Danielle Erwin is a rising director, filmmaker and producer hailing from Philadelphia. Her career began to soar in 2011 with the release of her debut film “Honor And Pride”, a short film focusing on...
Flying Kite Interview with Jon Foy & Jon will be in TEDxPhilly
Recent article in FLYING KITE, a Philly Blog
You've probably seen one, even if you didn't really know what you were seeing: A linoleum tile pressed into Philadelphia asphalt bearing this cryptic phrase: "Toynbee idea in Kubrick's 2001 resurrect dead on Planet Jupiter." Maybe you shrugged, maybe you mentioned it to a friend, but, most likely, it slipped through your mind like water through a sieve. Not so for Justin Duerr, star of local filmmaker Jon Foy's debut Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles. For him, these odd urban artifacts asked a question he couldn't shake, and the film follows him (and his collaborators) on a years-long quest to unmask and understand the elusive tiler.