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Eating Razors (a love story) (2005)
FOR THE BETTER OF MANKIND PRODUCTIONS
Status: Available on video
Director:  Ron DeCaro
Writer: Ron DeCaro
Producer: Ron DeCaro
Starring: Ron DeCaro, Taylor Stillman, Emily DeCaro
Genre:  Horror
Locations: Gloucester MA
Plot: Two years after losing his wife Laura in a car crash, Trent struggles to let go. Now, an alcoholic short on money, he is a man on a mission. As his remaining relationships erode around him it becomes clear what needs to be done...but how far will Trent go to be reunited with his lost love?
Contact: www.forthebetterofmankindproductions.com. 
Email: (updated 2/02/06)

Eighteenth Angel (1996)

Rysher Entertainment
Status: On video
Directed by: William Bindley
Starring: Stanley Tucci, Rachel Leigh Cook
Filming Locations: Boston's Back Bay
Purchase: Buy a copy of it at BuyIndies.com.
(Updated 7/28/00)

Elements (1996)
Daisy Productions; Rob Morrow
Directed and Written by: Shawn Smith and Anthony Stark
Starring: Jayne Brook, Clair Forlani, Rob Morrow and Jake Weber
Filming Locations: Berkshires, MA
(Updated 7/28/00)

The Elm Street Book Club (2003)
JSW Films
Writer and Director: Josh Woolf
Producer: Kris Hackel
Starring: Lee Citron, Matt Hedges, Molly Schnelle
Locations: Universal Studios Hollywood
Plot: Three members of a quiet neighborhood book club read and exchange books in an eerily utopian manner, until one member decides to break the rules.
Genre: Drama, Experimental
Website: http://www.jswfilms.com/ 
Contact: josh@jswfilms.com. 

Eleven Seconds (2000)
Status: In development by Mark Campbell Productions
Produced by: Julie Campbell
Executive Producers: Socorro Ortega of Pickaxe Productions & Elaine Rogers of Palmer & Dodge
Screenwriter: James Redford
Plot: Based on the life of Travis Roy, the BU hockey player who suffered a spinal cord injury and was paralyzed in the first 11 seconds of his NCAA hockey game.
Contact: rrebort@aol.com
website: www.elevenseconds.com
(updated 5/11/00)

Engine Trouble (2002)
Spare Key Productions
Status: Pre-production
Director:  Brad Barnes
Writer: Brad and Todd Barnes
Producer: Todd Barnes
Starring: Emily Pelletier, Matt Brown
Genre:  Narrative Short
Distributor: Showtime Network
Locations: Waterbury, CT; Naugatuck, CT
Plot:  A 7 year old girl is convinced by her cantankerous toy fire truck that he's needed as a reinforcement in New York.
Contact: phone: 718.768.7117 fax: 718.840.0385
Email: todd@7scars.com. 
(updated 4/18/02)

Enough Already (1999)

Status: Video
Wolfeboro Films
Directed by: Tom Keenan
Filming Locations: Wellesley, Waltham, Newton, Brans University
Plot: A college senior can't seem to break it off with his girlfriend, although it's been more than "enough already."
Coverage: Read a review of "Enough Already" in a past issue of NewEnglandFilm.com.
(updated on 7/28/00)

Entering Acton (2004)
Tiki Creations
Status: Post-Production
Director, Writer, Producer: Randy Marquis
Starring: Dennis Lemoine, Randy Marquis, & Anna Stubblefield
Locations: Worcester, Oxford, Sutton, Rutland, Boston, & Watertown, MA
Plot: Having discovered has was adopted as a baby, Dominick sets out to meet his birth parents on a 4 day/3 night cross-country adventure. Driving from Colorado to Massachusetts, his best friend & girlfriend in tow, Dominick discovers the true meaning of family, love, and finding yourself when you are completely lost.
Genre: Drama
Website: www.tikicreations.com. 
(Updated 2/9/04)

Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase (1998)
Status: 1998 New England Film and Video Festival Winner
Directed by: Joshua Oppenheimer
Starring: Jennifer Lee Carrell, Eric Marler
Filming Locations: Massachusetts, Harvard University, New Hampshire

