THE “LITTLE DOCUMENTARY THAT COULD” TAKES HOLLYWOOD BY STORM!

What do you get when you cross exclusive, never-before-seen footage of Robin Williams with a funny, streetwise New York comic-turned-Hollywood-sitcom-director, whose legendary storytelling skills deliver a combination punch that doubles the laughs?

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A comedic gem called Eye of the Storm, a feature documentary that has amassed a treasure trove of recognition and awards from national and international film festivals and is now being distributed by Bay View Entertainment on: Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Google Play and YouTube.

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A tour de force conceived, produced and directed by Brooke Harris Wolff, this film documents the storied showbiz career of Howard Storm, best known for directing Williams in the first three seasons of his breakout series, Mork and Mindy.

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"It’s the little documentary that could,” said Wolff, who self-financed this labor of love on the proverbial shoestring budget, stretching that string to its max.

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Since its completion, Eye of the Storm has won 150 Best Documentary awards, along with another 45 top awards, and has been shown in over 200 film festivals in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Austin, Chicago, Miami and more while expanding its international appeal in Paris, Cannes, London, Oxford, Rome, Florence, Milan, Berlin, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and cities in Asia, Iceland, Australia, Ireland, and much more.  

Both hysterical and historical, Storm shines as the Maestro of Mirth in this laugh-filled biopic that steamrolls through five decades of American comedy with tales from vaudeville (including a clip of Storm’s comedian father performing a classic vaudevillian sketch with him on The Merv Griffin Show) through the mob-ruled era of nightclubs (highlighting the famed Copacabana) to the sitcoms of the 70s and 80s — all the while incorporating the spontaneous antics of a young Robin Williams performing at his improvisational best.

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And oh what stories this master raconteur exuberantly recalls, sharing personal anecdotes about a small galaxy of stars including Robin Williams, Judy Garland, Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, Valerie Harper, Garry Marshall, Don Rickles, Richard Lewis, Penny Marshall, and Cindy Williams.

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Highlighted by spontaneous outbursts from Robin Williams interwoven with vintage clips from classic TV shows and films, Eye of the Storm is Wolff’s first venture into filmmaking. A seasoned writer by trade, she found herself repeating “I think I can, I think I can," successfully transforming the little documentary that could into the hilarious documentary that did.

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