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7 to 10 Days (2003)
Exit One Productions
Status: Seeking Distribution
Writer and Director: Geoff Eads/ Carrie Sterr
Producer: Geoff Ead, Richard Platzman, Ben Scurria
Starring: Michal Dean, Honor Norwood
Locations: southern VT western mass
Plot: Using a distinctive blend of computer animation, digital video and 8mm film shot entirely on location in Vermont and Western Massachusetts, 7 TO 10 DAYS is a gripping medical drama that takes a compassionate, eye-opening look into the lives of everyday people dealing with chronic illness, while raising important questions about the possible role of environmental issues in viral outbreaks. The film tells the story of Simone Juarez and Neal Goldman, a young man with the Epstein-Barr virus, a chronic disease that attacks the immune system, putting him at risk for opportunistic infections. On a road trip through Southern Vermont's pristine Green Mountains the couple camp in what they believe to be an unspoiled wilderness. After a kayaking accident, Neal develops a strange rash and slight fever. When his symptoms take a sudden, severe turn for the worse the couple enlists the help of a local naturopathic physician Dr. Jody Noé in an attempt to discover the true nature of Neal's illness. As Neal is rapidly swept away on the tide of his sickness he is checked into a local hospital where Simone must engage in a battle of wills with the unsympathetic doctors, a battle that quickly escalates into a desperate attempt to save her lover's life, and her own.
Genre: drama
Contact: geoff@marlboro.edu  or 802-380-1902
(Updated 2/9/04)

Advice and Dissent (2002)
FilmShack Productions
Status: Post-Production
Director: Leib Cohen
Producer: Stephen Fromkin, Robert Spruill
Starring: Eli Wallach, Rebecca Pidgeon, John Pankow, Sean Conant, Kitty O'Sulliva
Genre: Dramatic Comedy
Filming Locations: Dedham, Massachusettes
Director of Photography: Alec Jarnagin

Airplanes & Restaurants (2001)
NewbieFilm Productions
Status: In Production
Director: Stasia Patwell
Written by: Christian Kiley
Starring: writer: Christian Kiley
Genre: Dramedy
Filming Locations: New York City, Boston, Newton and Watertown, MA
Plot: Boy leaves home, boy meets boy, boy's parents divorce, boy goes home, boy realizes "you can't go home," boy leaves home again.
Contact: NewbieFilms, (617) 407-2106, email ckiley17@collegeclub.com
(Updated 06/26/2001)

All Shook Up (1998)
Status: Production
Directed by: Eugene Celico
Starring: Bess Meyer, Kristin Griffith, Seamus McNallyFilming Locations: Southeastern Connecticut
Plot: Shaun (played by Bess Meyer) is a make-up artist at a funeral parlor who becomes a helpmate to her pregnant mother, Mattie (played by Kristin Griffith) while rediscovering love with a local firefighter, Noah (Seamus McNally).
(Updated 9/6/98)

All the Rage (1998)

Pinkplot Productions
Status: Released in Fall 98, Screens Feb. 99 in CA
Success: Grossed $159,039 in fall of 1998, $12,508 on opening weekend October 18, 1998
Directed by: Roland Tec
Starring: John-Michael Lander, Jeff Miller, Paul Outlaw, Merle Perkins, Sarah Pfeiffer
Filming Locations: South End, Esplanade, and Back Bay in Boston, Mass.
Plot: Stewart [played by David Vincent], a somewhat shy and awkward book editor, fails to immediately succumb to the buffed Christopher’s charms while Christopher becomes drawn to the warmth and natural openness of this man who spends as little time at the gym as he spends choosing his wardrobe.
Coverage: Read a review of "All the Rage" in a past issue of NewEnglandFilm.com
Purchase: Buy a copy of it from BuyIndies.com.
(updated on 1/31/99) 
 
Almost Townies (1999)
Status: Seeking Distribution
Director/Producer: Matt Quinn
Starring: Lacey Parker, Skip Kelly, Michael Buckley, Nathan Crooker, Chris Mann and Cheryl Finlayson
Genre: Comedy
Filming Locations: Suburbs, South of Boston
Plot: A digital video feature about the lives of four small town New England friends. They spend their lives drinking at the local bar and working their dead end blue collar jobs. Things change when a girl from their high school comes back from college and changes the life of one of the guys.
Web: http://www.almosttownies.com
Contact: MajaqProductions@hotmail.com
(Updated 06/12/2000)

Amherst Pines (1996)
Status: complete
Company: Low Rez Productions
Writer/Director: Michael N. Sutton
Producer: Michael Sutton, Daniel Small, Brian Dilg
Starring: Jim Chiros, Rob Giardina, Kerri Cook, Nessa Hill
Filming Locations: Various locations thoughout NH
Plot: Childhood friends grow up and taylor their lifestyles based on  guilt, ultimatums, and manipulation of one another. There are no redeeming characters in this movie, only degrees of what constitutes being a monster.
Genre: B-movie, suspence
Contact: lowrez@hotmail.com. 

