starring
Brandy Ingram
Alberto Frezza
Jenni
Melear
Maury Zeller
associate producer
Alessia Rosso
producers
Kayla Tabish
Sofia Braccio
Dan Peterson
writer director camera
Dan Peterson
About the Filmmakers
Kayla Tabish - Producer
Kayla has always been committed to breathing life
into projects
that illuminate aspects of life and characters with whom
audiences might
not be familiar and would otherwise ignore.
To that end, she recently helped
produce the critically acclaimed
"Loren Cass",
an independent feature that had
its U.S. Premiere at the
CineVegas Film Festival,
and international premiere at the
Locarno
Switzerland Film Festival.
"Loren Cass" went on to screen in 20+ festival cities around the world,
received
an IFP Gotham Award nomination and
opened theatrically in New York City and Los Angeles
to
incredible reviews
from the New York Times, Variety, and the Village Voice
among
many others.
However, it was at CineVegas
where Kayla met filmmaker Dan Peterson
whose "Have Love,
Will Travel" was also premiering.
Appreciating and in sync with each others sense and style of filmmaking,
they eventually teamed up for a period of time on various projects.
including
"Angel Falls in Love"
and has recently formed her own production company
Dan Peterson - Writer Director Producer
An Air Force veteran, Peterson
utilized the G.I. bill to attend
Columbia College film school.
Peterson's independent film, "Backroad Motel",
an
anthology featuring fictional characters
inhabiting a dingy motel room somewhere along Route
66,
caught the attention of Jonathan Taplin, producer of,
among other films,
Martin Scorsese's "Mean Streets".
So impressed by Peterson's film, Taplin transformed
"Backroad Motel"
into one of the first internet series or "webisodes"
In
between writing and filmmaking gigs
Peterson spent random periods of time as writer for various TV shows.
a
part time script typist for Quentin Tarantino,
as well as driver/bodyguard for "Private
Dancers".
It was experience as a driver that inspired him to write, produce and direct,
"Have
Love, Will Travel"
a starkly honest and unflinching journey into
a
dark underground world of the Los Angeles moble sex trade.
Subsequently
it was "Have Love, Will Travel" that
Grabbed the attention of Sundance Film Festival Programmers,
Trevor Groth & Mike Plant
who invited it to world premiere at their own CineVegas Film Festival.
