To add a film to this section, please fill out our Add a Title form.  Updates should be emailed to classifieds@newenglandfilm.com.  If you are looking to track down a title for purchase, BuyIndies.com may be able to find it for you -- fill out their request form.

The ID Project Revisited (2001)
Tp Productions
Status: Complete
Directed by: Tyler Purcell
Written by: Alexey Mohr/Caleb Hodes
Produced by: Tyler Purcell
Starring: Caleb Hodes/Jamie Ford/Richard Carlton
Filming Locations: Wellesley, MA
Plot: A Mockumentary about a film never completed. The story of a mystical world where nobody can escape from sounded good, but after long arguments and huge production set-backs the film was not finished. A decision was made by the production team to make a documentary about the making of the film, but instead of it being truthful, we decided to make it a comedy!
Genre: Documentary
Website: www.tpproductionfilms.com
Contact: Tyler Purcell at email: purcell@mediaone.net
(Updated 4/20/01)

I Love My Movie (1999)

Status: Screening in March 1999
Directed by: Hilary Weisman
Genre: Mocumentary
Plot: "I Love My Movie" tells the story of Hilary Weisman, a desperate filmmaker who steals a camera in order to make a movie. Shot in the guise of a documentary, Hilary and her friends travel cross-country in order to sell the stolen camera in the Mexican black market to raise post-production money.
Coverage: Read an interview with Hilary Weisman in a past issue of NewEnglandFilm.com.
(Updated 1/31/99)

I Love You to Death (2000)
Status: Post-production
Written by: Ted Page
Produced by: Fred & Ted Entertainment
Directed by: Fred Surr
Plot: Sherry Wingtight, a motor-mouth, coupon-clipping woman from Rhode Island, is so obsessed with bargain-hunting that she hasn't noticed that her husband, Al, has been dead for the last five years. After recovering from the shock - and flush with Al's life-insurance cash - Sherry takes him to a swank resort where she finds new and ever more creative ways to make money off his sorry ass.
Contact: Fred Surr, 617-236-7577
Web site: http://www.fredandted.com/ 
(Updated 12/10/99)

Icebreaker (2000)
Edgewood Studios
Status: Complete; on video
Directed by: David Giancola
Filming Locations: Vermont
Web Site: http://www.edgewoodstudios.com
(Updated 7/28/00)

The Ice Storm (1997)

Status: Released on September 26, 1997
20^th Century Fox
Directed by: Ang Lee
Starring: Kevin Kline, Courtney Peldon, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver
Filming Locations: New Canaan, Connecticut
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Plot: Post-Thanksgiving 1973, it looks like things can't get much worse for the Hoods -- father on a drinking binge, mother devouring self-help books, etc. Then, the worst ice storm in a century hits. Things do get worse...
Purchase: Buy a copy of the film at BuyIndies.com.
 
In My Father's Church (2000)
Directed by: Charissa King
Status: In Production
Genre: Documentary
Plot: Although United Methodist policy unequivocally states that gay unions can not take place in Methodist churches, Methodist pastors have been defying the order of the greater church by marrying gay couples.  Filmmaker Charissa King documents the broader struggle in the United Methodist Church, while she plans a wedding with her partner Kelly and meditates over the relationship with her father, a Methodist pastor. 
Contact: Charissa King at P.O. Box 415 Boston, MA 02117, 617-929-1890 or charissaking@hotmail.com
(updated on 8/10/00)

In the Bedroom (2001)

Good Machine
Status: In Production; Shooting June-July 2000
Directed by: Todd Field
Written by: Andre Dubus and Robert Festinger 
Starring: Tom Wilkinson, Sissy Spacek, Nick Stahl
Filming Locations: Maine
updated on 7/28/00)

Indiscretion (2005)
Outta Left Field Productions
Status: Pre-production
Directed by: Ivan Velez
Written By: Ivan Velez
Producer: Anthony Colon
Starring: Elizabeth Ann Kelly, Timm Wims, Chris Wood
Filming Locations: Hartford, CT
Genre: Drama
Plot: "INDISCRETION" is an existential morality tale of past wrongs exposed and old scars reopened by a tragic event, filled with raw emotion and redemption. Twelve-year old Sophia can only dream of a normal childhood but instead endures a bleak one, with the constant battering at the hands of her mother. In a cry for help, she ties a message to a balloon and releases it from her bedroom window. Unbeknownst to Sophia, her innocuous act creates a catalyst that sets off a series of events affecting the lives of many. It's an interwoven story that explores the
dire consequences and impact our indiscretions can have beyond our own worlds and how interconnected our lives really are.
Website: www.indiscretionthemovie.com.  
Contact: Anthony Colon (860)833-0256 acolon@olffilms.com. 
Other: Visit us at: www.olffilms.com. 
(Updated 6/07/05)

Inquisition (2000)
+Random Foo+ Pictures & Pangea Films
Status: Post-Production
Directed by: C.C. Chapman
Written By: Garth Franklin
Starring: Cassie Ross, Dan Gorgone and Steve Sherrick
Filming Locations: Malden, Mass
Genre: Thriller
Plot: Krieger (played by Steve Sherrick) is a devoted man to his faith. But, on the eve of the new millenium evil walks the earth and it is up to him to discover who this "necrophin" is and stop them before they wreak their havok on mankind.
Website: http://www.randomfoo.com/rumors/inquisition.htm 
Contact: Random Foo Pictures, 265 Lexington Street, Watertown, MA 02472, email: cc@randomfoo.com 
(Updated 7/28/00)

