Edward Brezinski var i samme miljø som kjente navn som Keith Haring, David Wojnarowicz og Jean-Michel Basquiat i kunstscenen på Lower East Side, men nådde aldri samme nivå av suksess som sine samtidige. Make Me Famous avdekker hvorfor en så veltilkoblet, men besynderlig maler aldri lyktes, til tross for hans maniske fokus på å oppnå berømmelse.

«Thankfully, Make Me Famous, an obsessive documentary on a chimerical character named Edward Brezinski, who seems as worthy of remembering as a bad odor, is not only filled with remarkable raconteurs but is told by a pair of filmmakers—the husband-and-wife team of Brian Vincent (director) and Heather Spore (producer)—who manage to use such rambling old yarns as a brilliantly digressive structure for a feature-length movie.»

«In full disclosure, I was asked to be in this movie but demurred because I couldn’t think of one nice thing to say about Ed. This I honestly regret because it clearly didn’t stop anyone else from being in the film. In fact, most of the humor that makes this such a winning picture comes from everyone describing the stupidity, desperation, and annoying omnipresence that made Ed as pervasive as the smell of alcoholic piss on the streets then.»

- Carlo McCormick, Artforum

Brian Vincent er en utdannet fra Juilliard School Drama-avdelingen (Gruppe 23). Han har vært en profesjonell skuespiller og medlem av AEA og SAG/AFTRA i over 20 år. Make Me Famous ble valgt som en mottaker av NYSCA-stipendiet (2019) og som deltaker i IFP Film Week Spotlight on Documentaries (2019). Filmen er Vincent's regidebut.