Alphabet (2002)
Status: Pre-Production
Company: pixievision productions
Writer/Director: Chelsea Spear
Producer: Chelsea Spear and Kat Thomas
Starring: Catherine Pano; others tba
Filming Locations: Medford High School, Medford, MA; Suffolk University, Boston MA
Plot: Told from the perspective of Emily, a twelve-year-old math genius and french horn player, Alphabet looks at the correlation between music and math and how both are used to communicate.
Genre: drama/experimental
Web: www.pixievision.com/alphabet.html 
Contact: 617-775-1118 alphabetsoup@tuvaorbust.com 
(Updated 5/11/05)

Amistad (1997)

Status: Released on December 10, 1997
Budget: $40 million
DreamWorks Productions.HBO Pictures/DreamWorks SKG
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Nigel Hawthorne, Anthony Hopkins, Mathew McConaughey
Produced by: Debbie Allen and Colin Wilson
Genre: Drama
Filming Locations: Massachusetts State House Senate and House of Representatives chambers; Providence, Newport and Pawtucket, Rhode Island; Mystic Seaport and Groton Long Point, Connecticut
Plot: Amistad depicts the1839 mutiny onboard a slave ship traveling towards the Northeast Coast of America and the court-room drama that followed.
Behind-the-Scenes: One photo-journalist's coverage of the set can be found at http://www.newport1.com/amistad/
Coverage: read a review of Amistad in a past issue of NewEnglandFilm.com

Anatomy of a Ghost (2004)
Nuclear Summer Productions
Writer and Director: Pat Monahan
Producer: Tom Provencher
Starring: Jeremiah Gauthier, Ayla Barreau, Tim Caron, Joanna Vincent
Locations: Derry New Hampshire, Boston Massachusetts
Plot: Coming of age story about a boy out of high school who has everything possible going wrong for him. His friend comes back after missing for over a year and tries to help him get his life back together, get him into a school, and find the girl he's been in love with for 4 years before she leaves for her overseas study program.
Genre: Drama/Thriller

An American Nurse At War (1997)

An American Nurse at War, Inc.
Status: Wrapped
Senior Producer/Director: Steve Hooper
Producers: Steve Hooper, Chrys Montgomery, Jayne Burnett
Genre: Documentary
Plot: This 36-minute documentary, shot on Beta SP, tells the story of a WWI Red Cross nurse who spent four years in France caring for sick and wounded soldiers. The film is based on 650 original photos and 50 letters in the collection of nurse Marion McCune Rice of Brattleboro, Vermont. Life within the hospitals is documented showing the horrors nurses went through in treating soldiers torn apart by battle in the trenches.
Behind-the Scenes: The film has attracted the attention of the History Channel. The Rice story (Rice was the subject of the film) will be included in their documentary- "Letters Home-Letters From WW I."  
Contact: Steve Hooper, 5 Colby Street, Keene, NH, 03431, Phone: 603-357-8356, email shoop@cheshire.net. Website: www.nurse-at-war.org
Coverage: Read an article about the film in a past issue of NewEnglandFilm.com.
Purchase: Buy a copy of the film at BuyIndies.com.
(updated 6/28/00)

The Autumn Heart (1998)
Status: Screened in Sundance 1/99
Directed by:Steven Maler 
Starring: Tyne Daly, Jack Davidson, Ariel Gabino Martinez Gonzalez, Willy O'Donnell, Ally Sheedy, Davidlee Willson
Written by: Davidlee Willson
Filming Locations: Boston, Cambridge and Saugus
Contact: The Film Cellar, 21 Merchants Row, Suite 5, Boston, MA 02109, upm@webproductionhouse.com, http://www.webproductionhouse.com/autumn/
(updated on 1/31/99)

Aviator: An American Dreamer (2003)
Barnatt Brothers Productions
Status: Seeking Distribution
Director: Joshua & Nathan Barnatt
Writer: Nathan Barnatt
Producer: Barnatt Brothers Productions
Starring: Nathan Barnatt, Joshua Barnatt
Locations: Milford, Mendon, Hopedale, Massachusetts
Plot: A, getting toward middle-aged guy named Kip has dreamed of becoming a pilot his whole life. He will be taking his pilots test for the 13th time. A documentary crew followed kip for the week leading up to his test.
Genre: Mock-umentary
Contact: www.barnattbrothersproductions.com or 508.333.5034.
(Updated 5/2/04)

Bangkok Zigzag (2001)

immersion film
Status: Seeking Distribution
Directed by: Mike Dougherty & Rob Kirwan
Written by: Sheryl Feldman
Produced by: Mike Dougherty & Rob Kirwan
Filming locations: Bangkok, Thailand
Genre: Documentary
Plot: This film explores the lives of five motorcycle taxi drivers in Bangkok, Thailand. These young men, many of whom grew up on rice paddies, have left the country and taken up the lethal vocation of driving motorcycle taxis in one of the world's most famously congested cities. They work around the clock with 120 other drivers out of a courtyard in the Huay Kwang district of Bangkok - a tough but lively neighborhood; one where drugs, gambling and corruption disappear into the bustle of a huge fresh market and lines of street stalls.  The drivers clip past exhaust pipes, shave the sides of buses and maneuver agilely through a metallic sea of traffic. To survive the brutality of the roads, one driver takes refuge in memories of his upcountry childhood, another draws upon the protective power of magic amulets and ritual tattoos.  bangkok zigzag is an intimate portrayal of how these men are negotiating their lives in a rapidly transforming social environment and creating a unique urban subculture as they do so.
Contact: Rob Kirwan, 361 Newbury St. 5th Floor, Boston MA 02115; 617-306-4862; robertkirwan@yahoo.com
Web Site: http://www.immersionfilm.com
(updated on 7/28/00)