Into My Sickness (2000)

MicroMan Pictures & Virpis Entertainment
Status: Complete
Producers: Jason Torrey & Jessica Teixeira
Director: Jason Torrey
Written By: Jason Torrey (story), Jeffrey Thomas (screenplay)
Starring: Jeffrey Thomas, Karen Brzezowski, Kevin Ward, & Meredith Plaxco
Genre: Psychological Horror
Filming Locations: Mendon, Franklin, & Bellingham, MA
Behind the Scenes: Jeffery Thomas has just had a compilation of his short stories
published by The Ministry of Whimsey Press called "Punktown" that will be available this summer.  
Purchase: Buy a copy of the film at BuyIndies.com.
(Updated on 7/28/00)
 

Into the Black (2004)
Green Monster Films
Status: Available on Video 
Directed, written by: Marc Powers
Produced by: Mario Colucci
Starring: Paul Sacks, Tim Gato, Sheila Guzman
Genre: Thriller
Plot: Neil Murphy (Paul Sacks) returns to his hometown, after an eight year absence, to attend the wake of his best friend Danny Sherman (Zach Nightingale). However Neil doesn't quite receive such a warm welcome on his return as he is led to believe his friend was murdered. With the help of Danny's sister Lisa (Sheila Guzman) and her friend Roger (Tim Gato) Neil may soon uncover the mystery surrounding his friend's death. But as the answers unfold before him will he be ready to deal with the events of their past?  Or will he just wish it stayed buried? 
Filming Locations: Maine and Mass.
Web Site: www.GreenMonsterFilms.com. 
Contact: (Updated 2/02/06)

Into the Eye of the Storm aka Leaving Scars (1996)
Basic Pictures
Status: Complete; on video 
Directed by: Brad Jacques
Written and Produced by: Marc Johnson
Starring: Lisa Boyle
Genre: Thriller
Plot: When an old friend is brutally murdered, a case of mistaken identity pushes Diane Calson and her unlikely accomplice Michael Taylor, into a dangerous web of drug money, pornography, and high stakes prostitution. Before long, Diane and Michael are caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse, taking them on a rocket ride through the lurid underbelly of Los Angeles after dark. The suspense threatens to boil over as Diane and Michael fight to outmaneuver the killers and bring them to justice in a lethal game where no one takes prisoners and very few come out alive.
Filming Locations: Boston
Web Site: http://www.tgila.com/basix/
(Updated 7/28/00)

Ironman (2000)
Status: In release worldwide, and US home video
Director: Douglas Kennett
Cast: Douglas Kennett, Bernard Fox, Tim Rossovich, Teri Thompson, Alica Anne, Stefan Reudnicki, Don Oldacowski, Kip Cooper
Crew: DP: Peter Bonilla, 1ST AD: Shawn Griffith
Genre: Sports Drama
Plot: After his dreams of pro baseball are dashed, David Stuart struggles to find himself. He is torn between two women, pushed by two mentors, and eventually . . . driven by one dream.
Production Company: Tone Entertainment, 58A Route 113, Silver Lake, NH 03875, phone: (603) 367-8439, fax: (603) 367-8639
Web Site: http://www.movierights.com
(Updated 4/13/00)

Jack (2002)

Status: Production, 
Writer/Director: Thomas Nöla
Producer: Thomas Nöla & Melissey William Wright
Cast: Thomas Nöla, Dustin Rooney, Stevie Windchild Craig, Polly Eurothane, Melissey William Wright, Joseph Colbourne
Genre: Fantasy/Horror
Plot: A fall into a jack-in-the-box leads to confusion, adventure and horror. Through the use of crude puppetry and musical sequences, 'jack' treks a sinister fantasy land.
Locations: Boston - Provincetown, MA - Blue Hills Reservation, MA - Salem, MA - Plymouth, MA - Los Angeles 
Production Company: eskimo films
Contact: eskimofilms@eskimofilms.com
Web Site: http://www.eskimofilms.com 

The Jew in the Lotus (1998)
Status:  Released
Producer/Director:  Lauren Chiten
Writer:  Roger Kamenetz
Genre:  Documentary
Plot: In 1990, Tibet's Buddhist leader the Dalai Lama invited eight Jewish delegates to Dharamsala, India, to ask them, 'What is the secret of Jewish spiritual survival in exile?' 
Writer Rodger Kamenetz was there to record the historic meeting: "I'd come to Dharamsala as a skeptic. A cultural Jew, a Jew by birth. But my religion? Nervous was my religion."  Exploring one man's surprising personal journey, Laurel Chiten's documentary shows us how lessons of spiritual survival apply to a troubled individual as much as they do a to a troubled nation.
Behind-the-Scenes:  Visit the website at: http://www.itvs.org/jewinthelotus
Coverage: Read an interview with Laurel Chiten in a past issue of NewEnglandFilm.com.
(Updated 7/28/00)

