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FINCH & LILY FILM PROFITS FOR POVERTY REDUCTION U.S.A.
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53 years old
CHICAGO, Illinois
United States
Last Login: 10/22/2009
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| General | TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE VIRAL PROMOTION
Objective:
Already handling their public relations efforts, Dark Sky Films, a division of MPI Home Video, were releasing their classic “Texas Chain Saw Massacre – Ultimate Edition DVD” and needed to reach their demographic before the street date the week of Halloween. Since the holiday was only 2 weeks away, the project had to be organized promptly.
Solutions:
R. Productions cast Hollywood newcomer David Skyler to star one of his popular viral video productions that has reached as many as half a million viewers. We brought Red Bull energy drink to the table to further branding efforts with in-video product placement.
In the spirit of the Halloween holiday, the piece was shot later in the evening with Red Bull cocktails and pizza provided by APART with a small gathering of 20 or so industry insiders. Christening the production was a guest appearance by the Kreep with holiday prose.
Work:
* Casting
* Pre Production
* Production
* Post Production
* Photo Shoot
* Logo Design
* Interactive E-Card
* Poster Design
* Postcard Design
* PR
* Web Strategy (blogs, social sites, message board, e-blitz, viral video)
Direct Mail
Results:
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Ultimate Edition DVD viral video quickly rose to the Most Recommended, Most Watched, and Most Featured YouTube videos in its category. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Ultimate Edition DVD is listed on Amazon’s Best Sellers list.
“… the Ultimate, the zenith, the most exhaustive possible celebration and dissection of this horror classic. I’d even wager that no one will be able to put out a better one in the next 10 years…”
- Fangoria
“A-”
- Entertainment Weekly | | Music | FINCH & LILY
a feature film
Profits to benefit Poverty Reduction
The Story
FINCH & LILY is a story of human kindness victorious over desperation, isolation and poverty. Written with the simple and stark brilliance of BEING THERE and the universal uplifting appeal of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, the storybook characters are set in fanciful and imaginative physical neighborhoods in the style of CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY yet they live in a Orwellian angst ridden and desperate world. Finch is a 40-something year old with style and generosity but noticeably traumatized by circumstance. We discover him one day in a transient hotel full of regular dwellers including Lily, a twenty-seven year old beauty imprisoned in her room by agoraphobia and posttraumatic stress. Despair and poverty pervade the hotel Starbrite and the surrounding neighborhood. A local Catholic poverty center and soup kitchen employs Finch. By 'being there' Finch uplifts the entire hotel residency, including himself, as he breaks the agoraphobic spell that has imprisoned Lily and withdrawn her beauty from the world. The story takes place between October and January including the celebrations of Halloween, Thanksgiving, Chanukah, Kwanza and Christmas.
The Crew
Richard O’Donnell (Producer/Writer)
Richard is a playwright, producer, actor, and stand-up comic living in Chicago. He has worked and lived in New York City and Chicago where he has written and performed for the stage and television. O’Donnell wrote the award-winning off-Broadway musical comedy One & One, Radio City Music Hall’s A Manhattan Showboat, and co-founded the New Age Vaudeville theatre company, the New Variety cabaret, and produced/hosted R. Rated, the Chicago comedy/variety TV show.
Katie Mahalic (Director)
Katie is a native of beautiful and sunny Davison, MI, a small town outside of Flint, MI. She attended Michigan State University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film, Communications, and Studio Art. Between 2000 and 2003 she lived in Los Angeles working as a script supervisor on syndicated television shows and as a stage-manager for Channel One News. While finishing her Master of Fine Arts at Columbia College Chicago in the department of Film and Video, she produced several Chicago-based commercials. Currently she teaches Screenwriting, Production I and Production II at Columbia College. The classes focus on the aspects of writing and directing short films. Her latest film, Michael Saints, a 15-minute short, is now being worked into a feature length script. It received the “Audience Award” for the Big Screen 13, Columbia Film Festival. Simultaneously, her film The Mole, a 10-minute short is circulating through domestic and international film festivals. The film has screened in the U.S, Canada, Australia, and has just recently been accepted to the Euro-Asian Film Festival held in Washington D.C. The Late Night Ride is Mahalic’s 5th short film and features senior citizens doing a hip hop routine in the middle of a small town bar.
Klaus Fuxjager (Director of Photography)
Klaus Fuxjager is an award-winning director of photography. He was first camera on Van Helsing (2004),The Prince & Me (2004), The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003), Blade II (2002), Hart’s War(2002), A Knight’s Tale (2001) and Cinematographer on Kinderspiel (2005), The Student of Prague (2004),Minulost (1998), Bila hora (1997), and The LastFighter (1996).
