What I hope to do and accomplish by living in Hollywood

This is a treatment,

a TV pitch I wrote in summer of 2009 to give to Executives and try and sell my idea for a TV show.... So far it didnt and that's what I'm working on while in Hollywood.

I have a ton of footage but none of it's thus far edited...

Here's my pitch for

LOVE 'N' MEMORIES - Medical Mission Adventures...

hope you dig it...:

Hi,

Hey, I'm Mike Antonucci, I’m in the process of learning how to make a Medical Mission show; more specific, an Adventure show host position, a job that I dream about, where I could fulfill my Passion for adventure and newness for meeting people while learning as I go. That’s something I've always longed for since my youth.

I moved out to Hollywood in October 2008, but went to the PHILIPPINES for a 2-month Mini Medical School, where I worked with different Doctor’s in indigenous tribes learning how to further assess and treat patients. More so then I have before from training as an army medic and EMT. I got to deliver babies, pull teeth, prescribe herbal & synthetic drugs, and be part of something more than myself, I was living out desires to travel, helping people, and learning. Some of the many things I often dream about and want for my life. I got back to the states in December and spent a month in New Jersey with family. I came out to LA for good in February and have been here since taking acting and film classes, trying to learn how life out here works. I went to Haiti for two weeks in February 2010 to help with medical relief and shot 11 hours of footage I'm currently in the process of editing.

So~ I have an idea for a show, a reality show where I would backpack the world, hitch-hike, adventure, camp, meet tons of different people, and do medical missions as I go. Which would entail bringing in different volunteer Doctors from each new place and doing an educational medical outreach. Each episode would have new adventures that would get the audience involved and excited in what we're doing and where we're going, seeing where God leads & happens to bring me. It wouldn't be heavily scripted because it would be actual adventure and God led travel.

In places where there seems a need for medical treatment, over the course of a few days or a week, with the proper funding, we could set up a medical outreach. Either by bringing in different Doctors or medical personnel I know, or talking to and using the ones in the area (which would be more community building, and when proven to be credible, could team up with Doctors without borders around the world). There would be free medical care and out of hospital non-surgical treatment to those persons in need of it, and perhaps follow up care (possibly funded by the show, or by charities which I hope to start). So they could be tracked in-care and after-care to show their progress, interventions, and results achieved made possible by the show.

~The idea of a show like this would be to engage adventure and education seekers. Every episode would teach the general public something beneficial and truly helpful, even life changing in medical and emergency medical care situations. There would also be lots of web episodes that elaborate more on different medical educational techniques and teachings; different peoples personal stories, and perhaps even a bible reading everyday (I’ve wanted to ground in that for years but never have yet). Even bring the webisodes to the point where EMS services and Medical training Service/Schools would use the site and videos for easily and clearly presented teachings to learn from and use in classrooms, but also easily available for individuals. (If charging for anything, only perhaps a dollar for a subscription and use, so everyone would be able to and willing to use it)

Each episode would teach a 4 or 5 minute “How to” clip at the end credits, running parallel to the scrolling credits. Where either myself, or a guest (DR./Teacher) would teach a technique plain and simple to the viewers that they could easily understand. Example: Perhaps CPR, explain what it is, why its needed and used, and how to do it, give a visual demonstration so people would actually be able to learn the given information and if need be, use it in an emergency. There would be disclaimers all over so the show couldn't get sued. There could be thousands of possibilities for these teaching segments; the point is to have them easily and clearly taught so even the dumbest person could understand.

The possibilities are limitless, there are no boundaries on what could be taught and explored, and with the right film crews and post production, and with passion and zeal on my part, which would come from me being me, adventuring and living unbound, being organic and true, the draw to watch and learn and have fun would never end. And the people would love it.

My goal is not just to have fun and get a show to be famous, but to Live my heart out and share that with others, to Learn, to Teach, to Lead, to reform the education standards throughout the World by giving clear resources easily available to all, in an interesting format that would be easy to understand and learn. I know for visual learners like myself, its sooooooo difficult to get a concept from a book or a lecture, or even a good picture. It takes hands on, intense Questioning, and repeated "why's" and explanations’ to become clear on something and truly understand the concept behind it.

I was thinking of calling this show Love 'n' Memories "Medical Mission Adventures" and incorporating lots of variating depths into it. Having amazing adventure (not sure how'd we capture that, maybe just me and a video camera and some good batteries) helping people who need help, and educating the public and those in other countries that don't have any means of getting that education. Interviewing people about their life stories, finding out who they are, where they're from, what they've done. Getting to know about them, the real person, putting all the stories up on a public forum online where people could go to follow up on who've they've just seen. Branching that out into a public database and establishing media presence, to the extent that I hope it would achieve. Which would help people save and preserve who they are. Over time who their parents, grandparents, and great grandparents were.