JuJu (aka Trials of the Heart) (2001)
Status: Pre-production
Company: Video/Film Productions
Director: Russell J. Ramos 
Writer: Lessor Somar
Producer: Lessor Somar
Starring: local actors and actress
Locations: New Bedford/FallRiver 
Plot: City Youth looking for employment; JuJu tries different ways to hold a job in a town where the forces to be are powered by a inner circle of Politics and money.
Genre: Drama
Distributor: none
Contact: 508-979-1994 
Email: raisin39@yahoo.com
(updated 10/26/01)

Juliette of the Herbs(1998)
Mabinogion Films
Status: Available on Video
Distributed by: Home Video-Winstar, Thomas Horton Associates (TV Distributor)
Written/Directed/Produced by: Tish Streeten 
Starring: Juliette de Bairacli Levy
Genre: Documentary
Plot: Story of a world renowned herbalist, author, traveller, and the pioneer of holistic animal care.
Filming Locations: USA -MA,VT, NY, ME, MN, Spain, France, Switzerland, Portugal, Greece, England.
Website: www.julietteoftheherbs.com
Contact: Tish Streeten, PO Box 92, Spencertown, NY 12165, Tel: 518-392-4257, Email: streeten@taconic.net
(Updated 2/01/01)

The Killing Hand (2004)
Mindbeside Studios
Status:  Seeking Distribution
Director: Andrew Sniezek
Writer, Producer, and Starring: Jason Courtemanche
Locations: Haverhill, Lowell
Plot: A drifter with a dark past clashes with a local gang with dire results.
Genre: Action/Drama/Suspense
Contact: Mindbeside Studios 25 Clifford St. Lowell, MA 01851. Website: www.thekillinghand.com. 
(Updated 6/1/04)

Kingdom Rebels (2003)

Big Castle Productions
Status: Available on Video
Writer and Director: James Bernardinelli
Producer and Distributor: Big Castle Productions
Starring: Marty Allen, Jesse Farrell, Kelly McCabe, Carlton Munch
Plot: These are trying times for the Kingdom. Kingdom servants, Stan and Marty, are out to perform their daily duties of prisoner executions by means of "lethal gastration" when things go awry. Can our heroes save themselves from the Snowball army...little pink creatures who exist only to lay turds?
Genre: Animated/Comedy
Website: www.kingdomrebels.com 
Contact: info@kingdomrebels.com 
(Updated 1/9/04)

King Midas: The Movie (2000)
Status:  Post Production
Writer/Producer/Director: Brandon David Cole
Starring: Justin Gagnon
Genre:  Gangster
Plot: A modern-day gangster film based on the ancient Greek myth of "Midas and the Golden Touch."
Filming Locations: Hartford, CT; Springfield, MA
website: www.kingmidasthemovie.com
Contact: kingmidas@rcn.com
(Updated 9/27/00)

Kiss My Assassin (2002) aka: The Deadly Killer (working title)
IFMP
Status:  Post Production
Writer/Director: Steve Bennett
Producer: Steve Bennett & Heidi Tranberg
Starring: Steve Bennett, Steve Hubbard, Barry Zazlove, Tom Sage, Rich Hanna
Genre:  Kung-Fu action 
Plot: Two groups of small-time criminals encounter an extremely goofy hitman.
Filming Locations: Boston
website: www.ifmp.net 
Contact: IFMP ifmp@quik.com 

Le Femme Repertoire aka Solidarite des Femmes (2000)
Rouge Nation-State
Status: pre-production for year 2000 release
Writer/Producer: Said K. Dibinga
Starring: Deborah Martin, Claudia Jordan, Auta Lopes, Wendy Abraham, Dee Rodrigues, Marion Hall, Lonnie Farmer, Gennadiy Ravvin, Maria Valentinova,
Karen Li, Iranna Rachel, Soraya Butler, Richard Caines, Jani Rodrigues,
Simba Dibinga, Shaumba Dibinga
Genre: Action/Thriller
Casting By: Deanna Casting-LA, and Portland Models and Talent
Film Locations: Boston, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Providence (RI), Cape Verde
Plot: Female assassins are hired by a foreign government council to find and capture a quantum-nuclear engineer wanted for mass-murder, who is working for the U.S government, and living in Brookline.
Behind the Scenes A portion of Boylston Street will be destroyed on film. Web-site is in development.
(Updated 8/24/99)

The Lady Red Trio (2005)
Cosmic Control Productions
Status: Complete
Directed/ Writer: Brandon Kane
Starring: Pamela McIntyre, Edwin Perry, Kris Williams, Jeremy Banks, Jennifer Engle, Brian Van Kay
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Producer: Erin Anguish
Filming Locations: Boston, West Newton, Franklin, MA; Brooklyn CT; Providence RI
Contact: Erin Anguish erin@cosmiccontrol.com. 
Other: www.cosmiccontrol.com. 
(Updated 5/11/05)