The Basement (2004)
Status: Available on Video
Company: Joel Nawskon Productions
Director: Joel Nawskon
Writer: Joel Nawskon
Starring: Matt Lapins
Locations: Agawam
Plot: A fighter is locked in the basement of a maniac, and his best friend has to save him.
Genre: Thriller/Horror
Website: www.JoelNawskonPro.cjb.net.  
Contact: Yondory@aol.com. 
(updated on 3/31/05)

Battle of Blood (2004)
Wizard Productions
Director, Producer, Starring: Art Paul/Shirley A
Writer: Art Paul
Locations: Greater Lowell
Plot: A battle takes place between two vampire brothers
Contact: WizardIcon5@hotmail.com. 
(Updated 5/7/04)

B-Boyz (1995)

Status: Complete
Company: B-DownFilmworks
Director: Greg Carter
Writer: Greg Carter
Producer: Harold Austin
Starring: Maurice Brightaupt, Abdul Nur, Cherril Best, Damon Tyson
Locations: roxbury
Plot: A rising politician comes to his old neighborhood to take revenge on his wife's lover.
Genre: Drama
Distributor: CityLife Cinema
Website: http://www.bdownfilmworks
Contact: gregc33@bellsouth.net

Bedford Springs (2002) 
aka: Two Blind Mice (copyright)
Status: Post Production
Company: Black Sheep Films LLC
Director: Marc Berlin
Writer: Marc Berlin
Producer: Marc Berlin/April Mosqus
Starring: David Garver, R.J. Reed, Melissa Hickey, Ali Anderson
Locations: Newport, R.I., Middletown, R.I., Fall River, MA
Plot: Guy, a twentysomething far too intelligent for the small town he lives in challenges his friends to do something with their lives...and crime isn't out of the question!
Genre: Comedy
Contact: Marc Berlin
Email: marcb@ids.net
Phone: 401-846-3453
Contact: April Mosqus
Email: april77@eudoramail.com 
Other: Director of Photography: Donald Strine
Assistant Director: Neil Kinsella

Beer Muscles (2004)
Balls Productions
Status: Seeking Distribution
Writer and Director: Griffin Marks
Producer: Griffin Marks, Andrew Wetzel
Starring: Bill Booker, Matt McGuire, Carmen Jessee, Jesse Dunstan
Locations: New Hampshire, Massachusetts
Plot: When evil wine mogul, M. Pinot Grigio destroys all the beer in Barleyville, a local bartender and his slacker buddy must fight to get it back.
Genre: Comedy
Website: www.beermusclesmovie.com. 
Contact: Griffin D. Marks 1362 N. Bosworth B2 Chicago, IL 60622 773-486-6527 griffindmarks@hotmail.com. 
(Updated 3/4/04)

The Big V (2000)
Status: Principal Photography Begins May, 2000
Directed by: Fred Surr
Written by: Ted Page
Story by: Ted Page and Fred Surr
Produced by: Fred & Ted Entertainment
Filming locations: Boston area
Plot: A comedy about two guys who make a pact to both have a vasectomy (The Big V) on the same day. Their decision proves to be far more complicated than they could have imagined.
Contact: Fred & Ted Entertainment, 361 Newbury St. 5th Floor, Boston MA 02115; 617-236-7577; fredola@aol.com 
Web Site: http://www.fredandted.com/ 
(updated on 7/28/00)

The Billy Todd's War (2003)
Rhinoceros Productions
Status: Pre-production
Written/Directed by: D.R. Farquharson
Produced by: Denton Hunter, Monte Young
Genre: Comedy
Website: www.AmericanRhino.com  
Contact: info@americanrhino.com

Biting the Hand (2000)
Kingdom County Productions
Status: Production completed
Directed by: Jay Craven
Genre: dramatic comedy by Jay Craven
Contact: Libuse Binder, Associate Producer, Kingdom County Productions, 949 Somers Road, Barnet, VT 05821, phone: 802-592-3190, fax: (802) 592-3193; kcp@sover.net 
(updated on 6/12/2000)

Black and Chrome (2000)

Status:  Complete
Directed by: Jeff Hudson
Filming Locations: Jamaica Plain, MA
Plot: An underground b/w, 16 mm motorcycle feature.
Contact:  Jeff Hudson 36 Chesire St., Jamaica Plain, MA 02130; jhudson@world.std.com  (617) 522-5989
Behind the Scenes: Jeff Hudson has done numerous music videos including Pat Metheny and O-Positive.
Web Site: http://www.blackandchrome.net/  
(Updated 7/28/00)

Black & White & Red All Over (1997)

Status: Now on video. Showed on BET Network and the Sundance Channel
Directed and written by DeMane Davis, Harry McCoy, and Khari Streeter
Produced by Mark Hankey, DeMane Davis, Harry McCoy, and Khari Streeter
Starring: Thomas Braxton, Jr., Lord Harrison, MyQuan, Damian, Bob Florestal, Naomi Ramsey
Filming Locations: Boston and Cambridge
Plot: In the dramatic competion at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival, this film portrays a group of six friends who laugh, argue, and get high, most of them choosing to ignore the fact that black-on-black violence is severely diminishing their population until a murder puts them in a life-or-death situation.
Contact: DeMane Davis, Caballeros, P.O. Box 1141, Boston, MA 02117; Phone: (617) 536-1949; Fax: (617) 247-0217; hank@picturepk.com 
Coverage: read a review of Black & White & Red All Over in a past issue of NewEnglandFilm.com
Purchase: Buy a copy of it from BuyIndies.com.
(Updated 7/28/00)

BlackMale (2000)