I truly have a lot of ideas, many more, 100's more, that would benefit many many people, and give lots of money to people who aren't as fortunate as I was my whole life growing up in the states. This show would show other worlds out there, that I've never seen, that are different from what most people know, even places in our own communities that we never see, go to, or want to. (Homeless/ghetto)

Wow, that’s a lot, I hope you've read this, and I truly hope you see the potential in investing time and heart into a show like I envision. If anything seems unclear please bring that to my attention, this is an actual project an inner goal I'm working on to bring a deeper meaning to my life, and to change the lives of many others through media and by just going, putting myself out there unsure of what will happen and taking risks. Please do follow up.

-Thank you,

~ Mike Antonucci

732-261-2895

www.LovenMemories.com

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-pass this on to whomever you think would be interested...

Mike Antonucci~ finally starting a blog to put my brain and mind and soul out there for you to see~ be` ware```

Hey,

So I'm Mike Antonucci, and this is now my blog. I hopefully will start using it as a journal of sorts to keep you updated on my life, and ideas, and goals, and ways of thinking that just make me - me...

Where to begin?

maybe a life story update on the past few years of life:

(copy and pasted from a letter I wrote to the VA)

dont know if this is best to post at first, but what the heck, why not...

Dear _______________,

In May 2005 I joined the Army Nation Guard, I joined with the intention of becoming an 18Delta Special Forces Medical Sergeant. I began training September of that year, then 91W Medic school in November, Airborne school in May of ‘06, SFAS (Special Forces Assessment & Selection) prep in June, and Selection in July and August. After 11.5 months of training I failed to make selection and continue on in training. Afterwards I went back home to New Jersey to train in the Guard and become and officer.

I started school again and was anticipating beginning OCS in the New Year coming. In late January ’07, the 23^rd to be precise my dad died and set my life and my family into complete despair and turmoil. I still began OCS that February and intended on completing it through and finishing a college degree. In July of that year I had an opportunity to move to Hawaii and pursue doing missions work, which I was hoping to do for a year, traveling to places around the world in need and helping people. I moved there and started the process to transfer units and get into the OCS school out there. Everything was going well the first month there and then I got a call from my sister saying mom was diagnosed with cancer. So that same day I was packed and on a military HOPS flight back to NJ to be with my mom.

I got there and life changed for the absolute worse that it had ever been. Mom was diagnosed with small cell cancer and was expected to die within the year. I was taken aback and didn’t know what to do so I prayed and hoped. I moved back home and started working as a martial arts instructor, began drilling with my old unit again, and was going day to day loving my mom and waiting for God to act and heal. My unit assigned for deployment and was scheduled to leave for training multiple times over the next few months and for good in May of that year. I told my commander that I could not go and would not leave my mom while she was sick. After many disputes and appeals my unit finally suggested that I put in for a hardship discharge so there would be no possibility of leaving my mom when she was sick with cancer. I didn’t want to but wasn’t going to risk leaving mom or getting arrested for abandoning my unit and neglecting my duty when they deployed. So I put in for hardship discharge and was granted that; and was done drilling with my unit, out of the army.

Mom died on January 22^nd of 2008, one year after dad died, 16-hour difference. My family fell apart, I was a mess, life was nothing, empty and we didn’t know what to do. We had the funeral a few days later and it went well, I worked on a picture slide show and video presentation about mom to show my family at the reception. After that I didn’t know what to do, I started my own business and intended to stay in New Jersey, but my family decided to sell the house and by April the house and everything that was there my whole life was gone. I thought moving out to Colorado would be good, it wasn’t. I lived there for the summer then in the beginning of October I decided to move out to Hollywood. I was already scheduled to fly to the Philippines October 28^th out of LAX airport, so I just moved here and stayed with a friend for a few weeks, went to the Philippines for a Mini Medical School working with and learning from Doctors and doing medical outreaches to indigenous tribes people on the island. I learned to deliver babies, do dental work, diagnose and prescribe drugs for patient sickness, and work somewhat with Herbal remedies to cure skin diseases.

I was over there for 2 amazing months and after I got back I spent one month in New Jersey seeing my family then came out to Hollywood and found a place to live. I spent the first few months trying to get my business going, but after a lot of trying and spending money, I didn’t make any. So summer time I renewed my EMT license and got a job working as an emergency medical technician.

I was walking by LA Film school one day and decided to stop in and see what they had to offer. Earlier that summer I thought of an idea that consumed and still consumes my passions, I want to get my own TV show doing Medical Missions, backpacking the world, having adventures, finding people in need, and getting in the resources to help, treat, and educate them. A real way of medically and economically helping people, bringing public awareness to areas much less fortunate then us, and creating an actual way for people to give money or volunteer time to a specific people group with the intent purpose to help and make a difference.