Lame (2005)
ncovered Productions / Real Films
Status: Complete
Directed/ Writer: Steven D'Iorio
Starring: Kevin Cirone / Grady Justice
Genre: tense drama
Producer: Doug Lloyd / Georgia Menides / Steven D'Iorio
Filming Locations: Manchester, NH / Providence, RI / Worcester, MA
Plot: At the end of the day, both Brad and Stephan come home to find themselves stuck in the same conversation they have had over and over again...Christian women. Although Stephan is a successful writer, and Brad is an emerging painter, they still have not mastered the art of Christian girls. They enter this dating discussion through a series of flashbacks, often exaggerated and symbolic, as emotive memories tend to be. For example, they commiserate over absurd turn down lines like, “I’m waiting for God to bring a man into my life,” and, “No.”
Through their tribulations with girls like the underage church girl, short skirt temptress, and a delusional office manager who believes that she is 105 years old, the men’s genuine insecurities and confusion about women deepen. In the end, an unexpected twist erupts into surreal horror.
Contact: vjuncovered@hotmail.com. 
(Updated 3/31/05)

Last Night in Boston (1998)
Sisyphus Productions
Status: looking for financing and/ or line and executive producers
Directed by: A. T. Sayre
Starring: not yet cast
Genre: tense drama
Filming Locations: Boston
Plot: Charles and Suzy are a disfunctional couple, on a trip to Boston for the weekend. Unbeknownst to Suzy, Charles plans to murder her. The film follows them around on the last day of their trip, as they wander the streets, and centers on the dynamics of the dysfunctional relationship, to show how a couple could possibly get to the disturbing point of homicide.
Contact: A. T. Sayre, KSC Mailbox #5050,  229 Main St.,  Keene, NH 03435; Email: asayre@empire.net
(Updated 11/18/98)

Laundromat Days (2004)
Skunkophilia Productions
Status: Complete
Directed/ Writer: Simon O'Reilly
Starring: Yves O'Reilly, Simon O'Reilly, Patrick Quinn, Aimee Verret, Patrick
Dussault, Yvon Vachon, Anne-Dominique Roy, and much more
Genre: comedy/odd
Producer: Simon O'Reilly & World In One
Filming Locations: Montreal, Canada & Middlwtown, CT
Plot: The camera becomes a window into some people's lives, conversations about social ethics, absurd poetry, love, what is reality, why are we all stuck in this reserved state of mind that doesn't seem to expand, mixed with suspense and a wonderful score
Other: Simon O'Reilly (Director)'s Bio Page http://www.earthbornfilms.com/sso.htm. 
Contact: Simon O'Reilly, 21 Walnut St. Middletown, CT, 06457. 
(Updated 2/2/06)

Legend of Afterlore: Runes of Alliance (2002) aka Afterlore
Status: Post-production
Written by:/Directed by: Timothy Wong 
Producer: Iris Eu and Timothy Wong
Starring: Eric Poulsen, Laura Drown, Timothy Wong
Genre: Fantasy
Plot: Set in medieval fantasy period, the film follows 7 adventurers on a journey to defeat the source of all evil. Each character representing different reactions and responses of different cultures regarding the Sept 11th terrorist attack.
Filming Locations: Candia NH, Mass. and Vermont
Contact: areznaroque@hotmail.com 
(Updated 1/22/02)

The Life We Lead (2002) 
Status: Available on Video
Directed by: Sean Huck
Producer: Sean Huck
Location: Boston, MA
Genre: Documentary
Plot: The Life We Lead is an ongoing documentary series on punk bands in and around the Boston area. Shows feature interviews, commentary, live footage and music videos.
Contact: admin@thelifewelead.com.   857-205-1996 (cell)
Website: www.thelifewelead.com  
(Updated 5/11/05)

Lift (2001)

Hot Fries Films. Inc
Status: On Video
Directed by: Khari Streeter 
Starring: Kerry Washington
Written by: DeMane Davis 
Genre: Drama
Filming Locations: Massachusetts
Behind-the-Scenes: The script was the U.S. winner of the 1998 NHK International Filmmakers Award.
(Updated 6/24/04)

Links (1999)
Cobbco Productions
Status: Unknown.
Budget: $250,000
Producer: Michael Kuell
Director/Writer: Jen Cobb
Filming Filming Locations: Providence & Newport Rhode Island
Genre: Romantic comedy/drama
Plot: Lincoln, a young man stranded in an airport, reflects on his romantic involvement with three very different women. Lacking the ability to commit to one relationship the tables turn when all three women strike out with plans of their own that don't include Lincoln.
Contact: Michael Kuell c/o Cobbco Productions 272 Morris Ave. #3 Providence, RI 02906; mkuell@msn.com
(Updated 11/19/98)

A Little Pet Story (2001)
Status: Seeking Distribution
Company: Pixeltoon
Director: Howard Kamenstky
Writer: Howard Kamentsky/Lisa Vaas
Producer: Howard Kamentsky
Locations: Somerville Ma
Plot: Two people have problems with their pets
Genre: Animation
Website: www.pixeltoon.com
Contact: 1 Fitchburg St B353, Somerville Ma, 02143

Little Shots of Happiness (1998)

Status: Complete, 1998 New England Film and Video Festival Winner
Bangor Films
Directed by: Todd Verow 
Starring: Bonnie Dickenson, Todd Verow, Linda Eknoian, Rita Gavelis
Filming Locations: Boston, Massachusetts
Genre: Comedy
Web site: http://www.bangorfilms.com
Purchase: Buy a copy of the film at BuyIndies.com.
(Updated on 6/18/98)
 