Ephesus (2000-2001)
Faith Foundation Independent Films, a division of FFFMS
Status: PreProduction
Written by: Pastors Linda & Kendall Hudson
Directed by: Scott Quillin & Douglas Kennett
Produced by: Faith Foundation Indepent Films, Executive Co-Producers Pastors Linda & Kendall Hudson
Starring: Myquan Jackson
Filming Locations: Providence, RI
Plot: Mason Brooks,a young Afro-American inner city minister grows overly ambitious and loses sight of the important things in life, his family and his God. His preoccupation with his work leads to the breakdown of his new marriage and an unfortunate accident, which leads to the most serious trial of his life. Humbled like Job, Mason repents and is vindicated by God in an unexpected turn of events.
Contact: : Pastor Linda Hudson, Tel.(401) 861-0746 M-F 1-5pm or Mornings/Weekends at (401) 464-8388
(added 10/26/00)

Eruption (2002)
Kinetic Films
Status: PreProduction
Written by/Directed by: Trevor Chamberlain
Produced by: Kristen Merrill
Plot: Lauren, a 21 year old college student has to deal with the sudden death of her mother.
Genre: Drama
Website: www.kinetic-films.com 
Contact: : Trevor Chamberlain, trevor@kinetic-films.com Kristen Merrill kristen@kinetic-films.com 
(added 4/1/02)

Eternal Embrace (1999)
Unicorn Shadow Productions, a Ziad H. Hamzeh Production
Status: Wrapped
Executive Producer/Director: Ziad H. Hamzeh
Executive Producer: Frank Bryant
Director of Photography: Gregory Hudson
Co-Producer/Intern Director: Robert J. Sweda
Associate Producer: Albert “Bert” Brown
Producer/Screenwriter: Neringa
Filming Locations: Weston, Waltham, Swampscott and Dover.
Genre: Proof-Of-Concept film (48 min.) shot on 35mm, to be added to a package for a television series. Also included in the package will be a completed series bible titled THE ROGUES, the pilot titled, SURRENDERED SPIRIT and the script for the first hour episode, ALWAYS REMEMBER.  
Coverage: Read an interview with the director & producer in a past issue of NewEnglandFilm.com.
Contact: Unicorn Shadow Productions, PO Box 64, South Walpole, MA 02071; unicornshadow@ibm.net 
(updated on 6/21/00)

The Face of the Sepent (2002)
Status: Post-Production
Company: Fearless Films (US)
Written/Produced by: David Craig
Directed by: David Craig
Starring: Dean Paul, Lana Novac, Steve Roth, Bo Brinkman & Brandon Smith
Filming Locations: Houston, TX
Plot: The Face of the Serpent is an action-thriller with strong political undertones of local government corruption. The film focuses on a morally conscious assassin called Quinn. His next target is a Russian immigrant named Tasha, whom Quinn is misled into believing is a drug courier. During Quinn's surveillance of Tasha, planning for the perfect moment to make his kill, he becomes infatuated with her beauty and pure innocence. Ultimately, Quinn rescues Tasha from the hands of another assassin and takes her into his protection. The two join forces to find out who wants her dead and why. In the process, Quinn discovers secrets from his past and battles with the inner demons that made him the man he is today.
Genre: Action/Thriller
Website: www.thefaceoftheserpent.com 
Contact: Fearless Films
11834 Wilcrest Dr.,
Suite 167, Houston, TX 77031
E-Mail:  FearlessFilmsUSA@aol.com 
(Updated:  5/16/02)

Fade into the Blue (2003)

Ajene Films Presents
Status: Seeking Distribution
Writer, Director, Producer: Khari Ajene
Starring: James Devin, Khari Ajene, Keta James
Locations: Richmond, Virginia
Plot: a Writer reluctantly, teams up with a former serial killer, to create their best work ever.
Genre: Drama
Website: http:\\FIB2003.cjb.net 
Contact: AjeneFilms@aol.com. 
(Updated 12/19/03)

Father Soho (1998)
Budget: $3 million
Written by: Marjorie Spoto & Ray Gardner
Directed by: Marjorie Spoto
Filming Locations: Providence, RI; Boston, MA; Soho, NY
Genre: Drama
Plot: A Catholic Priest rebels against society's predjudices and makes a friend in the least likely place.
(Updated 5/25/98)

