Rick DeLano has worked as a producer, executive producer, and financial consultant in the music and film industries for over twenty years. His fascination with the question of our place in the co...

Rick DeLano has worked as a producer, executive producer, and financial consultant in the music and film industries for over twenty years. His fascination with the question of our place in the cosmos began with a $1,000 internet challenge to provide direct scientific proof of the universally assumed motion of the Earth around the Sun. When he found he couldn't collect, he was astonished to realize no one had ever made a documentary film examining the Copernican Principle, the foundational idea of modernity itself, and how it came to be perhaps the most widely believed metaphysical assumption of the human race. "The Principle" is the first documentary examination of the Copernican/cosmological Principle, and has generated a bit of controversy. The film opens in October 2014 in the United States.

Michael Franzese grew up as the son of the notorious Underboss of New York’s violent and feared Colombo crime family. Franzese was "one of the biggest money earners the Mob had seen since Al Capone” a...

Michael Franzese grew up as the son of the notorious Underboss of New York’s violent and feared Colombo crime family. Franzese was "one of the biggest money earners the Mob had seen since Al Capone” and the youngest individuals on Fortune magazine's list of The Fifty Biggest Mafia Bosses, ranking #18, just five behind John Gotti. At his most affluent, he generated an estimated $5 to $8 million per week from legal and illegal businesses. It was a life filled with power, luxury…and deadly violence. Michael’s story is a modern-day Damascus Road experience, from his early days in the Mob and rise to power to God’s leading him to do the unthinkable: quit the Mob and follow Jesus. In fact, Nobody of Franzese’s rank had ever just walked away – and lived. Until now.