Live Ski or Die (2001)
Status: Available on Video
Company: Live Ski or Die Productions
Directed by: Angie Hansen
Writer: Angie Hansen & David Preston
Producer: Craig Geipel & David Preston
Starring: Rex Thomas, Tanner Hall, Philippe Belanger, Dave Crichton, Phil LaRose, Chris Turpin, Rob Holmes, Jamie Pierre, and many more hardcore riders
Genre: Extreme Ski & Snowboard
Plot: Wanna travel to some of the best mountains in North America? Ride with the pros? Join two local riders from the east as they encounter everything from machine guns to cadillacs. Experience the thrills of the west!
Locations: New Hampshire, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, California, Washington, & Whistler, B.C.
Contact: Live Ski or Die Productions, 1053 N. Barnstead Rd., Ctr. Barnstead, NH 03225 (603) 776-6048
Website: www.liveskiordie.com
(Added 9/02/01)

Loaded Gun: Life, and Death, and Dickinson -- (2002) aka Loaded Gun: A Search for Emily Dickinson

Status: Complete
Director/Writer: Jim Wolpaw
Producer: Steve Gentile and Jim Wolpaw
Starring: Julie Harris ("The Belle of Amherst"); U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins; painter Leslie Dill; biographer Polly Longsworth; historian Dan Lombardo
Genre: documentary
Plot: An offbeat, playful approach to the life and work of Emily Dickinson.
Locations: Boston and Amherst
Contact: Lisa Perkins, Associate Producer, 617)287-9979; lisaperkins1@attbi.com.  Steve Gentile: (617)946-9195, tinyspite@aol.com. 
(Added 4/01/02)

Look Back, Don't Look Back (1999)

Bishop Allen
Status: Complete
Directed by: Randy Bell and Justin Rice
Genre: Documentary
Plot: Two film students obsessed with Bob Dylan and Pennebaker's 'Don't Look Back' head to New York on an impossible quest.  The goal: to meet Dylan himself.
Locations: Cambridge, MA; Amerst, MA; New York, NY
Contact: 122 Kinnaird St. #2, Cambridge, MA 02139, email: rbell@post.harvard.edu
(Added 2/07/01)

Love at Your Disposal (1999)
Speed Twin Films
Status: Post-production
Written, Directed and Produced by: Paul Lombard
Filming Locations:  Connecticut
Plot: Two lonely souls  meet outside an apartment Dumpster and embark on a soul-searching mission.
Web site: http://www.speedtwinfilms.com/
Contact: 27 Church Hill Rd., Glastonbury, CT 06033, Phone 860-633-9585; president@speedtwinfilms.com
(Updated on 7/28/00)

The Love Letter (1999)

Status: Post-Production; Release Spring '99
Dreamworks SKG
Starring: Kate Capshaw, Tom Selleck, Ellen DeGeneres and Blythe Danner
Filming Locations: Rockport, Massachusetts
Plot: Story about the owner of a book store in the mythical town of Loblolly-by-the-Sea.
Coverage: Read a review of "The Love Letter" by NewEnglandFilm.com.
(Updated 1/31/99)
 
Love Noir (1997)
Status: Distributed to cast and crew in November 1997.
General Films
Produced by: Michael Christian
Starring: Dave Lombard, Michelle Laffan, Dora Tavel, Colin Hoffmeister
Plot: A young woman pleads with her boyfriend to murder the man who raped her.
Contact: http://www.kissing.com/film.html

Macbeth (1998)
Directed by: Cillín Perera 
Filming Locations: Harvard University, Cambridge and Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Genre: Drama
(updated 7/13/98)

Macbeth aka: William Shakespeare's Macbeth (2001)
South Main Street Productions
Status:  In Production
Written by: William Shakespeare - Adapted by Richard Griffin
Directed by: Richard Griffin
Produced by: Annette Kennedy, Nigel Gore and Richard Griffin
Genre: Drama/Horror
Plot: A modern telling of Shakespeare's classic tragedy, using all the original text.
Locations: Newport, Jamestown, Providence, Narragansett, South Kingstown, RI
Cast: Nigel Gore, Kate Lohman, Jim O'Brien, Josh Willis, Chris Perrotti, Rudy Sanda, Jim Bray, Sam Babbitt, John Capalbo, Christopher Pierson, Annette Kennedy, Raven Latourneau and Hope Pilkington.
Distributor: Currently Searching
Contact: Richard Griffin: rgriffin2@home.com
Website: www.macbeth2001.8m.com
 (Added 01/03/01)

Marla Clowne Wakes Up (2000)
Status:  In development by Sensory Overload Pictures
Produced by:  Jason Sirotin and Jimmy Tilt
Medium:  35mm film
Filming Locations:  Massachusetts
Contact:  jimmytilt@hotmail.com
(updated 6/15/00)

Mars Hill 04758 (2001)
DiBacco Films
Status:  Complete
Writer: Ralph Wayne DiBacco
Produced by:  DiBacco Films
Starring: Tom Urb
Plot:  Anthology of the psychodrama nature
Genre: Psychodrama
Filming Locations:  Maine
Website: www.dibaccofilms.com
Contact: filmaker@ime.net
(added 4/1/02)

