Aaron (Dobler) Goldstein

The creator of www.dobleronfilm.com is known as Aaron “Dobler” Goldstein. The notably reclusive individual has resided in the city of Los Angeles since the month of July back in the year of the “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” or in non-movie talk…2000. Aaron attended the Los Angeles Film School (insert complementary praise here: “best school ever!”) and graduated in July of 2001 with a shiny certificate of completion in the field of Producing. The certificate now resides in Aaron’s room, framed on the wall next to his Kindergarten Diploma from the year of “Platoon,” otherwise known as 1986.

Since moving to Los Angeles, Aaron has been known to spend countless hours in darkened theaters from the old fashioned cinemas in Westwood, to the Kool-Aid serving Magic Johnson theaters in Inglewood. Rain or shine, on a Saturday matinee, there is no other place he’ll be…due to the fact bars don’t open that early. Yet Aaron digresses to discuss his Los Angeles life:

Fresh out of film school, he did a short stint at a Blockbuster Video, where he witnessed a woman pee on the floor in the middle of the store (brings a whole new meaning to the word customer service with a smile). From his humble beginnings, he started working at the short-lived TBS series as the factoid/researcher guy on “Worst-Case Scenario” (based on the at one time popular books). But as several people know within this industry, the gig doesn’t last forever, so Aaron found himself working on a female talk show “Berman and Berman,” where he discovered some of the finer and lesser known facts about a woman’s body. Unable to take any more talk about incontinence, hookers, breast implants, etc., he slid safely in at a smaller production company, Homerun Entertainment. Once onboard he received experience in production coordination, general manager’s assistance, travel coordination, office management, production management, stage management, producing, line producing and for the sake of stopping this list…so much more. It was his home away from for two and a half years with a company that did shows for the Food Network and the DIY Network. And then it happened. A faithful encounter on an unusually warm summer evening, Aaron met one of his idols… Leonard Maltin. With Mr. Maltin’s advice, “never stop putting yourself out there” and his newly minted Producer’s Guild card, Aaron did what he could to leave his cushy secure job for greener pastures; or what has come to be known as “mission 3.5” – transferring from the small screen to the darkened theaters with the giant screens he holds so close to his heart.

Two months of drunken “Sideways” inspired soul searching found him at the doorsteps of Gearhead Pictures, and its President Daniel Myrick, the director of “The Blair Witch Project.” Before long Aaron was hired on as Mr. Myrick’s assistant and has been working there ever since.

While Aaron has mingled with several celebrities during his Los Angeles sentence, he implores the old guy’s mythology and chooses not to “kiss and tell” about his true LA experiences (besides, that is what his excellently written blog is for).

Aaron has seen enough movies and knows that his life’s riddle is to work in the film industry in whatever way he can conceivably find possible or in other words…anything except in a job where he has to park cars.

dobler@dobleronfilm.com