So I went in the school and took a tour and thought that this could be a place I’d be able to learn how to make my show. I spoke with an admissions rep and told her that there would be no way that I could afford this unless I had military benefits that could cover it. She had me talk to the schools VA rep and she had me fill out paperwork online; She informed me that I should be able to receive the Post 9/11 G.I. Bill which meant I would be getting $2,000 a month and full tuition benefits. I couldn’t believe it, that would be almost as much as I made working full time, but I’d be getting to go to school on top of that. I stressed that she had to be sure that she was accurate otherwise I could not go. She said that everything was ok and it would initially take a few months (3 or more) to start getting payments because the VA was so backed up.

I began classes and loved it, the school is great and I’m learning quite a bit, but since no money came in I had to keep on working my EMT job whenever I could which wasn’t that often. Big problem is that I can’t work on days when I have school. So Bills began piling up and rent became a habitually late thing to pay, which my landlord is not happy with. I actually got an eviction notice in October because I was late on Septembers rent and didn’t have enough to pay Octobers. That’s when I found out from another veteran in my class that the VA was giving $3,000 advances because they were so late on payments and all we had to do was go down there and they check your records and pay the advance. I went down the next day and waited for a couple of hours, they called me in, checked my records, and wrote me a check for $3,000. I went to my bank and had them immediately write me a check to cover the 3 months rent, got home and gave it to my landlord so I didn’t get evicted and was a month ahead on rent now. Really saved my butt from becoming homeless.

The next few months of school were good, learned a bunch and had a day or two off a week to work my ambulance job to make rent money. In January we were working on a set learning different crew jobs and doing quite a bit. Then one day I heard about a huge earthquake that happened in Haiti and killed a lot of people, I didn’t understand the magnitude of it until I watched videos on youtube showing the utter destruction. It hit my heart hard, I wanted to go down there and help, I was talking with a cinematography teacher on day after class and told him what I wanted to do for a medical mission tv show and he told me something that really influenced and inspired me. He said “Mike, if I were you and I wanted to do what you hope to do to help people and make a show, I’d stop right now and figure out how I could get down there, go and do your medical stuff and film everything you can.” As soon as he said that I asked myself, why aren’t I there? I have the training and skills and a camcorder, why don’t I go?

So I called a contact I had, a guy who runs a medical group called Medical Mission Adventures (www.MMAdventures.org) and he said they were already looking into heading there in a few weeks. So I decided to take off of school for a month and head over there to do what I could to Love and help hurting and sick people however I could. I raised money through my church and whoever else donated, still that wasn’t enough so I worked as much as I could the week before we left and went over there from Feb 6^th – Feb 21^st, in Haiti I met many amazing people from all over the world that were there to give of themselves and help without receiving anything in return. The Haitian people, for people that lost so much, their loved ones, spouses, children, babies, parents, friends, the Haitians were an amazing people full of praise to God and thanksgiving for all the world that was coming to help. I have never seen such a strong people in my life thus far.

When I got home from Haiti I began to see how costly the trip really was, I’d taken 11 hours of footage and need to do something with it, make a documentary to show what its like there, to show what’s needed and inspire people to help. But I didn’t even have enough money to buy an external hard drive to get the footage on. I was able to pay rent late again but after that got hit with $400 in over draft fees from my bank. I’ve been trying to work to pay off bills and pay rent which I’m currently late on yet, and I am working but not enough to pay everything owed.

I just found out that I’m not getting my Post 9/11 VA Benefits, no $2,000 a month and no full tuition coverage, and got a few letters already from the VA stating I owe them the $3,000 I got as an advance back in October. I’ve spoken with the schools new VA reps and they ‘ve told me that I am not entitled to the Post 9/11 GI Bill instead I’d be getting another one where the VA pays me directly and in turn I have to take that and pay the school tuition directly. I should have a large back pay waiting for me I just have no idea where it is or how to get it. I’m talking with a recruiter now to find out about going back into service and seeing if that would take care of school and financial problems. I may become an officer and train more in media and documentaries. Yet as of right now I owe a lot of money, have not gotten any back pay from the VA, and do not have enough to cover mere rent and bills.

I am asking the VA to drop any debts held against me and to please help me figure out how to get any monies I have in waiting. I’ve gotten nothing but different information from every source I’ve spoken to and do not know what I’m supposed to do. I cannot afford to be delinquent on debts and be kicked out of my apartment, yesterday I was told by a man working at the Los Angeles VA that I had to write a letter and send it into the VA and have someone from there call me back so I could actually speak with somebody who knows what they’re talking about and help me out. Please do call me at 732-261-2895, anytime, and if I can’t speak or am unable to pick up please leave a message with your number and contact information to call you back directly. I appreciate you taking time to read this and hope that it helps you help me.

Thank you,

Mike Antonucci