Make Me Famous

“A madcap romp through the 1980's NYC art scene amid the colorful career of painter, Edward Brezinski, hell-bent on making it.”

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2023

1h 32m

Documentary

An investigation of Edward Brezinski, an ambitious, charismatic Lower East Side painter hell-bent on sucess, who thwarted his own career with antics that roiled NYC’s art elite. Brezinski’s quest for fame gives an intimate portrait of the art world’s attitude towards success and failure, fame and fortune, notoriety and erasure.

Key Crew

Director

Brian Vincent

Producers

Heather Spore

Brian Vincent

Writers

Brian Vincent

Heather Spore

Cinematography

Eugene McVeigh

Music

Jeremiah Bornfield

Cast (12)

Kenny Scharf

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