Circle Pictures
Status: Complete; 2000
Directed by: Michael and George Baluzy
Starring: Roger Rees, Bokeem Woodbine
Filming Locations: Connecticut
Genre: Thriller
Plot: Jimmy and Luther are a couple of con-men who have hit rock-bottom. In a desperate move to get some quick cake, they hatch a plan to blackmail a doctor in order to pay off their antsy loan shark. What they're not counting on however, is for the good doctor to be more of a bear than their loan shark. It's all buildup until the fiery showdown between our two heroes, cops, the loan shark and a doctor that is loco in his coco.
Purchase: Buy a copy at BuyIndies.com.
(Updated 7/28/00)

Black Men Can Fly (2005)
Protown Productions
Status: Seeking Distribution
Director, writer, producer: Ken Bento & Napoleon X
Starring: George S. Lima
Locations: Rhode Island
Plot: George S. Lima's story spans 86 years and goes from New England to Harlem, to the Deep South and back. He was an aviator when it was thought that black men couldn't fly. This story makes us realize that even through the trials, tribulations, struggles and suffering, Black Men Can Fly..
Genre: Documentary
Website: www.blackmencanfly.com. 
Contact: (Updated 2/02/06)

Blanket Time 4 (2003)
C&BS/Death
Status: Production
Director: Branden Hill
Writer, Producer, Starring: Branden Hill, Karl Konopka, Colin Reilly
Locations: Agawam, Ma
Plot: Two guys who are forced to seek help after they're car breaks down, discover gruesome murders at the hands of an apparent Blanket.
Genre: Horror
Other: Submitting to Tromadance 2004
(Updated 12/7/03)

The Blue Diner (2000)

Status:  National theatrical run
Written/Directed by: Jan Egleston
Written/Produced by: Natatcha Estebanez
Filming locations: Boston locations
Plot: One of the few fully bilingual American independent films, this dramatic and hilarious story celebrates how a Puerto Rican mother and daughter confront a lost father, lost language, and lost love. Misunderstood and equally stubborn, these women clash powerfully and comically until they realize how much they need each other.
Contact: The Blue Diner Films, 10 Mt. Auburn Street Suite #1, Watertown, MA 02472, tel:  617.923.2478, fax:  617.923.2487, e-mail: dinerazul@aol.com
Web Site: http://www.bluediner.com
Behind-the-Scenes: "The Blue Diner" will be premiering at the Chicago Latino Film Festival April 20th-May 2. The Festival is the premiere showcase of Latino films in North America and we are thrilled to be an Official Entry of the Festival.
(updated on 01/10/01)

The Blue Shoe (1999)
Status: Starting 2 year theatrical run with Spike 'n Mike's Film Festivalin March '99
Produced by: Peter Reynolds/FableVision
Directed by: Gary Goldberger
Starring: A Blue Shoe and a Green Boot
Plot: An animated love story between a blue shoe and a green boot.
Praise: Recently featured in Animation World Magazine, critic Marcy Gardner called The Blue Shoe "an eloquent combination of movement, stillness and storytelling that allows us to put our heart into the soul of this little shoe. Reynolds creates adult children's stories that satiate and remind us to go outside of the lines. After seeing the film I remember feeling like somehow a light had been turned on inside of me."
Coverage: Read a company profile of CF Video/Fablevision
Web site: http://www.fablevision.com
Contact:  Info@FableVision.com 
(Updated 1/31/99)

Blue Vision aka In Dreams (1999)

Status: Released in January 15, 1999
Dreamworks SKG
Success:  $4,593,000 opening weekend (USA); $23,091,000 winter 1999 (USA)
Directed by: Neil Jordan
Written by: Bruce Robinson
Distributed by: Red Feather Photoplays
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Annette Bening, Aidan Quinn
Genre: Thriller
Filming Locations: Northampton, Amherst, and Southampton, Massachusetts
Plot: Annette Benning stars as a woman who shares dreams with a serial killer.
Purchase: Buy a copy of it from BuyIndies.com.
(Updated on 7/13/98)

 
The Boondock Saints (2000)

Production Company:  Trademark Pictures
Status: Released on video February 2000
Written and Directed by: Troy Duffy
Filming Locations: Massachusetts
Starring: Willem Dafoe and Sean Patrick
Genre:  Action/Comedy
Plot: Two Irish brothers become vigilantes and try to fight crime in their neighborhood. But are the methods they use any better than the criminals they hunt?
(Updated 7/28/00)

BOXedMAN (1998)
Dark Horse Productions
Status: Seeking distribution
Awards:  1998 Winner - Rhode Island International Film Festival; "Best of Fest" Audience Award!
Directed by: Nicholas Pasyanos
Starring: Richard "Ace" Aceto, Elliot Cohen, Terri Leander, John Cicero
Filming Locations: All over RI and MA
Plot: Romantic comedy, a young man tries his hand at selling cardboard boxes, and finds out how hard life really is. Plenty of wacky co-workers, customers, and situations. Comedy in the Farrelly Bros style.
Web Site: http://www.boxedman.com
Contact: producer@boxedman.com 
(Updated on 1/31/99)

Boys Home (1999)
Coruway Film Institute
Status: Production to begin summer, 1999
Genre: Documentary
Plot: The story of Fernald State School, the first institution in North American created for developmentally disabled individuals, and the people who built, who lived and who died behind the walls of the institution.
Behind-the Scenes: The film, formerly titled IDIOTS, SIMPLETONS & FOOLS is anticipated to complete shooting in Summer 2001, with an edit by 2/02.
Contact: Coruway Film Institute, 871 Islington St., Portsmouth, NH 0380; 603-436-3092, fax 603-427-6589 email: wcrogers@coruway.mv.com website: http://www.portsmouthnh.com/cfi/about.html
(updated on 6/9/99)