Family Trees (1999)
Status: Shown at the Berlin Film Festival
Written/Produced by: Lars Trodson
Directed by: Ralph Morang
Starring: Lisa Stathoplos and Gregg Trzaskowski
Cinematographer: Ron Wyman
Assistant Camera: Brent Beavers
Sound: Eric Gleske
Boom: Susan Morse
Production Manager: Victoria Brown
Filming Locations: Maine
Plot: The story centers on their characters, Wil and Martha, who are getting married a week after the film begins. That week they run a gauntlet of advice and comments from friends and relatives which encourages doubts Wil and Martha have about getting married. The climax of the film happens in a roadside cabin in rural Maine where Wil and Martha hole up away from everyone to deal with those doubts.
Contact: http://www.seacoastnh.com/familytrees at familytrees@SeacoastNH.com 
(Updated:  6/12/2000)

F'D in the Head (2001)
Rhinoceros Productions
Status: Pre-Production
Written/Directed by: D.R. Farquharson
Produced by: Denton Hunter
Starring: D.R. Farquharson, Beno Chapman, Daiva Deupree, Spring Hill, Dan Johnson
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Plot: Love Story that follows a different path of perception
Contact: f_dinthehead@yahoo.com 
(updated 2/28/01)

Final Curtain Part 3 -- Intermission (2003)
Curtain Call Productions
Writer, Director, Producer: Mike Goodreau
Starring: Carrie Anne Morton, Michael Corbett, Derek R.Mellor, Eric Pope, Chad Pytel, Juliette Rose, Denise Russell
Locations: Uxbridge, MA, Syracuse, NY
Plot: Twice before, actors were killed while rehearsing the doomed play "The Battle of Taft." The actors at the Cobbleville Playhouse in New York figure this show would give them the tremendous publicity they need. What they don't realize is that the main character, British spy Ethan Carver, wants to tell his own story. One by one, the actors fall prey to the vicious Ethan's deadly wrath until the last few survivors are forced to face him. Can anyone stop this maniac before it's too late?
Genre: horror
Contact: finalcurtainfilm@aol.com. Website: www.finalcurtainmovies.com. 
Updated (5/24/04)

Five Dollars an Hour (2003)
Doiron Digital
Status: Available on Video
Director, Writer, Producer: Jeff Doiron
Starring: Nick Dousis
Plot: An elderly man has an encounter with his past.
Genre: Dramedy
Website: www.DoironDigital.com 
Contact: (860) 303-4224 or (860) 691-1675.
(Updated 3/14/04)

Five Minute Fame (1999)
Status: Production/Post-Production
Written & Directed by: Theresa Peterson
Starring: O'Brian Tomalin, Sarah Chloe Howard, Russell Brooks, Mal Thursday
Filming Locations: Northampton and surrounding Western Mass. communities
Genre: Faux Documentary
Plot: 5 Minute Fame is the story of 3 karaoke performers who have been chosen
as subjects of a documentary by a UMass/Amherst graduate student.  In the process of documentation, the film's subjects are altered by the cinematic investigation.
Medium: Digital video
Contact: Siren Pictures: 413/527-6993 or 5minutefame@excite.com
(added 7/20/99)

Foreign Body (2001)
Status: To begin production August 2000
Genre: Action/Comedy
Plot: Haley, a professional hit woman, is pulled off duty for planting a clue at an otherwise flawless crime scene. Forced by her superior to hide out on a coastal Maine island, this highly trained killer must navigate clambakes, yard sales, and the quirky, outgoing townsfolk. Having only to kill time, Haley becomes entangled in a local love triangle, and while the FBI closes in and her boss turns against her, Haley and her new neighbors find themselves in a deadly showdown that will change their lives forever.
Filming Locations: Maine
Contact: Newborn Pictures, 32 Pearl Street, Portland, ME 04101-4131, 207-761-0110.
Web Site: http://www.newbornpix.com/html/foreign_body2.htm 
(Updated 7/28/00)

Floating (1999)

Arclight Productions
Status: Distributed by Phaedra Cinema. US theatrical release, various foreign releases, home video release from Winstar. Film has been playing on the Sundance Channel for a year or more.
Starring: Chad Lowe
Filming Locations: Concord
Contact:  floatfilm@aol.com
Web Site: http://members.aol.com/floatfilm/ 
(Updated 3/21/01)

