Editing Multi-Facial (section)

==Production==
''Multi-Facial'' was written, directed, produced, and scored by [[Vin Diesel]]. The film is semi-autobiographical, drawing on Diesel's own frustration trying to find work as an actor of mixed ethnicity.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.alternet.org/story/13863/ |title=The Multicultural Mysteries of Vin Diesel |work=[[AlterNet]] |last=Thrupkaew |first=Noy |date=August 15, 2002 |accessdate=1 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040626142714/http://www.alternet.org/story/13863/ |archive-date=June 26, 2004}}</ref> In the early 1990s, Diesel returned from Los Angeles to New York, frustrated with his failures in Hollywood. His mother gave him a copy of ''Feature Films at Used Car Prices'', a book about producing [[low-budget film]]s, which he later called "truly empowering" and said that it motivated him to make his own movies.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Brubaker |first1=Jason |title=Extreme DV Interview with Rick Schmidt |url=https://www.filmmakingstuff.com/extreme-dv-interview-with-rick-schmidt/ |website=Filmmaking Stuff |access-date=8 February 2023 |date=November 9, 2009}}</ref>

Diesel wrote a script for a feature film called ''[[Strays (1997 film)|Strays]]'', but was unable to secure financing for it due to being unknown. He decided to produce a short film instead and wrote the script for ''Multi-Facial'' in one night.<ref>{{cite podcast|series=''Happy Sad Confused'' |title=Ep. 81 Vin Diesel |date=October 19, 2015 |access-date=February 8, 2023 |url=https://soundcloud.com/happysadconfused/vin-diesel}}</ref> He shot it over the course of three days for $3,000.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://art-of-vin-diesel.com/aboutvin/biography1.php |title=Biography: July 1967 to March 2001 |author=Lilith |work=Art of Vin Diesel |accessdate=1 January 2014}}</ref> He also scored the film, but became disillusioned by the response to it and stopped working on it during the editing stage. With encouragement from his stepfather, he finished the final edit and screened it at the Anthology Film Archives in Manhattan.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vindiesel.hu/vindiesel/biography.htm |title=Biography |work=VinXperience |author=Lilith |accessdate=1 January 2014 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090314144019/http://www.vindiesel.hu/vindiesel/biography.htm |archivedate=March 14, 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref> He received a strong response, and the film was accepted for the 1995 [[Cannes Film Festival]], where it was screened to standing-room only crowds.