Grande Macchiato
Grande Macchiato is about an old cop, who reflects over his life while having his usual coffee and pie. Never becoming the detective he hoped to be, an opportunity arrives that causes him to break his routine.
Andrew Madonio has been making films since he was in high school, and has been making professional short films since college. Andrew graduated with a bachelors degree in Advertising, and a minor in Chinese. His influences in cinema hail from, not only American cinema, but South Korean and Asian cinema as well. Though him and his crew have made a number of short films, Grande Macchiato is their first SAG short film.
Grande Macchiato is a short film I wrote during a weekend, in a fever dream-like state, while listening to Vangelis’s Blade Runner soundtrack and watching Carlito’s Way on heavy rotation. It’s a culmination of everything I love about film noir and crime thrillers. It’s a walkway into the mind of this burnt out cop who never became the cop he imagined he’d be. The film is ultimately about a person becoming a spectator in their own life. It’s one man’s journey toward his independence: from fear, from judgement, and from his own personal moral compass.