Freelance (1998)
Cute Little Ferret Films
Status: May 12, 1998 release
Directed and Written by: Jason Gerstein
Starring: Rob Fijol, Kevin Blanding, Chris McMullin, Josh Hatch
Filming Locations: Amherst, MA
Genre: Action
Plot: A creative college student is making his tuition payments without the loan officer.  This time the money comes from his paycheck as an assassin for hire.
(updated 7/13/98)

Gabriel 6 (1999)

Written/Directed by: Brett Bagenstose, Tony Kopetchny
Starring: Ivan Collazo, Sean Owens, John Carmello
Genre: Drama
Status: Won the Jury Prize for Short Film at the 1999 Atlantic City Film Festival. Now screening on www.undergroundfilm.com 
Plot: In an alternate universe, mankind has become a victim to it's own technology. As the world crumbles around them, humans fight to regain their hold on the planet. One young man, stricken by the pain of his unnatural life, searches to find a solution to man's struggle. his solution is to usher the Earth into it's final battle - the battle between Heaven and Hell.
Purchase: Buy a copy at BuyIndies.com 
Contact: www.neo-pangea.com
(Updated 7/28/00)
 
Gavin's Way (2000)
Status: Complete; at New York Film & Video Festival
Rhinoceros Productions
Producer: Denton Hunter
Directed by: D. R. Farquharson
Written by: D. R. Farquharson
Starring: D.R. Farquharson, Daiva Deupree, Beno Chapman, Dan Johnson, Spring
Hill, Gabriella Viela, Brian Hammer
Genre: Comedy,
Filming Locations: Massachusetts
Plot: Three Irish Catholic cousins are faced with the toughest decision of their lives. Deciding who they are. Sarcastic Comedy about love, life, and escaping from a smalltown family business.
Coverage: Read an interview with the director by NewEnglandFilm.com.
Web Site: www.gavinsway.com
Contact:: (978) 463-7456; Hunterd@gavinsway.com
(Added 7/30/00)  

The Gentleman from Boston (2000)
Status: Seeking Distribution
Company: The Education Project
Director: John Stimpson & Michael Connolly
Writer: John Stimpson & Michael Connolly
Producer: Mark Donadio
Starring: Michael Landes, Wendy Benson, Francis McCarthy
Locations: Boston
Plot: A brash young state representative learns that he has to "play ball" in order to get things done on Beacon Hill.
Genre: Politcal drama
Website: www.gentlemanfromboston.com 
Contact: John Stimpson Productions 1 Oak Hill Road Fitchburg, MA 01420 (978) 343-7979 

Geezers (1999)
Written and Directed By: Peter Bohush
Starring: Sam d'Entremont (Willie); Howie Nickerson (Vic); David Morwick [NBC's Sunset Beach] (Wily); Jennifer Jones (Arleen); Cecilia d'Entremont (Mrs. Schmidt)
Status: Principal photography completed early June, 1999
Genre: Comedy, 1/2 present day, 1/2 set in 1939
Plot: An elderly widower (Willie McKee) and his buddy Vic drive from Boston to the suburban town Willie left 60 years ago in search of Willie's long-lost love.   These old geezers haven't left Boston since the end of World War II, and team up to find Willie's true love, toll change, coffee and someplace to pee.  As Willie puts it, they may be old, but they still feel. They still love.  A funny, touching story told with flashbacks to 1939 and two memorable characters in Willie and Vic.
Filming Locations: Mass. Turnpike toll booth; Shrewsbury Town Hall (as 1939 backlot
street); Boston waterfront; Green Line T; Quinsigamond State Park; various other locations
Behind the Scenes: This production was the first ever authorized to shut down and use a Mass Pike toll booth for location filming.
Coverage: Read an article about the making of "Geezers" in a past issue of NewEnglandFilm.com.
Contact: www.bohush.com.
(updated 6/10/99)

Gentleman (1997)
Directed by: Stephen Scaia
Starring: Bryan Shukoff, Sean Crespo, Jason Lont
Genre: Action/Comedy
Filming Locations: Massachusetts
Plot: In order to bring the evil Dr. Cyylus to justice, two college students set out in search of MetroCity's disappeared Superhero: Gentleman.
(updated 6/10/99)