The Matchmaker (2000)

Status: Released on October 3, 1997; on video
Working Title Films
Directed by: Mark Joffe
Starring: Denis Leary, Janeane Garofalo
Filming Locations: Fanueil Hall; Cottonwood Cafe; One Ashburton Place, Harbor Tours – Boston, Massachusetts
(updated 6/15/00)

Mayhem Motel (2001)
Disturbance Fillms
Status: Complete - Available on Video
Written/Directed by: Karl Kempter
Starring: Matt Biancaniello, Lorene Scafaria, Sara Berkowitz
Filming Locations:  Connecticut, New Jersey, California
Plot: Bizarre and Horrific events take place in the course of one night in an average motel. Everything from shooting to stabbing to vomiting to spanking. Shot on film. Reviewed by joebob-briggs.com, Askewreviews.com, buried.com. 
Genre: Horror/Fetish
Web site: www.disturbancefilms.com 
Contact: karl@disturbancefilms.com 

MDM A Short Film (2002)
Status: Pre-production
Company: Plebeian Entertainment
Director: Andrew Wellington
Writer: Andrew Wellington
Producer: Raoul Duke
Starring: Indie actors + actress, Katie Gaal
Locations: Waterbury, Southbury, Danbury, Boston
Plot: A man enters into his subconscious and must combat his ID and super ego, in a struggle for complete mental dominance.
Genre: Suspense
Distributor: Fear of Freedom
Contact: 1-203-264-3619
Email: andrewwellington@hotmail.com 
(Added 05/23/02)

Measure by Measure (1999)
St. Joseph Film
Status: Seeking Distribution
Written by: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Neil McGarry
Producer: Matthew Reid, Victoria Fitch, and Neil McGarry
Filming Locations:  Orleans, Boston, Cambridge
Contact: NeilMcgarry@hotmail.com 

Meet Joe Black (1998)

Status: Released November 1998
Directed by: Martin Brest
Produced by: Universal City Studios Productions, Inc.
Written by: Bo Goldman, Ron Osborne
Starring: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani
Executive Producer: Ron Schwary
Filming Locations: Warwick, Rhode Island
Genre: Black Comedy, Romance
Contact: www.meetjoeblack.com/
Plot: An otherworldly creature befriends a wealthy man and falls in love with his daughter in this remake of Death Takes a Holiday.
Behind-the-Scenes: A mini courtroom drama evolved out of one sleepless Warwick, Rhode Island resident’s complaints that the night-time filming and fireworks disturbed him and his family. Perhaps due to a delirium caused by lack of sleep, this RI resident thought $50,000 ought to settle the score. No such luck, but what they did get was a free hotel room away from the noise on the nights of filming.
Coverage: Read a review in a past issue of NewEnglandFilm.
(Updated 11/1/98)

Mere Formality (2002)
Status: Pre-Production
Company: Shadow Pictures
Produced by: Jennifer White
Directed by: Maxim Kovalsky
Starring: Adam Rosencrance
Filming Locations: Peddock's Island, Robert Treat Paine House
Plot:The film portrays the state of Man existing in an atmosphere of spiritual vacuum. It explores the self-destructive impulses that naturally follow from the conviction that life in all its manifestations has lost a transcendent meaning.
Genre: Drama
Website: www.shadowpictures.org 
Contact: jenny@shadowpictures.org  
(Updated:  5/16/02)

Message in a Bottle (1999)

Status: Release in February 1999
Warner Bros.
Directed by: Luis Mandoki 
Starring: Kevin Costner, Illeana Douglas, Jesse James, Paul Newman, John Savage, Robin Wright
Written by: Gerald Di Pego and Nicholas Sparks
Produced by: Denise Di Novi David V. Lester 
Genre: Romance
Coverage: Read a review in a past issue of NewEnglandFilm.com.
(Updated 1/31/99)
 
Messiah (2000)
Status: Post Production
Produced by: Poverti Productions
Directed by: K.M. Fitzgerald. Cheryl Friberg, Production Assistant/Assistant Director
Written by: Dan Parziale & K.M. Fitzgerald
Starring: Daniel Parziale, John Cox, Cieran Crawford, Morgan Alexander, Michael Peluso, Gerry Martinez, Cheryl Finlayson, Barry Boykins, Wally Chang,  David Goldberg, Tambre Tarlton, Bob Knox, John Stackpole, Brian McCoy, Gonzalo Donoso, Bill Holman, Joyce Rich, Shelley Back, and a cast of many  more. 
Music Composed and Performed By: Martijn De Man of The Netherlands  
Filming Locations: Downtown Boston, Dorchester, Roxbury, MA 
Story: Adaptation of the Gospels. Aunt Kathryn & Uncle John need to get the, now grown, nephews and nieces back on track of being good. Kathryn writes the story after being bothered by all the bad news and seeing the kids so selfish and self-centered. During an Easter party dinner in her home, she forces the kids to listen, putting them into specific roles as they 'imagine' the story. Some listen, some learn, and some could care less. But it did change a few to the error of their ways. Behind-the-Scenes: "Messiah" is in editing with a wonderful editor, Dale Andrews, from Toronto.  Music score and performance done by Adriel Prager of AzureMusic.
Contact: Kathy Fitzgerald, Poverti Productions, 617-288-6468, or write to Poverti Productions at PO Box 135, Boston, MA 02122
(Updated 4/13/00)

