kingpin... in real life.
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  • Bernardo A.P. 11 months ago
    Really enjoyed Rocky Salemmo.
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  • Bob Cross 9 months ago
    Great production - really enjoyed the film.
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  • Brian and Femke Muntz 9 months ago
    Amazing!! I've already watched it 3 times hahaha. I just some how imagine him hooking up with Roy Munsons landlady hahaha
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  • Nick Evans 9 months ago
    Great work! Great story!
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  • Kate Imbach 7 months ago
    This is fantastic, reviewed it over on my documentary blog: fellwitness.com/shorts-the-bowler
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  • Sam Diss 7 months ago
    Absolutely loved it.
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  • Duncan Trevithick plus 7 months ago
    He reminds me of Christian Bale's character from the fighter.
  • Dave Waldron 4 months ago
    or Donnie from Lebowski
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  • M. 6 months ago
    Amazing video! Loved every minute of it!
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  • Logan Troxell 4 months ago
    This is incredible! and WHAT a character. Great work.
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  • Calvin Edwards 4 months ago
    Dude that was awesome!... that guy is an absolute character and you captured it brilliantly
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  • Just amazing....
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  • Bryce Harrison 4 months ago
    Awesome.
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