Getting out of Rhode Island (2001)
Breaking Branches
Status: Complete
Director: Christian DeRezendes
Locations: Slatersville, RI
Plot: Jakob Mattison returns home only to be taken hostage in a wine cellar and used for the selfish gains of his longtime childhood friend Morgan while at a fundraiser. A fully improvised feature film about selfish human nature, the inability to leave the rut you're in, and the need to disappear when you've returned home.
Genre: dogme 95 /dramatic comedy
(Updated 1/8/04)

Ghetto Kingz (2004)
Status: Pre-production
Writer, Director, Producer: Gary Dunkel
Locations: South Florida
Plot: A young poor teenager wants to earn some money, so he decides to get into drug dealing to make some extra cash. While he becomes this big drug lord, he finds that people have gradually become his enemy, including most of the people that he screwed over in deals. Not only are his enemies starting a drug war with him, he is being hunted down by several different Bounty Hunter teams. The only way out is by doing his time in jail, and completing a drug awareness course and community service to get his life back on track!
Genre: Acton/Drama
Distributor: Contact Gary by E-Mail
Email: Drumslx1986@aol.com. 
(updated 1/19/04)

The Gift (2000)
Tabbykat Productions
Status: Available on Video
Producer: Sitaresmi Sidharta
Directed by: Sitaresmi Sidharta
Written by: Sitaresmi Sidharta
Director of Photography: Tristan Creeley
Starring: Mick Hoegen, Gail Gilmore, Danielle Didio
Genre: Drama
Filming Locations: Boston, Rhode Island
Plot: A couple faces their broken dreams with their 20th wedding anniversary.
Contact:: Sita Sidharta (617) 388-8589, Email: adesita@earthlink.net
(Added 11/1/00)  

The Girl Who Would Be Russian (2000)
Gum Spirits Productions
Status: Post-Production
Writer/Producer/Director: Jim Cole
Starring: Steve Jones, Jennifer DeDominici, John Hickson
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Filming Locations: Portland ME, Windham ME, Hollis ME
Plot: Based upon short stories by award-winning Maine author Willis Johnson, this film chronicles the lives of an aging group of Russian expatriates living in rural Maine in the late 70's.  Based on an actual Russian community in the Kennebec river valley, The Girl who would be Russian is full of comedy, drama, tragedy, and humanity.
Contact: Conquest21@hotmail.com
(Updated 9/20/00)

God Is Alone (2001)
MicroMan Pictures
Status: Pre-production
Written, Directed and Produced by: Jason Torrey
Starring: Asa Pilsbury, Jeffrey Thomas, Sherri Sewel and more to come
Filming Locations:Westboro, Milford, Mendon, Hopedale, and Beverly, MA; also Woonsocket, RI
Genre: Experimental Horror
Website:  http://www.godisalone.com
Contact: micromanpictures@hotmail.com
(Updated 01/1201)

God of Vampires (2000)
Status: Production
Director: Rob Fitz
Genre: Action/Horror
Filming Locations: Suburbs, Lowell, Salem, Danvers State Hospital, warehouse 
Plot: A professional killer, Frank Ng, had always been able to easily dispose of any intended victim to get the job done and the job was always done well. That is, until he accepts a job to take out a mysterious figure who has been involved in some disappearances of young girls. Frank finds himself in over his head, battling for his life and for his world, as he goes head to head with an ancient evil, the God of Vampires...
Behind the Scenes: They have completed filming the first section of the film and are quite happy with it and the way the make-up effects transposed to film. They were in attendance at DragonCon in Georgia at the end of June, 2000.  They are currently auditioning for the second part of filming. 
Web: http://www.godofvampires.com
Contact: Conquest21@hotmail.com
(Updated 7/19/00)

Golyadkin (2005)
Status: Seeking Distribution
Director/writer/producer: Ti Alan Chase
Genre: Drama
Filming Locations: Portsmouth, NH, Barrington, NH, Newburyport, MA
Starring: Adam LaFramboise, Ti Alan Chase, Richard Barron
Contact: 1-603-674-1174
(Updated 2/02/06)

Good Will Hunting (1997)