The Bridge is Over (2003)
Aha Films/ OTC Films
Director: Mwalim
Writer and Producer: Mwalim & Hartman Deetz
Starring: Leah roberts, T. Mark Roderick & Joe Gronroos
Locations: Cape Cod & New Bedford
Plot: The 20-something year-olds of Cape Cod who don't see a need to cross the bridge and one young man's decision to venture out at the end of the summer.
Genre: Comedy
Contact: OTC PO Box 831 Mashpee, MA 02649
(Updated 2/18/04)

Bridges (2005)
RockIT Media
Status: Post Production
Director: Eric Angra
Writer: Thomas Mathe
Starring: Thomas Mathe, Julie Mcniven
Locations: New Hampshire
Plot: It is Summer Break, and a time of great transition for Alex. He is  faced with the challenges of leaving his New England home and his best friend,  Dave, to continue his education a thousand miles away in North Carolina. This, 
however, is the least of his worries when he encounters Catherine, a smart,  funny and beautiful girl who challenges Alex to realize his greatest fear. But  does Alex have what it takes to cross that bridge?
Genre: Drama
Contact: Website: www.bridgesthemovie.com. Email: eangra00@hotmail.com. 
(Updated 6/7/05)

Buenas Intenciones (2001)
Our Lunacies Harmonize Productions
Status: Complete
Director/Producer: Jeff Zimbalist
Genre: Documentary
Filming Locations: Bolivia, Paraguay, Mexico, Chile
Plot: In the isolated jungles of Paraguay and desolate mountains of Bolivia, young North American service volunteers are involved in a heated cultural clash with empowered, indigenous villagers over voice, respect, and intelligence.
Contact: Zimbalista@yahoo.com 

Bummer Beat (2003)
White Thorn Media
Status: Seeking Distribution
Written by: Chuck Nordstrom
Directed by: Chuck Nordstrom
Filming Locations: Boston, MA
Plot: The story of a reporter named Ed Hunt who is assigned by his newspaper to investigate a gruesome murder. Hunt quickly discovers that the case is more complicated than he ever imagined. Hunt's curiosity leads him on a mysterious and dangerous search. He encounters the seductive wife of the murder victim (Peggy Hunt), a suspicious detective (Michael O'Neil), and a prophetic mental patient (Ted Lothrop). Hunt suddenly discovers that he is the main suspect and must prove his innocence before it's too late.
Contact: email, bumerbeat@yahoo.com. website: www.geocites.com/bummerbeat.  
(Updated 6/11/04)

Cereal Killer (2001)
Playomatic Productions
Status: Available on Video
Written by: Steven Stuart
Directed by: Steven Stuart
Produced by: Steven Stuart & Stuart Wickson
Starring: Jason Reulet & Jennifer Wilson
Filming Locations: Essex, Beverly & Manchester, MA
Plot: Behind the scenes look at a serial killer's bizarre breakfast rituals.
Contact: Steven Stuart, 978 412-9449, 978 337-5902, email playorama@aol.com
(Updated 6/26/01)

The Chester Story (2001)
Velveteen Films
Status: Pre-Production
Director: Rebecca Anne Bagley
Writer: Rebecca Anne Bagley
Genre: Drama
Filming Locations: Wilmington, NC
Plot: One night in a small, New England town, fate brings together three lives: an entertainment lawyer returning home to his dying mother after years in escape of his past, a woman trying to reclaim her supposed love, and a boy with a penchant for the sixth sense who struggles with the death of his father and overbearing love of his single mother.   When the past and future suddenly bind these people together on a journey of need, forgiveness and discovery, they realize they’ve gained something when they least expected it- love.
Behind the Scenes:  Pre-Pro begins in NC Jan. 9th, 2001, production begins Feb. 19th, 2001.
Web: : www.velveteenfilms.com
Contact: Courtney Williams at 617-393-1674, email: courtney@velveteenfilms.com
(Updated 11/3/00)

Children of Convenience (1998)
Status: Unknown
Directed by: Mark Fogarty
Starring: Mark Fogarty, Jon Audette, Krishan Oberoi, Karen Kane
Filming Locations: Rhode Island and SE Massachusetts
Plot: Charlie (Fogarty), a rude and self-serving boy, and his trusty sidekick Bruce (Audette) take a ride through their ordinary town on an ordinary night only to find that this night will be far from ordinary.
Contact: Mark Fogarty Exile Movies 14 Hawkins St. Greenville, RI 02828;
401.949.5513; emorgan@lightweight.com 
(Updated on 12/5/98)

Click (2002)
Status: Pre-production
Company: Dugan & Story Productions
Directed by: Scotty Dugan
Written by: Scotty Dugan
Producer: Scotty Dugan & Robert Schoenhut
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Filming Location:  Hampton Beach (NH), Seabrook (NH), Hampton Harbour (NH), Salisbury (ME), Los Angeles (CA)
Plot: A world-renowned photographer is dispatched to a New England coastal community to determine what makes its visitors fall in love.
Contact:  Dugan & Story Productions, No. Hollywood (CA)
Web Site: www.clicktheflick.com
Other: Script Supervisor, Jill El-Darwish; Assistant Camera / Still Photographer, Sean Conant; 1st Assistant Director, Alan Chaput; Director of Photography, Robert Schoenhut; Composer, Peter Hume

