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Dearborn Filmmakers Win Cheers from Sold-Out Audience at Wyandotte Movie Premiere

'The Ed and Moe Show' finds an appreciative Downriver audience for their YouTube hit series.

Dearborn filmmakers Mike Eshaq and Mike McGettigan showed a couple episodes of The Ed and Moe Show for the first time outside of Dearborn on Saturday to a wildly appreciative sold-out crowd at the Wyandotte Arts Center.

They were invited as special guests at the premiere of Downriver filmmakers the Galeski Brothers’ .

The Ed and Moe Show has been viewed about a million times online through the show's YouTube page. (To watch the two episodes that were shown Saturday, We Get It and Grim Repo Man, click the video links to the right.)

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Eshaq is a former U.S. Marine and an Arab-American, but first and foremost, he’s a filmmaker. He writes, he edits, he directs, he shoots, he produces and he acts. But it’s the behind-the-camera action that he likes best, he said. Audiences approve, and so do other filmmakers.

“He’s the best filmmaker in Michigan,” said Scott Galeski, an award-winning Wyandotte filmmaker. “The editing, the acting, the production quality is just phenomenal.”

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The two Dearborn Mikes have lots of irons in the fire right now, and are looking to take their talents to Los Angeles in the future, Eshaq said.

“We’re trying to get our bearings and thinking a little bit bigger,” he said.

He’d love to see The Ed and Moe Show turn into a television series and/or a full-length movie.

The very successful online series, acted by Ali “bulldog” Abdallah and Sean McGettigan (brother of co-writer and producer Mike McGettigan), is a light-hearted comic look at Arab stereotypes cast in various situations, and is filmed entirely in Dearborn.

Both Mikes are graduates of The Second City’s school of improvisation. They were thrilled with the enthusiastic response of the Downriver audience to their films.

“It really warmed us to hear that it resonated,” Eshaq said.

The men wrote the first episodes of The Ed and Moe Show in 2009, he said.

“It was about a year and half from the idea to actually getting it online,” he said.

Now fans can enjoy the webisodes and wait and hope to see if the talented filmmakers will take it even bigger. Look out, Hollywood. Michigan talent is on the way.

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