Status: Released on December 25, 1997; Academy Award winner
Miramax Films/Buena Vista
Directed by: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck
Budget: $10 million
Filming Locations: South Boston, MIT, Bow & Arrow Pub, The Tasty in Cambridge, Boston’s Public Garden, Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square
Coverage: read a review of Good Will Hunting in a past issue of NewEnglandFilm.com
Purchase: Buy a copy of this film at BuyIndies.com.
(updated 6/10/99)
 
The Good Man's Sin (1999)
Status: Complete
Dragonfire Entertainment
Directed by: Peter Sullivan
Starring: Richard Clark, Steven Kozlowski, Alexandra Boylan, Tony Spano
Filming Locations: Boston and Massachusetts
Plot: A reformed thief must choose between the new life that he has for himself, and the life of his estranged son, who needs his help with a robbery.
Watch: http://www.shortbuzz.com/films/sin.html 
Contact: peterwcp@aol.com
(Updated 7/28/00)

Goofjuice (2001)
Coastline productions
Status: Complete
Written, Produced and Directed by: Paul Anderson
Starring: Mike Riley/Terri Riley
Locations: Quincy Mass
Plot: Dad with bad attitude sees his last day when family involed in witchcraft gives him his dues.
Genre: Black Comedy
Contact: Paulruth2000@msn.com
(Updated 4/9/99)

Gorilla in the City (2000)
Flounder Productions
Status: Seeking Distribution
Written by/ Producer: Jeff Badger
Directed by: Flounder Productions
Starring: Jeff Badger, James Colghan
Locations: New York City
Plot: A naive gorilla finds getting a job in the big city isn't as easy as he thought.
Genre: Comedy
Behind the Scenes: Gorilla in the City was filmed in New York, but producer, writer and star Jeff Badger lives in Portland, Maine. Editor and Cinematographer Tim Barlett lives in Vermont. Jeff Badger is currently working on funding for Gorilla At Sea, to be filmed in Maine.
Contact: jbadger@pair.com
Contact Website: www.reddcow.com
(Updated 7/23/01)

Green (2000)

Green Monster Films
Status: Available On Video
Written/Directed by: Marc Powers
Produced by: Marc Powers and Desarae Powers
Plot: Two lifelong friends start a counterfeiting ring and they soon find out that "money changes everything."
Locations: Boston, Concord and Winchester,  MA
Genre: Drama/Crime Drama
Contact: gmfilms@hotmail.com  
Purchase: Buy a copy of this film at BuyIndies.com
(Updated 01/16/01)

Greater Southbridge (2001)
aka: Legends of Southbridge
Status: Post-Production
Written/Directed by: Rod Murphy Jr.
Produced by: Gina Buscaglia
Locations: Southbridge, MA
Plot: Greater Southbridge dissects a small New England town, one peculiar resident at a time. Through interviews with a group of intriguing, often overlooked street characters, Greater Southbridge gives candid insight into the folks we see everyday in small town America. In a series of topical segments, offbeat answers are juxtaposed with allegedly "normal" ones in a rapid fire and oftentimes comical manner.
Genre: Documentary
Contact: greatersouthbridge@hotmail.com 
(Updated 11/29/01)

Greetings from Missile Street (2001)
Joe Public Films
Status: Available on Video
Directed by: Tom Jackson
Plot: In the summer of 2000, members of Voices in the Wilderness, a campaign to stop the economic sanctions against Iraq, committed an act of civil disobedience. Facing up to twelve years in jail and fines in excess of one-million dollars, the delegates went to live in Basra, Iraq with families who survive on the U.N. Oil for Food Program rations. Delegates experienced first hand the hardships Iraqi families face due to the economic sanctions imposed against their country.  Has screened at the "Flickerings" Film Festival, Seattle Underground FF, Vermont International FF, Visualized Film Festival in Denver, and it has aired extensively on Free Speech TV, a DISH Network satellite TV channel. Website: www.joepublicfilms.com 
Genre: Documentary
Contact: coffeeanon@yahoo.com 

Groupies (1997)
Status: Post Production
Directed by: Keith Spiegel
Starring: Ally Sheedy, Jason David Frank, Brian O’Halloran, Justin Henry
Filming Locations: Vermont
Budget: $125,000
(Updated 12/01/97)

