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By day Kim Sky, director, writer and producer of Just Another Romantic Wrestling Comedy, works in the hotel business. Her children’s love for acting allows her to be involved with films through their acting jobs and this is where she is happiest.

When she attends a pro wrestling match, the fans and the entertainers all spew energy, excitement, so much loyalty in the arena. This is what inspired her to write a story combining all the elements of romance, comedy and pro wrestling.

Currently she is in pre-production with A Broken Child, a tear-jerker of a drama, and is looking for like-minded people that want to get involved on the production side of filmmaking. And, amid all this, she has kindly agreed to take some time to talk to Dale Pierce.

Dale: Recently, you filmed Just Another Wrestling Comedy. Tell people about the plot.
Kim: It’s a “little guys win too” fairy tale about a Jewish boy falling in love with the daughter of legendary pro-wrestlers and not holding anything back till he wins her heart.

I live this “reaching the goal” every day, I think we all do. Everyone has a goal in life, or just a daily goal, we’ll do anything to reach it. We live once, as far as we all know, we need to make the most of it.

Dale: Did you use any real wrestlers in this or just actors?
Kim: Joanie “Chyna Doll” Laurer, April Hunter, Don “The Predator” Frye, Vic D. Vine, Gino Caruso, Red Hot Russ, Slyck Wagner Brown, Josh Daniels, Jay Santana, Crappy The Clown, The Flamingo Kid Pinky, Ken Yasuda are all in the movie. They were all awesome to work with.

Dale: Wrestling comedies and wrestling films have been done to death in the mainstream, it seems. Do you think there is room for yet another film of this type?
Kim: This is the FIRST Narrative feature film to combine: Romance, comedy and pro-wrestling. It has the Hollywood look, sound and vibe along with an amazing cast, they are all stars. It’s different to all the others.

Dale: What might differentiate this film from the others out there?
Kim: I love the entertainers in the ring and the ones out of it. Of course with comedy you always pick on someone, but I tried my best to show that pro-wrestlers are people that have a life outside the ring and potentially how it would be like in real life.

It’s a family movie, a date chick flick, a romantic wrestling comedy - it’s so different. You have to see it.

Dale: Aside from this, do you have any other films on the market now?
Kim: Our second project is in the pre-production stage - A Broken Child - it won the Golden Palm Award at the 2006 Beverly Hills Film Festival. Best Script over all the very talented writers, we were shocked and so proud. I guess when you do anything with all your heart, it’s bound to show.

Dale: What interested you in the wrestling world?
Kim: Growing up in the Dominican Republic, pro-wrestling, baseball and basketball were the outlets of entertainment.

Pro-wrestling combines everything I love: drama, fight, comedy and romance. The pro-wrestlers love what they do, they create all this drama, some of them are incredibly funny with their characters and they fight for what they love. I love that. I’m a pro-wrestler at heart.

Dale: So you’re excited about the response you think Just Another Romantic Wrestling Comedy will have in the long run?
Kim: It’s being helmed as the “Cult classic film of this time”- absolutely excited!!

People from all over the world are asking about it - I always thought there were a lot of pro-wrestling fans and that the stars in the film were famous, but this is crazy.

Dale: Do you see a sequel coming?
Kim: Absolutely. The script is in development. Love action, romance and comedy-the best genres to combine. I’m going to have all the stars I want in this one….at least I hope LOL.

Dale: Outside of film, what are your other interests?
Kim: Watching my kids do films (they are actors). I surround myself as much as possible with all of what is related to film/writing/acting.

Dale: Any interesting behind the scenes stories to tell concerning this film and its making?
Kim: We had two Praying Mantis on our door step during the filming, it never rained and when we needed a cloudy day- there it was. It was God Sent.

While shooting at the ECPW arena in Lake Hiawatha by Gino Caruso, we didn’t have enough extras, so Joanie “Chyna Doll” Laurer, Melissa Cunningham (wife of Jeremy London), Vic D. Vine, Ken Yasuda took on the streets in their costumes and stopped everyone on sight to come to the arena. It was amazing to watch the love- people poured in and the scene was set. Unfortunately having so many beautiful sexy people in skimpy clothing walking the streets made someone call the cops, when they showed up, we explained what was going on and they wished us the best.

Dale: Any closing comments?
Kim: “We hope to inspire everyone to follow their hearts, when you have that urge stuck at the bottom of your heart to do something, and you feel you can do it - then go for it.”

Check out Just Another Romantic Wrestling Comedy today and be a part of making film history.

And finally: Just Another Romantic Wrestling Comedy is released on 17th April and will be available from the official website as well as Amazon, Highspots, RF Video and video stores everywhere.

You can find out more at justanotherromanticwrestlingcomedy.com,
myspace.com/romanticwrestlingcomedy or uczkowski.com

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