A Midwife's Tale (1998)
Status: On video
Directed by: Richard P. Rogers 
Written by: Laurie Kahn-Leavitt and Laurel Ulrich
Starring: Kaiulani Lee,  Laurel Ulrich
Plot: Mixing filmed interviews with dramatic re-enactments, A Midwife's Tale presents Laurel Ulrich's process of discovery about Martha Ballard, the wife of a surveyor who moved to rural Maine, became something like the local doctor, lost three of her children to an epidemic, and over two decades watched her career dissipate, as male physicians and "modern medicine" slowly usurped the domain of the midwife
Behind-the Scenes:  The film was the opening show of the tenth season of the PBS series "The American Experience" (January 1988).  It screened in theaters all over NWanderweg Productions England before that and was seen at film festivals nationally and internationally.  Video copies (for educational and home use) can be ordered from PBS Video (tel. 800-344-3337 or from www.pbs.org)
Coverage: Read a review of "A Midwife's Tale" in a past issue of NewEnglandFilm.com.
(Updated 8/12/99)

Milo aka: Street Musician Documentary (2004)
Wanderweg Productions
Status: Post-Production
Director and Producer: Rob Wilson
Writer: Rob Wilson/Milo Matthews
Starring: Milo Matthews
Locations: MBTA subways, Seattle, Boston
Plot: A moving documentary that questions the drives we have to follow our heart around the time of the recent MBTA ban on subway amplification. Milo Matthews, a talented bassist and real subway musician, opens his life and his history to the audience with charisma and talent. 
Genre: Documentary
Distributor: seeking
(updated 1/12/04)

Monster on Campus (2000)

Marathon Studios
Status:On Video
Genre: Horror
Writer/Director/Producer: Robert Franz
Starring: David C. Bryant
Filming Locations: Woburn and Dracut MA
Plot: Modern day horror. A scientist experiments with a advanced form of steroid with disasterous results.
Contact: Robert Franz: rfranz@mediaone.net
(Updated 9/27/00)

Monument Ave aka Talk of the Town, Snitch or Noose (1998)

Status: Released in Fall '98, on video
Directed by: Ted Demme
Starring: Denis Leary, Ian Hart
Filming Locations: Boston, Charlestown, East Boston and Chelsea, Massachusetts
Genre: Drama
Plot: Bobby O'Grady is a low range member of Boston Irish gang run by Jackie O'Hara. Jackie demands absolute, total loyalty for him. When Jackie kills one of Bobby's buddies, Teddy, Bobby and others have to keep it an absolute secret, even from their and Teddy's relatives.
Coverage: Read a review in a past issue of NewEnglandFilm.com.
Purchase: Buy a copy of it at BuyIndies.com.
(Updated 1/31/99)
 
Moonlight Serenade (1998)
Status: December 1998 Release
Blue Duck Pictures
Directed by: Stephen Scaia
Starring: Elizabeth Uhl, Paul Levy
Filming Locations: Boston, Beverly, Wareham, Buzzard's Bay - all in MA.
Plot: Set during WWII - A woman deals with her bomber-pilot husband's death and the secrets she has kept from him.
(Updated 12/01/98)

The Most Dangerous Game (2001)

Status: Complete
Director: Michael Denis and Boris Masis
Writer: Richard Connell
Producer: Michael Denis and Boris Masis
Starring: Michael Denis, Nate Grondin, Nick Grondin, Michael Lang
Locations: Durham, NH Boston, MA
Plot: A car-wrecked man finds himself in the hands of a bored and hunter.
Genre: Action/Drama
Website: http://thegame.borism.net 
Contact: boris@borism.net  mdenis@mediaone.net 
Other: The full 35 minute film is available on the web as is behind the scenes footage and information.

The Mouse aka Upper Cut (1996)
Early Morning Films
Status: Complete
Directed by: Daniel Adams
Starring: John Savage, Angelica Torn
Filming Locations: Harwich, Cape Cod
(Updated 7/28/00)

Moving Targets (1998)
Status: Premiered Nov. '98 in VT
Directed by: David Giancola
Plot: A high-profile NY lawyer is murdered, leaving his wife to make a startling discovery about her husband and become a target herself.
Behind-the-Scenes: Interestingly, "Moving Targets" was filmed entirely in Vermont, but set in New York. Now, there’s a new twist for you…
Coverage: Read an interview with filmmaker David Giancola in a past issue of NewEnglandFilm.com.
(Updated 1/31/99)

Mud Season (1999)

Hobnail Pictures
Status: In Slamdance 1999
Directed by: Anthony Hall
Cinematographer: Rob Lewbel
Production Coordinator: Bruce Perkins
Filming Locations: interiors shot in Vermont, exteriors in San Francisco
Plot: A lone Vermont woodsman commits an accidental murder and finds love with the only witness, a young Chinese woman. Their fragile intimacy is threatened by the authorities, determined to find a suspect.
Contact: Hobnail Pictures, 569 N. Westbourne Dr., West Hollywood, CA 90048. You may also email rlewbel@earthlink.net
Coverage: Read an interview with some of the makers.
(Updated 1/31/99)

