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Tommy Avallone is an American film director and producer. He is best known for his work on the documentaries I Am Santa Claus, The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned from a Mythical Man and Waldo on Weed.
Avallone was born and raised in Haddon Heights, New Jersey and graduated from Haddon Heights High School in 2001. At the age of 20 years he was running for mayor of his hometown.
Avallone’s debut feature documentary, I Am Santa Claus, premiered at the Hollywood Film Festival, in 2014. In 2018, he directed the feature documentary, The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned from a Mythical Man. It had its international premiere at Hot Docs and was nominated at American Film Festival. In 2019, he directed the feature documentary, Waldo on Weed, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, and was nominated at the Philadelphia Film Festival.
In 2021, he directed and co-produced a two-part docuseries on Barney the Dinosaur entitled I Love You, You Hate Me with Scout Productions.
In 2024 he directed the documentary The House From…
Home Sweet Home… but what is home? Most would describe it as a place to keep your belongings or where you would build a family and make memories. But what if the memories of your house were not exclusively yours? What if you lived in a famous house? THE HOUSE FROM… is a documentary that explores the unique experience of living in a famous house from a TV show or movie. For most people, home is where the heart is. But for others, home is where there are a whole lot of people standing outside, taking pictures and reenacting their favorite scenes while you sip your morning coffee.
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Brad Teplitsky is an attorney from Toronto, Canada and a long time collector of props and costumes. Brad has worked closely for many years with a leading entertainment memorabilia auction house to bring props and costumes to collectors. After several years of doing so, he started Studio Auctions with a view to providing a superior auction experience
From Studio Auctions
“Studio Auctions is an online auction house focusing on studio memorabilia and providing a superior auction experience. We purchase and take items on consignment. Open by appointment only. We focus on how the auction business can be innovated to better inform the buyer of the value of each piece, reach international audiences through traditional and new modern methods of promotion, and create a new generation of collectors.”