Biography
Ronald Bronstein has spent the last five years several floors below street level in dingy projection booths all over New York City. There, deprived of both sunlight and fresh circulating oxygen, he has projected an average of 500 movies a year and watched almost none of
them. Frownland, his feature debut, premiered at SxSW in 2007, where it garnered both passionate raves and scathing pans, and inexplicably wound up winning a Special Jury prize for its "uncompromising singularity of vision". Despite a recent Gotham Award nomination and
screenings at the Museum of Modern Art in NY, Bronstein continues to writhe in a state of abject self-doubt, wondering when the arrogance that fueled the production of his work will return. Butterknife marks his first - and most likely last - stab at acting (assuming Joe comes
to his senses. God help/bless him).