Cider House Rules (1999)

Miramax Films
Status: Released in winter 1999
Success:  $110,098 opening weekend (USA); $57,385,000 (USA)
Awards:  2 Academy Awards:  Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor
Directed by: Lasse Hallström
Starring: Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron, and Kathy Bates
Filming Location:  Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont
Plot:The film is based on John Irving’s novel about Wilbur Larch, a young physician who offers women either "an orphan or an abortion" in early 20th century rural Maine.
Coverage: Read a review of the film in a past issue of NewEnglandFilm.com.
Official Site:  http://www.miramax1999.com/ciderhouse/index.html 
(Updated on 6/12/2000)

A Civil Action (1998)

Status: Released December 25, 1998
Walt Disney Productions/Touchstone Pictures
Directed by: Steven Zaillian
Written by: Jonathan Harr (book), Steven Zaillian
Starring: John Travolta, Robert Duvall, Kathleen Quinlan, John Lithgow
Genre: Drama
Filming Locations: Boston, Dedham, Jamaica Plain, Waltham, Northbridge, and Palmer, Massachusetts; Fenway Park, Boston Public Garden, Beacon Hill.
Plot: A political lawsuit ensues after eight Boston families lose children to leukemia and blame the toxic dumping of two local corporations.  Jan Schlittman risks finances and his career to fight for the dead children's families.  Based on Jonathan Harr’s book.
Web Site: http://www.movies.com/civilaction/
(Updated 7/13/98)

Coin Laundry (1999)
Status: Complete
Directed by: Teddy Alvarez
Filming Locations: Boston, West Roxbury, and Newton, Massachusetts
Plot: A story about two friends and their takes on women and relationships based on their own experiences. One guy has just been dumped from a long term relationship while his friend can't get past two weeks in a relationship.
Behind-the-Scenes: Director Teddy Alvarez's feature film debut. Editing was done
at the BFVF using their Avid Media Composer.
Contact: Kamran Khan at Area52_kam@hotmail.com 
Web Site: http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~khank/presskit.html 
(Updated 7/28/00)

Could Be Worse! (2000)
Midburb Productions Inc.
Status: Complete; Sundance Film Festival 2000
Director/Co-writer/Producer: Zachary Stratis
Director of Photography/Co-writer/Producer: Vilma Gregoropoulos
Special Effects/Animator/Stills Photographer: Mary Kocol
Genre: Mockumentary
Plot: In this genre-busting feature, director Zachary Stratis plays himself - a filmmaker trying to get his traditional Greek-American family to make a musical film celebrating their lives.  When the character Zack tells his family that the film will include the fact that he is gay, the fireworks begin.  His father is dead set against his publicly "coming out" and his brother and sisters decide that the film should be about them.  As the family takes over Zack's film, their musical numbers reflect each family member's unique slant on life. The twist is that it's all real - Zack's actual family play themselves and the issues that unfold are from the heart.
Coverage: Read an interview with Vilma Gregoropoulos in a past issue of NewEnglandFilm.com.
Contact: Zack Stratis at 617-876-9141 or zach@midburb.com
(updated on 7/28/00)

Courtesans (2002)
CC 600, Inc.
Status: Complete
Director: Colin Cohen
Genre: Satire
Plot: An animated Gogolian comedy about corporate prostitutes.
Website: http://www.cc600.com
Contact: 162 Willow Road, #10 Nahant, MA 01908
(updated on 7/28/00)

Creeping Paralysis (2000)
Ion Spire Pictures
Status: Post-Production
Written by: John McCosh & J. Albert Lemieux
Produced by: John McCosh
Directed by: J. Albert Lemieux
Starring: Laura Mckeena, David Morwick, Tim Dennis, Danielle Vachon and Sara Wilson
Filming Locations: Quincy, MA
Genre: Horror
Plot: A couple on the lamb, takes cover in an abandoned warehouse, that happens to be owned by a cult, the couple makes a deal with the cult, for their unborn child, in exchange for some gold, but the couple backs out, the leader of the cult unleashes the undead on them.
Web Site: www.ionspire.com
Contact: ionspirestudios@aol.com
(Updated 12/13/00)

Cry For Me (2000)
Farmhouse Films
Status: Complete, seeking distribution
Directed by: Richard Frost
Written by: Richard Frost
Produced by: Mike Burdick, Brian McPhee
Starring: Michelle Patch, Dylan Paschke, Brian McPhee
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Filming Locations: Hull, Cheshire & Pittsfield, MA
Plot: "Cry for Me" explores a young man's battle with depression and its affect on his personal relationships.  His depression manifests into a human-like form, instigating a powerful life or death struggle.
Web Site: http://www.farmhousefilms.com 
Contact: Richard Frost at rfrost@farmhousefilms.com
(Updated 4/20/01)

Dances with Monster (2001-2002)
Uppie Production
Status: Pre-production
Director: Firefighter Tim Andrew
Writer: Tim Andrew
Producer: Tim Andrew
Starring: Kevin Mcmullen
Locations: Naugatuck, Middlebury-Connecticut
Plot: 3 boys go fishing, get chased by monster. The fatherless boys become friends with him. Great aerial and quick sand shots, and under water rescue. Filming with Sony PD 150, Senn. mic, and glidecam gib.
Contact: Tim Andrew 1-203-729-1243

