Street Legal Cinema derives its name from the eighteenth studio album released by Bob Dylan in June of 1978. Dylan, standing at the bottom of a stairwell that dumps unceremoniously out into a grungy city street, ready to walk out alone into the unseen urban blight, probably compromised, full of doubt and suspicion, which way to go, who to trust, maybe I should run back up the stairs to safety - all of these same uneasy feelings were at the heart of this production company when it first came into being in the summer of 1992. Such is reality when you're young, unsure of yourself, and possibly an impostor.

That was more than twenty years ago. Six features ago. Thousands of hours of production ago. We didn't run back up those stairs to the safe confines of god-knows-what. We came out "swingin' like Sonny Liston" and never looked back.

Stephen Vittoria is the founder and creative director of Street Legal Cinema. One day, he hopes to play centerfield for the New York Yankees, despite a long history of taking performance enhancing drugs. He lives in Los Angeles (under protest).

This photograph has nothing to do with Street Legal Cinema, we just thought you might like to see it.