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  • ‘The Baltimorons’ Star Liz Larsen, Dennis Boutsikaris, Zack Robidas Board ‘Play the Edge’ Crime Pic (Exclusive)

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    The Baltimorons star Liz Larsen, Dennis Boutsikaris and  Zack Robidas have nabbed lead roles in How to Rob director’s Peter Horgan next movie, Play the Edge.

    Horgan’s sophomore crime feature follows a recently demoted pizza chef who plans a Christmas Eve robbery to get back at his boss, only to win the lottery just as the armed robbers he hired are about to arrive. The holiday thriller set in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and to shoot locally, will see what happens when the chef tries to put the brakes on a crime already in motion, according to a synopsis from the producers.

    Production will center on the historic Orpheum movie theater in downtown Chatham, on the tip of Cape Cod, which includes a local Pizza Shark restaurant. The ensemble cast for Play the Edge includes Lance A. Williams, Katie Silverman and Josh Koopman.

    The indie film is produced by Becca E. Davis, Mike Hansen and Kathrene Gawel, and is executive produced by Ian Brownell, Todd Remis, Larsen and Robidas. Horgan’s debut feature How to Rob, also an indie crime movie, saw Chinaza Uche (Silo) and Koopman portray a two-man stick-up crew robbing criminals from Boston to Cape Cod. That’s before they face assassins hunting them for retribution over a past robbery.

    Larsen is repped by CESD Talent Agency, and Boutsikaris is repped by AKA Artists. Robidas is repped by Buchwald; Williams is repped by Mike Griffin at Luber Roklin Entertainment and Arise Artists; and Silverman is repped by Bonnie Shumofsky at Stewart Talent and Sherry Kayne at Rebel Creative Group.

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  • EO: Cinema’s ultimate scene-stealers

    EO: Cinema’s ultimate scene-stealers

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    Midway through the film, the donkey, having made his escape from a sanctuary and trekked through field and forest, wanders into a small Polish town. “The donkey was supposed to look at fish in a [shop window] but it looked, and it saw itself, its own reflection, and started to make a noise,” EO’s chief wrangler Agata Kordos tells BBC Culture. “That was a spontaneous reaction and was actually used in the film. Unlike a dog, which you can train to make noise on command, a donkey doesn’t do that. Sometimes you think that you’ve trained the donkey to make a noise on command, but it doesn’t work that way – he does whatever he likes.”

    Moments like this, Pick suggests, are appearing more frequently in arthouse films and are what mainstream cinema should aim for: “Animals are narrative disruptors. Unless they’re trained, unless their movements are predictable, they introduce all these things that makes cinema feel wonderful – spontaneity, unpredictability, movement, dynamism and liveliness. If the director is committed to allowing that to happen, I think that makes for a great animal film.”

    Animals taking centre stage

    Animals have been on camera since cinema’s inception, with the first filmic technology producing Eadweard Muybridge’s Horse in Motion (1878). The earliest film to star an animal actor, Rescued by Rover (1905), saw a brave dog reunite a kidnapped baby with its parents, featuring collie Blair – soon to become a household name – as the hero. “These narratives of love, loyalty and affection from animals have travelled all the way through cinema,” Dr Claire Parkinson, author of Popular Media and Animals, tells BBC Culture. “There’s this romanticised reassurance of the human-animal bond.” In his 1993 book, Picturing the Beast, Steve Baker argued that animals have stood in as symbols for a nation in war films. Think War Horse (2011), which follows a four-legged hero on the frontline, or Dog (2022), starring Channing Tatum, a sentimental story about an army hound.

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  • WE’RE NOT GOING BACK! New Pro-Choice Feature Documentary Film World Premiere Oct. 16, 2022

    WE’RE NOT GOING BACK! New Pro-Choice Feature Documentary Film World Premiere Oct. 16, 2022

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    A new film intended to get out the vote for pro-choice candidates this Roe-vember

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    Oct 5, 2022


    LOS ANGELES, October 5, 2022 (Newswire.com)
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    Torrance Productions, LLC is proud to present their new pro-choice feature documentary film for its World Premiere at the AWARENESS FILM FESTIVAL, followed by a Q&A, Sunday, Oct. 16, 4:00-6:00 p.m. PDT, at LA Live Regal Cinemas, 1000 W. Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA.

    In the wake of the SCOTUS Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe v Wade, WE’RE NOT GOING BACK! is a feature documentary that seeks to provide awareness and help educate younger generations who never had to contemplate what life is like without constitutional reproductive/abortion protections as the law of the land.   