Dangerous Crosswinds (2004)
Back Lot Films, Inc.
Status: Pre-production
Writer and Director: Bill Millios
Producer: Bill Millios, Karen Sampson
Locations: New Hampshire
Plot: A Pulitzer-Prize winning writer assists in the mercy killing of a friend.
Genre: Drama
Website: www.backlotfilm.com 
Contact: Back Lot Films, Inc. PO Box 306 New Boston, NH 03070 603-487-2348
(updated 1/19/04)

Day of the Scorpion (2003)
Gum Spirits Productions
Status: Available on Video
Director: Jim Cole
Writer: Katherine Bell
Producer: Jim Cole and Aaron Duffey
Starring: Aaron Duffey, Steve Jones
Locations: Portland, Pittsburgh, Boston, Vancouver
Plot: Teddy, 18, is slowly drawn into a spiral of corruption, violence, and self-discovery. A coming-of-age story, disguised as a romantic thriller.
Genre: drama
Website: www.gumspirits.com. 
Contact: 207-831-4898
(updated 12/11/03)

The Dark (2002)
emptyhouse film
Status: Post-Production
Writer/Director: Andy Davis
Genre: Horror
Producer: emptyhouse film
Starring: molly roberts bryant, leah tennis, john sawyer, jake beal
Locations: porter maine
Plot: a young woman finds sheer terror in the backwoods of maine while broken down with her boyfriend.
Website: www.emptyhousefilm.com 
Contact: andy davis- 207-625-4946

Dark Harbor (1999)
Artisan Entertainment
Status: Coming soon to video
Heart Sharp Entertainment
Written and directed by: Adam Coleman Howard 
Starring: Norman Reedus, Alan Rickman, Polly Walker
Filming Locations: Rockland, Maine
Genre: Thriller
Plot: Racing to catch the last ferry to an island getaway, a middle aged couple recognizes an injured body on the side of the road.  The couple, missing the ferry, stops to help the boy who refuses police involvement thus beginning an intense plot of hidden desires and suspicious activities.
(updated 7/28/00)

The Darkest Day (2004)
Status: Pre Production
Director and Producer: Andrew Harrington
Writer: Randy Robinson
Locations: Littleton, Massachusetts
Genre: Horror
Contact: Andrew Harrington 978 501 4261.
(5/24/04)

Dark Tides (1998)
Plus Films
Status: Complete
Directed by: Bret Stern
Starring: Paige Turco
Filming Locations: Maine
Genre: Thriller
Plot: Crime thriller set on a fictitious Maine Island.
(Updated 7/28/00)

Daylight Savings (1997)
Status: Complete.
Panic Pictures (Somerville, MA)
Directed and Written by: Ken Shaw
Producer: Kelly Lawman, Sean Kirby and Chris St. Cyr
Starring: Ken Shaw, Jennifer Adams, Wayne Mitchell, and Paula Foye
Line Producer: Bridget Allen
Genre: Comedy, Short (30 min.)
Plot: Daylight Savings is a 90's workplace satire based on the diverse relationships we all must endure and rely on to survive in the modern office environment. It's an offbeat take on a funny group of guys whose personalities are often bigger than the jobs they do, or the cubicles they occupy. Mikhail and his wise-cracking cohorts plod their way through coffee breaks, lunch breaks, and heartbreaks at a typical large corporation -- where the employees often function in their sleep, coping by using large doses of caffeine and humour.
Web Site: http://www.citizenken.com/microfilm/
Contact:  kshaw@citizenken.com 
Updated 7/28/00)

Dead Soul: A Fairy Tale (1998)
Status: Released on August 28, 1998
Lonely Man Productions
30 min Short Film
Produced, Written and Directed by: David Kann
Starring: David Belayche Marisa Corradino
Cinematographer: Ed Tillman
Filming Locations: Los Angeles, Martha's Vineyard
Post Production: Galen Films on Martha's Vineyard
Genre: French Gothic Drama
Music Composed by: Charlie Esposito with additional songs by Rhea's Obsession and Human Drama
Plot: This haunting tale of love and one man's downward spiral into madness opens with Mia, a little girl who is the pupil of a once great French painter, Georges Boudet. Mia's curiosity in a mysterious cabinet rekindles Georges's obsession with a doomed love from his past. Falling victim to his all too real demons, vividly imagined from his own unresolved guilt, Georges experiences violent flashbacks of a love lost, which leaves him helpless, with only one alternative.
Web Site: http://www.lonelymanproductions.com  
(Updated 8/18/98)

The Deserter (2004)

EBB Enterprises
Status: Complete
Writer, Director, Producer: Eric B. Borgman
Starring: Eric Bruno Borgman, Michael Kaplan, Michael Greeley, Frank Croteau, Steven Ricci, Anthony Lea
Locations: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
Plot: A British Revolutionary War drummer accidentally deserts his regiment and is hunted down for execution.
Genre: Comedy, drama, historical
Website: http://www.geocities.com/
Contact: http://www.geocities.com/ebbpeg/Deserter.html 
(Updated 5/3/04)

Diabolical Tales: Part I (2005)
Cosmic Control Productions
Status: Complete
Writer/director: Brandon Kane
Producers:  Don Gerron and Brandon Kane
Starring:  Brian Bedell, Mike Larose, S. Matthew Aod, Rachel Knutton, Don Gerron, Ted Cunningham, Brian Van Kay, Joe Mahoney
Filming Locations: Woonsocket, RI; Purgatory Chasm, MA; East Walpole, MA; Providence, RI
Genre: Sci-Fi/Comedy
Website:  www.cosmiccontrol.com/. 
(updated on 2/02/06)