The Gypsy Years (2000)
Velveteen Films
Status: Screening at film festivals
Directed by: Rebecca Bagley
Produced by: Courtney Williams
Plot: Katherine Moss, aka "MOSSY", is one of a few who left the working class town of Wiley, Massachusetts in order to pursue a higher education. Four years later and now graduated, she must come home to Wiley and rediscover who she really is, and where she might be going. Mossy reunites with her three best friends, one a fisherman, one a do-gooder, and one an on again off again love, all of whom are experiencing the height of what it means to leave youth and family behind in order to start new lives as responsible young adults- all of whom are making their way through their own Gypsy Years, trying to find independence, and hoping to find their futures and happiness waiting and ready on the other side. 
Website: http://www.velveteenfilms.com/gypsy.html 
Behind-the-Scenes: "The Gypsy Years," Velveteen Films' and Rebecca Bagley's debut feature film, has been accepted into 4 film festivals to date: 
The Melbourne International Film Festival, Melbourne, FL, Sept. 2000
FirstGlance LA Film & Video Festival, LA, Nov. 14-17, 2000
The Jamerican International Film & Music Festival, Jamaica, Nov. 15-19
AngelCiti Film & Music Market, Raleigh Studios, Hollywood, Feb. 8-18, 2001
Website: http://www.velveteenfilms.com/
(Updated 11/10/00)

Harrison Macauley is Going to Kill Me (2002)
Orange Pictures
Status: Post-Production
Written/Directed/Produced by: Byron Livernois
Starring: Paul Dimilla Stu Clemons Teresa Huang Brian Allen Rob Masabny
Plot: An art student makes a film about his psychotic friend.
Filming Locations: Providence/Pawtucket/Boston
Genre: Dark Comedy 
Website: www.theorangeroom.com 
(Updated 7/28/00)

Harvard Man (2001)

Kushner-Locke Co.
Status: In Production; Tentative Release Summer 2001
Directed by: James Toback
Plot: One of Harvard's star basketball players (Grenier) becomes obsessed with a fast lifestyle of drugs and gambling that puts him in conflict with both the Mafia and the FBI.
Filming Locations: Boston and Cambridge, MA; Canada
(Updated 7/28/00)

The Habit (2000)
Status: Pre-prod., Principal Dec.27-Jan.3,1999
Directed by: Tracey Glynn
Format: Digi-Beta Video Short
Starring: Steven Spacek (Thin Red Line, Blast From the Past), Gary Cherone (VanHalen, Extreme, JC Superstar), Nuno Bettencourt (Extreme), Annie Gwathme (The
Sisters Rosensweig, NY), Shae Kennedy (NY Theatre).
Music: Nuno Bettencourt, Gary Cherone, John Prezziosa, and various local Boston artists.
Plot: The Habit is based on a true story about a nun who steps up to decipher an opinion from a voice, a calling from a choice, life from nonlife.   Shunned and losing sight of her faith, she treads the streets of New England, fighting to keep believing that what she's doing is right not righteous; to find comfort in her convictions when all is lost - not excluding the confidence of her best friend, Father Roonie, who simultaneously realizes that he's in love with her, that he's always been in love with her, that without her the church is barren.
Contact: TGlynn6696@aol.com
(Updated 12/6/99)

Healthy Men (2000)
Healthy Productions
Status: Pre-production
Written and Directed by: Ben Spiegelman
Produced by: Maire Elliott/Justin McIntosh
Starring: Het Haudenwurst
Filming Locations: Undetermined
Plot: This is a story of a young woman (Prudence) living at the turn of the century, who is diagnosed with schizophrenia and committed to a new mental hospital. Prudence feels that she has been wrongfully committed and must prove her sanity. Over the course of the film, it becomes cleear that both her family as well as the doctors at the mental institution have "issues" of their own. Prudence finds redemption among a traveling circus, where differences are accepted and celebrated.
Genre: Experimental
Contact: (877) 569-8466, healthymen@ureach.com
(Updated 11/21/00)

Heist (2004)
H2Films
Writer, Director: Hans Hartman
Producer: Marc Bucksath & Hans Hartman
Starring: John Kosik, Ken Nesbit & David Blum
Plot: Norman has to make a delivery for his drug dealing Landlord Frank. Darren just drove him. When the briefcase of drugs is short by one bag, the trouble really begins. Murder, betrayal and lies are the order of the day when someone is setup for a heist.
Genre: Crime/Drama
Website: www.h2films.net. 
Contact: Info@H2Films.net. 
(Updated 3/5/04)