The Mushing Mill (2002)
Shadow Puppets Entertainment
Status: Post-Production
Genre: Comedy/Action
Directed and Written by: Joshua Gass  (story by Joshua Gass and John Nelson)
Produced by: Jeff Bower, Joshua Gass, and John Nelson
Starring: Alex Cyr, Jacob Wood, Adam Corriveau, Nicholas Cyr
Filming Locations: Bangor, Maine and Greenville, Maine
Plot: A group of neighborhood children divide into two factions and battle for supremacy of the neighborhood.
Website: www.shadowpuppetsent.com 

Mutual Admiration Society aka: Blow-by-Blow (2001)
Counterfeit Clown Productions
Status: Available on video
Genre: Dark Comedy
Directed and Written by: Satchel Underwood
Produced by: Adam M. Reed
Starring: Keith Brown, Sean Sweeny, John Joyce, Brian Allen, Mark Allard, Jason Allard, "Punch" the Clown
Filming Locations: Southern NH 
Plot: Following an eclectic band of characters and intersecting story lines over the course of one day, Mutual Admiration Society is a dark comedy focusing primarily on one young man’s inability to find clarity amongst the conflicting emotions and negative influences that permeate his mind.
Website: www.counterfeitclown.com
Contact: filmmaker@counterfeitclown.com
(603)424-5509
(603)345-0760
(Updated 4/25/02)

My Second Chin (2004)
Doiron Digital
Status: Pre-production
Writer, Director, Producer: Jeff Doiron
Starring: Alex Paul
Locations: Niantic, Connecticut
Plot: A young man deals with all the thoughts and emotions encountered on a typical date.
Genre: Comedy
Website: www.DoironDigital.com. 
Contact: (860) 303-4224 (860) 691-1675
(Updated 3/14/04)

My Uncle Joe (1991)
Coruway Film Institute
Status: Available on Video
Genre: Documentary
Directed and Produced by: W. C. Rogers
Starring: Joseph Charles Rogers
Filming Locations: Quincy, Templeton & Greater Boston
Plot: Joe Rogers is determined to live as a free man. For twenty-eight years he was in an institution, but now he's on his own.
Distributed by: Coruway Film Institute
Contact: Bill Rogers at wcrogers@coruway.mv.com or 603-436-3092 
Website: www.coruway.com
(Updated 3/21/01)

Mystic Blood: The Kindling (2004)
H2Films
Status: Pre-production
Director: Hans Hartman
Writer: Hans Hartman, Sam & Shelly Crystal
Producer: David Horgan & Hans Hartman
Locations: Mystic, CT and shore-line
Plot: An evil spirit has been raised. It wants two things, blood and revenge. now it is up to the great grandson of the man who sent him away the first time to win or loose in a fight of good verese evil.
Genre: Horror
Website: www.h2films.net
Contact: H2films P.O. Box 271 Mystic, CT 06355-0271 info@h2films.net. 
(Updated 3/5/04)

Mystic Nights and Pirate Fights (1998)
Tacamo Productions
Directed and Written by: Doug Lively
Starring: Jim Chiros, Chris Kauffmann, Jerry Kokich, Shauna Beth Mandelburg, Johnathan McClain, Mark Samburg, Thomas Torrey
Filming Locations: Mystic and Stonington, Connecticut
Genre: Adventure Mystery
Plot: Young Jonah Johnson and his family move into Mystic, CT. The town's local fisherman's son, Schooner, quickly befriends him and the two soon discover what seems to be a 300-year-old treasure map. The treasure of Captain Kidd that was lost in the town 3 decades earlier. While trying to evade the town's bullies, Jonah and Schooner keep their eye on Clive Steelway, a rich treasure-seeker, who seems to have conniving plans for the treasure and the boys.
(Updated 4/30/98)

Mystic Voices: The Story of the Pequot War (2001)
Status: In production
Producers: Charles Clemmons and Guy Perrotta
Participants: Noted authors & scholars and descendants of Native Americans and colonists who fought the War. Also, Roy Scheider, one of the narrators of the film.
Genre: Documentary
Story: It is 1635, and the English Puritan settlements at Plimouth and Massachusetts Bay Colonies have begun expanding into the rich Connecticut River. This expansion precipitated the first war between Native Americans and English settlers in northeastern America and set the stage for political and cultural domination of the region by Europeans. In 1637, English Puritan troops, with the help of Indian allies, burned the Pequot village in Mystic, killing 400-700 Pequots and breaking the tribe’s resistance. After the War, the colonists attempted to eradicate tribal identity by enslaving survivors and outlawing the name Pequot.
Location: New London County, Connecticut
Web site: http://ourworld-top.cs.com/pequotwar/index.htm
(Updated 7/28/00)

Myth of Fingerprints (1997)

Status: Released on September 19, 1997
Eureka Pictures / Good Machine
Directed by: Bart Freundlich
Starring: Noah Wyle, Hope Davis, Julianne Moore
Genre: Drama
Filming Locations: Maine
Plot: A tense Thanksgiving reunion for a motley New England family.
Coverage: read a review of Myth of Fingerprints in a past issue of NewEnglandFilm.com

PREVIOUS |  NEXT

Sponsors: