"Much-heralded Star Deli slow-cooks it's own
tender temptations"
— Danny Raskin ,2012
Big Sean and eventually brought Jim
Burnstein in to do a cameo role.
"I kept calling Jim to work with us,
and he finally said he would let us
handle his most beloved script, Love
and Honor, remotely based on the expe-
rience of a friend" Rubin explains.
"He said we would have to work with
a producer, Chip Diggins, who already
was involved with the project. A year
and a half later, we put the film together.
We had casting directors in Los Angeles
and Michigan. In the process, I learned
so much from Chip"
Diggins, managing partner of Route
One Films, has worked in Hollywood
for 20 years. He has held executive posi-
tions at Disney and Paramount Pictures.
"I think I've done everything I could
to jumpstart my career, from intern-
ing with Edward Zwick and Marshall
Herskovitz in Los Angeles to working on
films to starting my own company" says
Rubin, whose production credits include
Mooz-lum, starring Danny Glover.
"I am constantly traveling between
Michigan and California. Our agent, in
California, had reached out to us after
seeing our work with Liam, his client"
Rubin has had lots of encouragement
from his mom, Edythe Rubin, a social
worker for Head Start in Detroit, and
his fiancee, Michelle Unger, soon to
receive her law degree from Wayne State
University.
The wedding will take place in
September at Temple Beth El, where
Rabbi Elliot Pachter of B'nai Moshe will
co-officiate with Rabbi Daniel Syme.
"Right now, I am immersed in the
release of the film Love and Honor, but
we are working very hard at develop-
ing new projects" says Rubin, whose
brother, Evan, is a programmer in Japan
and whose sister, Anna, is a freshman at
Michigan State University.
"I'm young and hungry with a foot
in the door of filmmaking. I want to
continue to learn as we work on new
projects. I enjoy films so much that
watching new productions often fills my
time away from Deep Blue Pictures"
Rubin also enjoys hanging out with
friends, reading and being in the audi-
ence of plays and concerts.
"Love and Honor is a testament that
hard work can pay off," he says. "I speak
to classes at U-M and tell them never to
be afraid of rejection. They just have to
keep going.
"I think of film as a way to reach out
to millions of individuals at once, get-
ting a message across and entertaining
them. Movies are such a part of our cul-
ture, and culture affects the subjects of
movies. It's all cyclical."
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March 22, at the Penn Theatre, 760 Penniman Ave., Plymouth, where there
will be an introduction and talkback. $25 goes entirely to Friends of the
Penn to run the historic venue. Call Ellen Elliot at (734) 453-0870.
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