FEATURE FILMS 19

FILM TITLE: The Last Witness

PRODUCTION YEAR: 2017
GENRE: Thriller
PREMIERE STATUS: New York City

RUNTIME: 1h 33 mins

COUNTRY: UK
DIRECTOR: Piotr Szkopiak

CAST: Alex Pettyfer, Talulah Riley, Michael Gambon, Robert Wieckiewicz

CINEMATOGRAPHY BY: Edward Ames

PRODUCER/S: Carol Harding

SYNOPSIS:Set in England 1947, a young, ambitious journalist risks love, career and ultimately his life to uncover the true identity of an Eastern European refugee and his connection to the British Government's collusion in the cover up of one of Stalin's most notorious crimes.

FILM TITLE: ELECTRIC LOVE
PRODUCTION YEAR: 2018
GENRE: Comedy/Romance
PREMIERE STATUS: NYC Premiere
RUNTIME: 79 minutes
COUNTRY: USA
DIRECTOR: Aaron Fradkin
CAST: Mia Serafino, Zachary Mooren, Matt Bush, Erik Griffin, Kyle Howard, Misha Reeves, Ben Faigus, Sharon Pierre-Louis, Byrne Owens

CINEMATOGRAPHY BY: Shane Collins
PRODUCER/S: Victoria Fratz, Maria Breese, Ben Faigus
SYNOPSIS: Five hopefuls traverse the modern dating scene in Los Angeles utilizing popular dating apps like Tinder and Grindr.

FILM TITLE: Flight 666
PRODUCTION YEAR: 2018
GENRE: Action, Horror, Independent

PREMIERE STATUS: NY
RUNTIME: 90 mins
COUNTRY: USA

DIRECTOR: Rob Pallatina
CAST: Joseph Michael Harris, Liz Fenning, Greg Furman, Jose Rosete, Renée Willett
CINEMATOGRAPHY BY: Josh Maas
PRODUCER/S: David Rimawi, David Michael Latt, Paul Bales
SYNOPSIS: Passengers and crew on an international flight are attacked by unseen forces that threaten all aboard. As they fight to stay alive, they start to realize that these are actually the spirits of murdered girls determined to stop their killer on board who will do anything to remain free.

FILM TITLE: VIEWER DIRECTION ADVISED
PRODUCTION YEAR: 2019
GENRE: DOCUMENTARY
PREMIERE STATUS: U.S. PREMIERE
FILM RUNNING TIME: 87 MINUTES
COUNTRY: CANADA
DIRECTOR: BEN KAPLAN
CAST: NORMAN LEAR, CAST OF BRADY BUNCH (Christopher Knight, Barry Williams, Susan Olsen, Mike Lookinland), MARK CENDROWSKI (Director of Big Bang Theory), TOM CHERONES (Director of Seinfeld)….PLUS MANY MORE
CINEMATOGRAPHY BY: BEN KAPLAN
PRODUCER/S: MARSHALL JAY KAPLAN
SYNOPSIS: Twenty-one year old Ben is on a journey - to follow his TV-obsessed Dad and explore how television consumption has evolved from one generation to the next. Where we once had appointment viewing, we now have total independence. We watch what we want, when we want, where we want and how often we want. At one time, television had the power to bring together an entire nation. Today, it can barely bring together a household. Has the individualization of how we watch television fragmented us as a culture?

FILM TITLE: Thank You for Supporting the Arts
PRODUCTION YEAR: 2017
GENRE: Documentary
PREMIERE STATUS: East Coast/NYC Premiere
RUNTIME: 73 minutes
COUNTRY: USA
DIRECTOR: Carolann Stoney and W. Alexander Jones
CAST: Liv Osthus, Gus Van Sant, Kevin Shapen, Jedediah Aaker
CINEMATOGRAPHY BY: W. Alexander Jones, Adam Johnson
PRODUCER/S: Jessica Daugherty, Cintamani Calise, Danielle Higgins
SYNOPSIS:
Viva Las Vegas is a preacher, just like her Lutheran minister father. Unlike her father, Viva preaches, "Thank you for supporting the arts," to people who throw bills on stage while she dances naked in a dark Portland strip club. The writer, singer, scholar, and stripper has been a leader for women in a lifelong battle against cultural expectations. Viva celebrates the female form, advocates for the empowerment of all women, and commands respect for women whose careers depend on their bodies. A shocking breast cancer diagnosis and double mastectomy did not dampen her missionary zeal, and Viva continues to dance, scars and all, reminding the rest of us that art is everywhere and art is everything.

FILM TITLE: ART BASTARD
PRODUCTION YEAR: 2016
GENRE: Documentary Feature Film
PREMIERE STATUS: NY
RUNTIME: 84 Minutes
COUNTRY: USA
DIRECTOR: Victor Kanefsky

CAST: Robert Cenedella/Art Bastard
CINEMATOGRAPHY BY: Douglas Meltzer & Jim MacDonald
PRODUCER/S: Chris T. Concannon

SYNOPSIS: What is art and how does it relate to society? Is its value determined by its popularity or originality? Is the goal profit or expressing one's personal vision? These are some of the questions raised as we follow fiercely independent New York artist Robert Cenedella in his artistic journey through decades of struggling for creative expression. A student, protégé and friend of German artist George Grosz, Cenedella is now passing on the legacy of Grosz’s approach to art, in the very same room where Grosz taught. ART BASTARD is a funny, touching, and insightful look inside the maverick mind of a true original.

FILM TITLE: Factory Cowboys-Working with Warhol
PRODUCTION YEAR: 2017
GENRE: Documentary
PREMIERE STATUS: North American premiere
RUNTIME: 76 min
COUNTRY: USA/Germany
DIRECTOR: Ulli Lommel
CAST: Joe Dallesandro, Ulli Lommel, Denis Fischer, Lilith Stangenberg, Tatjana Lommel, Richard Green, Bernhard Schütz, Kathrin Angerer, Jeanette Spassova, Max Brauer, Henning Nass, Tea Brown, Mikael Schallock, Colin McCracken, Isabelle Acker, Tobias Ulrich
CINEMATOGRAPHY BY: Voxi Bärenklau, Leif Karpe, Jurg Viktor Walther
PRODUCER/S: Ulli Lommel, Irene Höfer, Frank Dragun, Bernhard Storz
SYNOPSIS: Based on Ulli Lommel's biography "Factory Fame - Working with Warhol" (Belleville Publishing 2015), the story, written by Irene Höfer and Ulli Lommel, focuses on Warhol's Factory life in Manhattan during the late 70s and Ulli Lommel's and Joe Dallesandro's memories. It also interprets Warhol's belief (as confided on his 50th birthday to Ulli Lommel) that "Legends don't die, they're at the beach in Rio".