Adams and McDowell (Composers)
Dianne Adams & James McDowell, a husband and wife team, have been collaborating as composers/lyricists for over 25 years.
Dianne is a native of West Virginia and former Manhattan resident, has a diverse musical background. As both composer/lyricist and musical director/arranger, her credits include Broadway, television, and the world’s largest theater Radio City Music Hall. She is the recipient of numerous ASCAP awards, three of which were at the age of 19 for the score of her first off-Broadway musical, One and One co-authored with Richard O’Donnell. Dianne has participated in a multitude of NYC productions, most notably as Associate Conductor and Vocal Arranger of the Broadway Musical, Starmites, which received six Tony nominations, including Best Musical. As musical director, coach and pianist, she has worked with Grammy Award-winning artist Cleo Laine, as well as Tony-Recipient Nathan Lane (The Producers).
James is originally from Denver, Colorado, and has been actively involved in the field of music in many capacities, from composer/lyricist, to producer/arranger, and sound engineer. His musical score for The Wind in the Willows (written with wife/collaborator Dianne Adams and adapter/co-lyricist Gerardine Clark) was winner of 3 ASCAP awards following its New York City premiere at The New Victory Theater. James began music studies on trumpet, and later developed an interest in the guitar. He soon branched into arranging and composition, working in a variety of mediums from chamber-music groups to jazz orchestras. As composer and arranger, he created music for Shakespeare’s The Tempest and in collaboration with librettist/director, Jon Walter, he completed scores for 5 dramatic works. One of the works, their musical fairy tale, Rapunzel and the Dragons, led James to New York City for an Off-Broadway production at the Actors Playhouse, for which he served as musical director/conductor.
Audrey LeRoy (Executive Producer)
Audrey LeRoy has worked in the home entertainment industry for over 20 years. She has worked with major studios such as Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures in the areas of sales, marketing and promotion. She’s also represented independent film and documentary product with entertainment distribution companies such as Allumination FilmWorks, Goldhil Entertainment, and Home Vision Entertainment. Her areas of expertise include strategic planning, project management, negotiation, and communication.
Edward Colarik (Associate Producer)
Edward Colarik’s talent as a multi media visual artist speaks to the unbelievable wide range of his creativity. He has an international following of collectors from Australia, Austria, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Czech, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Russia, Spain, South Africa, Taiwan, and of course the USA. People from all over the world connect to the universal hallmark of his works.All of his adult life he has been a creator, artist, fashion designer, and TV & film producer. One of his most enjoyable experiences was teaching his highly rated film course at UCLA for four years. He has worked on more than 100 film and TV projects. He co-founded National American Entertainment Corporation; a production and distribution company forfeature films and TV shows.
Claudia Sullivan (Associate Producer)
For the past ten years, Claudia Sullivan was Marketing Coordinator for Home Vision Entertainment whose clients included the world-renowned The Criterion and Merchant Ivory Collections. While assisting the Director of PR, Ms. Sullivan helped supervise the media campaigns for over 200 DVD titles as well as media placement and events for such celebrated directors as Buck Henry, Jim Jarmusch, Ron Mann, Albert Maysles, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Lars von Trier, Liv Ullmann, Michael Apted, Michael Bay, Milos Forman, Spike Lee, and Terry Gilliam.
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Finch & Lily, a feature film in development by Starbrite Pictures LLC, a division of R. Productions in Chicago, is allocating a percentage of it’s profits to feeding the poor. “We want to help Poverty Reduction,” states Co-Executive Producer Jason Christensen, “And producing Finch & Lily is part education/part call-to-action in that regard. People have got to know that 37 million Americans are living at or below the poverty level!”
Finch & Lily, penned by award-winning playwright Richard O’Donnell and directed by Katie Maholic, concerns a middle-aged Albert Finch who takes up residence at a Chicago transient hotel, The Starbrite. There he befriends agoraphobic Lily Crumb and an array of wonderful characters that benefit in odd and miraculous ways from his simply “being there”. But Finch has a secret that will alter their lives forever, bringing a little bit of heaven to the residents of the Starbrite hotel.
Co-Executive producer, Michael O’Donnell, sees Finch & Lily as the new It’s a Wonderful Life, “It’s an uplifting story about random acts of kindness, that is reminiscent of the glorious Frank Capra film fare of the 30’s and 40’s.”
Broadway composers Dianne Adams and Jim McDowell are tapped to score while stage, film and TV actress Megan Cavanagh is slated to star as Sister McGee.