    Topics included in the film: Pre-Roe era; origins of Roe v Wade legislation; religious, medical, rape/abuse situations; addiction; race; gender; adoption, etc. The film also touches on other rights under threat now that the right to privacy has been dismantled and includes a strong call to action to get out the vote for pro-choice candidates at all levels of government. 

    Click here for a preview of the film: WE’RE NOT GOING BACK! Trailer

    Filmmaker Pamela Torrance is thrilled to have her first documentary be a part of this year’s Awareness Film Festival in Los Angeles with both an in-person screening and online platform for accessibility in red (and blue) states beginning on Oct. 16.  Just in time for the Roe-vember election. 

    Pamela will also participate in the Changing the World One Vote at a Time panel discussion earlier in the day on the 16th at 11:00 a.m. PDT.  

    For additional information and updates, please see the film’s website, WE’RE NOT GOING BACK!

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  • Pollinator Films Releases Indie Hit Comedy “The Bad Mother” Just in Time for Mother’s Day

    Pollinator Films Releases Indie Hit Comedy “The Bad Mother” Just in Time for Mother’s Day

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    Apr 27, 2016


    Hamilton, Canada, April 27, 2016 (Newswire.com)
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    ​​​​​​​​​​​​Pollinator Films today announced their dramatic comedy The Bad Mother is now available for rent, purchase and gift worldwide via Video On Demand at badmothermovie.com.

    The acclaimed film stars a real family and tells the story of Tara, a mid-30s woman who has to lean out of her career to take care of her kids. The lid of her frustration is blown off when her five-year-old son accidentally posts a private rant she wrote about her husband’s evil workplace to the Internet. Tara and her family must deal with the dizzying consequences which include drug cocktails, the humbling eye of her own mother, and a reunion with her ex-boyfriend, played by superfood “rock star” David Avocado Wolfe. 

    “I knew there was a hungry audience for this film, but there was no movie out there for them!”

    Sarah Kapoor, Writer & Star

    Teaser Trailer:  https://youtu.be/IVtLDCJD9IU

    Full Trailer:  https://youtu.be/UUfDjjLWfmA

    Clip 1: Tara’s mom informs her that she’s looking older. https://youtu.be/nkyfnQ_cljo

    Clip 2: Tara’s best friend Joan questions her sanity.  https://youtu.be/jwFdCsl_PQk

    Clip 3: Tara’s ex-boyfriend and old colleague Francis (played by David Avocado Wolfe) misses her. https://youtu.be/JwOPTZpZ_h0

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    The film about the stresses of work vs. kids has made audiences both laugh and cry, often at the same time.     

    “None of it’s true and all of it’s true,” laughs writer and star Sarah Kapoor.  “I knew there was a hungry audience for this film, but there was no movie out there for them,” says Kapoor, who literally put in her blood, sweat and tears to make the film.

    For working moms (and Dads!) and stay-at-home Moms alike, this totally relatable, yet totally fantastic Kickstarter-backed film has had audiences literally ROFL. 

    “Flowers die. And unless you’re writing the poem, cards are trash waiting to happen,” says Director / Producer David J. Fernandes who is encouraging gifting the movie to hard working moms this Mother’s Day.

    Written and starring Sarah Kapoor and her whole family, the film was co-directed and co-produced by Pollinator Films’ David J. Fernandes and Sarah Kapoor, and financed completely independently. 

    The movie has just started its film festival circuit, and has already been nominated for Best Feature, Best Actress and won Best Cinematography Prize at the Hamilton Film Festival. Audiences have loved the creative soundtrack featuring indie musicians Cobario, interwoven with powerhouses Bonnie Tyler and Doris Day. 

    Movie-goers are calling it a “must-see” and saying, “I laughed, I cried, I peed a little.” 

    TO BOOK AN INTERVIEW:

    Jenny Vásquez 
    Executive Assistant
    1-289-931-4345
    jenny@pollinatorfilms.ca

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    About Pollinator Films

    Pollinator Films Inc. is the creative collaboration between Sarah Kapoor and David J. Fernandes. They write, direct, and produce thought-provoking content. The Bad Mother is the company’s first feature film.

    The Bad Mother will have its US Premiere at the Big Island Film Festival in Hawai’i on Memorial Day Weekend, Friday, May 27, 2016 at 7pm.

    The Bad Mother will also screen as part of the Niagara Integrated Film Festival in Niagara On The Lake, Canada, June 10-19, 2016 (Date TBA).

    Source: Pollinator Films Inc.

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