Dirty Hari Krishna (1998)
Status: Shot in Boston in the summer of 1997.  Principal photography wrapped in August 1997.  A first cut was screened locally for cast, crew, and invitees on March 3, 1998.  Currently being re-cut as part of negotiations with a major distributor interested in releasing the film, which was one of the first in the country shot on DV, and the 7th digital feature produced by IFMP since 1989
Iron Fist Motion Pictures
Producer/writer/director: Steve Bennett
Associate Producers:  Heidi Tranberg, Harry Melanson
Make up:  Jen Zaharian
Starring:  Steve Bennett, Angelo Nargi, Heidi Tranberg, Craig Griffin, Rocco Sperazzo, John McDonough, John Fahey
Filming Locations: Massachusetts
Contact: Iron Fist Motion Pictures, 296 Columbus Ave., second floor, Boston, MA, 02116; 617-266-3003) ifmp1@worldnet.att.net  
Website:  http://www.ifmp.net/ 
(updated on 6/18/98)

The Diary of Sacco and Vanzetti (2004)
Memory Productions
Writer and Director: David Rothauser
Producer: David Rothauser & David Mauriello
Starring: David Rothauser
Locations: Ellis Island and Massachusetts
Plot: Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrants to America who were executed in 1927 after they were convicted of killing two people during a robbery in South Braintree. Their controversial trial became a political firestorm fueled by anti-immigration and "Red Scare" hysteria that gripped post-World War I America. In this unique docu-drama, shot on location around Boston where the case took place, Rothauser portrays Vanzetti using the one-time fish peddler's own letters, speeches and documents to revisit one of the nation's most notorious criminal cases.
Genre: Docu-drama
Distributor: Memory Productions
Contact: Memory Productions, 39 Fuller Street, Brookline, MA 02446, Tel. 617 232-4150, e-mail: Drothauser@aol.com. 
(Updated 2/2/04)

Dishes (2001)
Modest House Films
Status: Available on Video
Producer/Writer/Director:TeddyRyan                                                                                                
Distributed by: 500 Miles Cinema
Starring:  Teddy Ryan, Tiki Koelzer
Filming Locations: Worcester,
MA                                                                                                                      Genre: Absurd                                                                                                                                                    Plot: An insane college student gets advice from a pair of glasses and gets a visit from an intergalactic terminator, when his friend thinks he's really lost it.
Contact: teddyryan@hotmail.com 
(updated on 7/26/01)

The Doctor (2005)
Eskimo Films
Status: Complete
Directed by: Thomas Nöla
Genre: dark comedy, fantasy
Starring: Jerry Adams, Lindsay Todd, Douglas P., Stavo Mustang & more
Filming locations: Boston - Salem, MA - Cambridge, MA
Plot: A deranged child psychologist sorts out his thoughts on nature and death while being haunted by a semi-mute ghost of a child, a griffin in pinstripes, blackface Nazis and fascist freemasons.
Contact: nola@eskimofilms.com. 
Web Site: www.eskimofilms.com. 
Other: trailer at http://www.harpsichordology.info/doctortrailer.mov. 
(updated on 5/11/05)

Doctor Who: Timelock (2001)
Tempus Productions
Status: Pre-production
Directed by: Ken Rogers
Written by: Ken Rogers and Kurt Bergeon
Genre: Science Fiction
Starring: Kurt Bergeron
Filming locations: London, England, Quincy, Cape Cod, White Mountains, Desert of Maine
Plot: A non-profit spinoff from the original series, "Doctor Who", by the BBC.  The 7th Doctor and Ace are summoned by the High Council of Timelords to investigate theft of the Matrix and the destructive rippling of time itself.  Soon the Doctor is caught up in a tangled web of false reality as the wheels of fate begin to allign and his most dangerous for returns.
Contact:For any information regarding the project please feel free to contact the director at 978-884-6485, or email Ken4656@aol.com
Web Site: http:www.geocities.com/miscou2
(updated on 6/14/01)

Dog Days (2000)
Salamander Films
Status: Complete
Directed by: Ellie Lee 
Written by: Ellie Lee (script) and Judy Budnitz (story)
Produced by:  Laurann Lento Black, Jessica Milhollin, Ellie Lee;  Executive Producer, Robert Patton-Spruill, FilmShack
Starring: Sonya Genel, Will Lyman, Spencer Beglarian, Lisa Stathoplos, Jeremy Gottlieb, Joshua Zisholtz
Filming Locations: Quonset Point, RI
Genre: Drama
Plot: In a film that is at once funny and disturbing, a war-torn suburban family struggles to survive in a dystopic future in which America is besieged by unknown invaders, and they learn how little distinguishes human beings from man's best friend.
Website: www.salamanderfilms.com
Contact: dogdays@salamanderfilms.com
Behind-the-Scenes: Awards/Honors: Grand Jury Award for Best Short, 2000 Hamptons International Film Festival, New York; Special Jury Award, Florida Film Festival; Audience Award for Best Film of Festival & Jury Award for Most Promising Filmmaker, New England Film & Video Festival; Voted Best Boston Fiction Film of 2000  in its year-in-review by the Boston Phoenix, DOG DAYS screens regularly throughout 2001 with other Boston shorts at the MFA - check www.mfa.org for listings.
(updated 01/04/01)

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