Pre-production begins Fall 2009. | | Books | R. (creative director)
Mike (art director)
Ricky (art director)
Hank (copy writer)
Claudia (director of operations)
Eric (director of production)
Terry (director media and communications)
contact@r-productions.com | | Heroes | BRAZILLIA R. KREEP a.k.a ‘THE KREEP’
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| Status: | Single | | Hometown: | Chicago | | Zodiac Sign: | Gemini |
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Barbara Hashimoto
Previously based in Tokyo and Los Angeles, sculpture, installation and performance artist Barbara Hashimoto has relocated to Chicago as Artist-in-Residence at BauerLatoza Studio, a multidisciplinary architectural design firm.
Born in New Jersey and educated at Yale, Hashimoto’s work has been exhibited throughout Japan, The U.S. and The Middle East and is in more than 250 public and private collections including The Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of American Art, The Museum of Arts and Design (New York) and The National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Static Multimedia
Dedicated to building a media community, Static Multimedia continually enhances its web elements to be the supreme source of mainstream and independent entertainment.
Boasting a diverse group of staff writers, Static Multimedia provides a clean, straightforward layout that allows you to easily access media without having to scour the internet or be bothered by a barrage of advertisements.
APART Arts
APART Pizza Company created APART Arts to support local artists and arts groups through financial grants, mentoring, and promotional partnerships.
Past Clients
Dark Sky Films
MPI Home Video
Gary Sherman (film director)
Tim Sullivan (film director)
2001 Maniacs Film
Driftwood Film
39 – A Film By Carroll McKane
APART Pizza
APART Arts
The House Theatre of Chicago
Han’s All Natural Sausage
Big Man Productions
R. Rated TV (Fox 32)
Melissa Rodwell “Boys” series (photograph exhibition)
Static Multimedia
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with: Prong, Cattle Decapitation, Mutiny Within
Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 7:30pm
Watch me in two Foster's Beer national commercials:
Foster's Beer "The Bailout":
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Also check out my latest film & TV projects at:
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Thanks!
We appreciate the add/support!
You really are far too kind to me. :)
I'm off to dreamland.. if I'm lucky.
Sweet dreams, R!
XO
E
You're more beautiful. :)
Thank you for making my week... and weekend.
XO
E
Aw, your words are always so beautiful, R. :)
I hope life is treating you kindly.
XO
Ella
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R. Productions. —I can’t tell you how delighted I am to have you join in, rather than be left behind. — W. Maltese, the chronicler of FLICKER: TEEN-WARRIOR SAGA.
Well, I don't know about my spirit, but I'm still breathing. :)
Really nice to see you back.
Have a wonderful Wednesday, R.
XO
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Hello R.! :). I've missed you. XO E
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Hello...
Thanks so much for the add...
All the best to your project!!!
Big Hug
Carla Matos
I just saw Liam perform a bunch of new Plush tunes at the Rainbo Club the other night. How have you been?
Happy Holidays from the Jet Black Appreciation Society!!
THANKS GIVING
T’detach such ripened folklore
brusque wings
stuffed n’ left ripe
liberty purged t’naught
as if ritual ghostly natives typify
stakes aflame n’ hands severed
to clear these from the table
t’glance about at faces known
family n’ friends
wishing t’be as one
that in nodded heads
soft whispers
pray thee
end all tyranny
power t’the ample
the few but never more
truly truly
this is t’be celebrated
in peace
a fresh
thanks giving
~Brazillia R. Kreep
theatre of the void
welcome t’my orb
into high spirits n’ dark wonders
splendid is the eve
in shadows claps the roar
‘tis a showman
quite the conjurer
performer
poet too
o’ travail t’reveal such splendid awe
as we stride
shoulder t’shoulder
into the mystical abyss
christened revelation
theatre of the void
~the kreep
HALLOWE’EN RISING
t’s here at last
kiddies aghast
beneath moonlight
the witch’s rite
sunup, sundown
t’all around
spooks t’globins
do abound
there’s mister bones
j. zombie jones
bats
rats
two old black cats
haunted tombs
cool boo costumes
trick or treat
wishes complete
so…
have a nasty hallowe’en
may dark and dreary
souls convene
-The Kreep
Spooks & goblins fill the air
Dancing ghosts like Fred Astaire
Witches brooms sway black cat jigs
Dracula shows off his digs
Zombies boogie quite a fright
Skeletons rat-a-tat the night
Hallowe’en is on its way
A Gothic tribes top holiday
-The Kreep
Dawn cracks the fiery orb
To peek-a-boo through puffs of vapor
Kiss earth with ancient lips
Give life to all encompassed
good day,
the kreep
Welcome to my page thank you for adding like to know more about you!
Eva O
Hi everyone!
charmed.
Thank you so very much for Bonnie Parker's poem!
That is one hell of a surprise!
You know I love it! I carry it in my wallet! ; )
Bisous,
Lenya B.