Henry Hill (1999)

Status: Complete
Directed by: David Kantar
Starring: Moira Kelly, Jaime Harrold
Filming Locations: Maine
Plot: A young artists flees New York City for his home in Maine to rediscover his muse.
Web site: http://www.henryhill.net/ 
Contact: dgk@henryhill.net 
(Updated 7/28/00)

High Art, Low Lives (1999)
Status: In Production
The Studio Poets
Written and Directed by: Peter Nourjian
Filming Locations: Rhode Island
Plot: How far will artists go to perfect their art?
(Updated 7/28/00)

Home Before Dark (1997)
Status: Sold the foreign rights to the film and co-won the Grand Prize at this year's Hamptons International Film Festival; Lifetime bought National Rights, will air on cable starting in May 1999
Hazelwood Films with Scout Productions
Directed by: Maureen Foley
Starring: Katherine Ross, Patricia Kalember, Stephanie Castellarin
Directed by: Maureen Foley
Filming Locations: Waltham, Newton, and Boston's Hyde Park
Plot: 12 year old Nora lives in a small town with her nervous mother Dolores. Her three siblings died in a car crash before she was born, and mother attempted suicide. Nora first moves away from her mother to leave with her cold aunt Rose and later returns home to help her father Martin to raise her younger siblings.
Coverage: Read a review of "Home Before Dark" in a past issue of NewEnglandFilm.com.
(Updated 1/31/99)

Home Before Winter (2004)
SAS Productions
Writer, Director, Producer: Preston & Caleb Heller
Locations: New Hampshire (various)
Genre: Documentary
Contact: jaizon@hotmail.com. 
(Updated 1/8/04)

Home Free: Return of the Bald Eagle (1985)

Status: Available on Video
Company: The New Film Company, Inc.
Produced by: Massachusetts Audubon Society
Directed by: Christopher G. Knight
Starring: Jack Swedberg
Filming Locations: Quabbin Reservoir; Manitoba, Canada
Plot: Inspiring story of the bald eagle's return to Massachusetts.
Genre: Documentary
Website: www.xensei.com/users/newfilm 
Contact: Joyce Zinno
The New Film Company, Inc.
7 Scott Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
800/462-2306; 617/520-5005
E-MAIL: newfilmco@aol.com 
(Updated:  5/16/02)

How to French Kiss (2001)
Status: Available on Video
Directed by: Michael Cane
Starring: several new actors
Genre: Documentary
Directed by: Maureen Foley
Filming Locations: Boston
Contact: RedJelieBean@yahoo.com. See website at www.kissing.com
(Updated 7/3/01)

The Horse Whisperer (1998)

Status: Released in May 1998
Touchstone Pictures
Directed by: Robert Redford
Written by: Nicholas Evnas (novel), Eric Roth and Richard LaGravenese
Distributed by: Buena Vista Films
Starring: Dianne Wiest, Chris Cooper, Sam Neill, Robert Redford, Kristin Scott Thomas
Filming Locations: some scenes in Connecticut
Genre: Romance/Adventure
Awards: Open Palm
Contact: www.movies.com/horsewhisperer/index.html www.movies.com/horsewhisperer/index.html www.movies.com/horsewhisperer/index.html
Plot: A teenage girl riding a horse is hit by a truck. To help heal her troubled/injured daughter and horse, the mother takes them to Montana to recuperate at the ranch of a 'horse whisperer', a horse healer of mystical talents. The mother proceeds to fall in love with him, as well.
Purchase: Buy a copy of this film at BuyIndies.com.
(Updated 7/13/98)

Humpty Dumpty Land (2001)
Status: Complete
Company: Dutch Angle Films
Director: James Holland
Writer: James Holland
Producer: James Holland
Starring: Marin de Charette, Shanth Enjeti, Danielle Devine, and Tyler Perry.
Locations: Rhode Island, Newport, Cranston, Providence.
Plot: An AWOL soldier hides underground while and endless war rages above. Experimental filmmaking collides with the art of storytelling in this bold cinematic challenge.
Genre: Sci-fi/Experi. Narrative
Website: www.dutchanglefilms.com 
Contact: james@dutchanglefilms.com 

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