From pizza to pictures

Michael DiManno, son of Solano County’s own Cenario’s Pizza founder Al DiManno, has made a name for himself in Tinseltown.
    “Hollywood certainly has its share of hustlers and hangers-on,” says DiManno, CEO and co-founder of Redwood Palms Pictures in Folsom, “but there is a solid group of people that are ethical, honest and hardworking. Those are the kind of people that we align ourselves with and they’re the ones that get most of the work done.”
    It was after DiManno made a solid living with insurance and staffing companies that he was approached to finance films. He has produced eight movies in the last two and a half years. The latest, Cover, received an endorsement from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and welcomed the company of Governor Schwarzenegger at a private screening in Sacramento in January this year.
    DiManno frequents the 50-minute plane ride to Hollywood and enjoys being able to return home to Northern California. While he, his wife and two boys currently reside in El Dorado Hills, Michael DiManno maintains close ties with Solano County. He makes sure to stop by Cenario’s Pizza, his family’s business, whenever he gets the chance. “I [always] have to bring a couple pizzas home,” DiManno jokes, “or my wife won’t let me in the door.”

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