Watch the full film & presentation in Episode 13 of SPI TV!Be sure to subscribe to SPI TV to get new episodes of SPI TV each Friday!On March 24th, 2015, I traveled to Puente Hills Mall in the City of Industry, which is located just south of Los Angeles. On this evening, from 6pm to 3am the next morning, I would be filming a short film that I would use to open my keynote presentation at New Media Expo in Las Vegas, just a few weeks later.It became so much more than I could ever dream of. This video - Episode 14 of SPI TV, is a behind the scenes look from filming that evening.Here's the backstory:I always go big when it comes to the presentations I do on stage. I try to be different, entertaining and memorable while also providing a ton of take home value too. The opening keynote at New Media Expo in Vegas was going to be my biggest presentation ever, so I decided to think BIG for this event.I started to plan this talk in mid-2014, after learning I was going to do this just a few months earlier. I gave myself almost a year to hone in on the message and figure out how to make it memorable, and I knew I had some time to do things that may have been a little more complicated to figure out and coordinate.I decided the talk was going to be about how to become "future-proof". In the world of media and online business, specifically this is about how to survive and thrive as technology and communication change so rapidly. What are the core principles and ideas that have always worked in the past that can keep us going into the future?Because this was about time, and I wanted to go big, I decided that I was going to enter the stage at New Media Expo in a Delorean - the time machine from my favorite movie of all time, Back to the Future. And because 2015 is the 30-year anniversary of the film and is also the year Marty and Doc travel to in Back to the Future Part II, it seemed like it would be the perfect fit.I couldn't just arrive on stage on a Delorean though without any sort of lead up, so I also decided to write the script for a short 3-minute film that I would star in, which would have me getting into a Delorean and after disappearing in the film, I would appear on stage at the event.It was a huge idea, but I was lucky to have a connection in Hollywood, my good friend Mitchell Peck, who hired me a while back to work on the website and social media campaign for an independent film. Mitchell works as a professional screenplay consultant. He has helped several others get their scripts turned into real Hollywood films and he was willing to help me fine-tune my script and connect me to a producer, Taylor Hart, who could gather the team together and make all of this happen.When I arrived at Puente Hills Mall, which is the same exact mall they filmed Back to the Future in (which is why I selected that location), I had no idea what I was in store for.What I thought was going to be a few guys with cameras and maybe a sound guy too, became this full-scale Hollywood production, including other actors, background people, make-up artists, and so many others who each played their own specific role in this film. Over 30 people were involved in the shooting and editing of my short film, which totally blew me away.So many amazing things happened that night. From being able to sit and drive in a real Delorean, to watching a Drone film us from high up above, to meeting all of these crazy people who love what they do - I couldn't be happier with the results of what we put together.Other Fun Facts About the Shoot!1. We were real close to getting the real Christopher Lloyd (who played Doc Brown) to being in the film. We were in contact with his agent for a couple of weeks, but it just didn't work out for financial reasons. I was very happy with Alan Murray, a look-alike who would have passed for the real thing!2. After learning that we were not going to get Christopher Lloyd, we tried to get Thomas F. Wilson, who played Biff in the Back to the Future series, to cameo in the short film. I wrote an entirely new script that had Biff's character in it. It involved him playing his real-life self, but going in and out of the "Biff" character and calling me a butt-head a few times, like he does in the film. 3. Our make-up artist, Katie Danza, is really Tony Danza's daughter!4. The Delorean is actually a very weak vehicle in terms of horsepower and speed. To grab some real hard-core engine sounds, the sound engineers recorded the engine of an Aston Martin going around the lot a few times, which was owned by one of the background actors! The sounds from the Aston Martin were put in place of the actual Delorean car sounds in the movie to give it some power in the film. 5. In real life, the Delorean's LED lights are white. In the film, however, they are blue. This is because when white LEDs are filmed using the camera we used, they turn blue. If they were blue in real life, then they would look purple in the movie, which wouldn't be right.6. A food truck (Woody's Grill Truck) catered our dinner, which was at midnight! We took an hour break, which is enforced by the actor's union. For about 15 minutes before the break ended, after we all ate, we were just sitting around doing nothing, but we were technically not allowed to film. 7. Randomly, a guy came out of the TGIF restaurant across the lot and looked at the entire production in surprise. When we asked him what was up, he said that he was in the same parking lot almost exactly 30 years ago, in March of 1985 when he saw the actual filming of Back to the Future. He watched Michael J. Fox tumble down the hill of "Lone Pine Mall" a few dozen times before they were finally happy with one of the takes. What an incredible coincidence!8. We had about 2 or 3 people on the crew who were assigned simply to keep people out of the taped-off parking lot. There's a 24 hour fitness in the mall and we had a lot of look-loos wanting to come by to see what was going on. Once they found out, man of them wanted to take pictures of the Delorean! I don't blame them, of course!9. There's a scene that we filmed about a dozen times that never got put into the final shot. After I am called on by the tour bus guide as the winner to drive the Delorean around the lot, I jump around in excitement and head off the bus. As I head down the stairs of the bus, I stop and pause to turn the lights on on my shoes. I thought it was really funny and increase the "dorkiness factor", but in post-edit they said that it totally stopped the flow of the story. Not a huge deal, but I was really excited to see what that would have looked like. 10. Besides the day I got was married and the days I had each of my children...BEST...DAY...EVER!Thank you to everyone who was involved. One more time, I'd like to share the cast and crew with you here below:PRODUCED BY:Taylor HardMitchell PeckWRITTEN BY:Pat FlynnDIRECTED BY:Maxwell AlbertPat Flynn - HimselfDoc Brown - Allan MurrayTour Guide - Charlie FarrellTour Guide - Angie SanchezStorm Trooper Fan - Brennan SchlooNinja Turtle - Nik GlazerTourist - Jeff JessamineTourist - Justin BaragliaTourist - Inger TudorTourist - Heidi SchoolerTourist - Angela PattersonTourist - Simone WassermanTourist - Nihan GurVan Couple Man - Van WhiteVan Couple Woman - Katie DanzaDirector of Photography - Neil FernandezProduction Manager - Van WhiteProduction Designer - Matthew Harvey1st AD - Will Lambe2nd AD - Justin Hopper2nd 2nd AD - Dean Schaller1st AC - Drey SingerSound Mixer - Ryan AgostinoGaffer - Ronnie GotchKey Grip - Marlon ObrienScript Supervisor - Evan HartCostume Designer - Camille CalvinHair & Make Up - Katie DanzaProduction Coordinator - Travis BerensCatering Woodys Grill TruckDelorean Provided by Adam KontrasEdited by Jeff OsborneSound, Color and VFX by ReAgent ProductionsAdditional Lenses Provided by PanavisionHollywood Tour Bus Provided by AmazingLATours.comVW Euro Van Provided by Mariana AbaroaCameras - Red / BlackmagicPost-Production Software - Adobe Creative CloudShot on location in Southern CaliforniaSpecial Thanks to SAG-AFTRA and Robert Zemeckis----