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FARE WELL MISS FORTUNE-LOG LINE Nobody could break through the cool casing of Ben Harrison -- not his family, not his girlfriend, not his lifelong buddies. Nobody...except maybe a nine year old girl. FARE WELL MISS FORTUNE-PRODUCTION STATUS PICTURE STATUS: SCREENING OF FINE CUT BETA MASTER SOUND STATUS: FINAL SOUND MIX COMPLETE SHOOT FORMAT: Super 16MM GENRE: Contemporary Drama RUNNING: 90 minutes DIRECTOR: Micky Faust PRODUCERS: Todd Retallack, Andy Galler CO-PRODS: Mitchel Reichler, Alex Klymko ASSOC. PRODS: Mark Pressman, Rita Michel PRINCIPAL CAST: Shanna Dowdswell, Kelly Au Coin COMPOSER: Peter Fish (Manny & Lo) PROD.CO: FAUST SIGHT & SOUND/VIDEOGRAPHIC ENTERPRISES FILMS MOST LIKE: THE MIGHTY, LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL SEEKING: FINISHING FUNDS SCREENING: TRIBECA FILM CENTER 4/7/99 7pm (RSVP - 914-591-1925) FARE WELL MISS FORTUNE-SYNOPSIS Ben Harrison, a thirty year old associate professor and bachelor, has only himself to care for. Ever since his father died when he was a teen, Ben has been unable to break through a shield that prevents him from getting close to others. Presently he spends his days teaching a summer course entitled �Video Arts� and spends his nights playing poker and entertaining his lady friend of the moment. Terra Jansen is a young girl who lives on the wrong side of the tracks with her father, Frank. Following his wife�s death, Frank has been making ends meet by salvaging odds and ends, while Terra takes care of him at home. One morning, after dropping Terra at school, Frank collides with Ben�s car. At the hospital, Ben witnesses Frank go into cardiac arrest and die. As Ben is released, he palms a locket belonging to Terra that was found on her father. Ben visits Terra at the children�s facility where she is staying while Ms. Powell, a social worker, attempts to track down her aunt. Ben misrepresents himself as a family friend in order to return Terra�s treasured locket to her. That night, while playing poker with his three high school buddies, Terra appears at his doorstep having run away from the facility. Ben calls Ms. Powell, who persuades him to be Terra�s foster parent until the aunt is found. Racked with the guilt that he might have been the cause of the accident, he agrees. Once Ben brings Terra back to the house, his bachelor lifestyle is completely interrupted. His night out with his friends is cut frighteningly short, his girlfriend leaves him, and Terra creates a mockery of his class. Yet he feels a strong connection with the girl and seeks the advice of his poker friends on how to care for her. Brad, an angry man full of contempt, tells him to forget about her. Another friend -- a kinder, gentler friend -- Mooch tells him to try and show her a good time for the short time he has her. Ben and Terra share a fun day together doing some of the things Terra has never been fortunate enough to experience. They form a bond and Ben actually begins to share things he would never share with his girlfriend or life-long buddies. But when Terra wakes up in the middle of the night crying and asks him how he knew her parents, Ben, poker-faced, perpetuates the lie of being a friend of her parents. Eventually, Terra helps Ben come to terms with the death of his own father. However, as Ben fully opens up to her, she tells him something that pushes him back into his shell. She tells him she wants to live with him. Unsure of how to react, Ben calls Ms. Powell for help. What he doesn�t realize is Terra overhears a part of the conversation and mistakenly thinks Ben wants to get rid of her. That night, Ben and his friends play poker. Brad, feeling left out since Ben�s been preoccupied with Terra, childishly initiates a battle of words with Terra. Since she is mad at Ben, she directs her words towards him. All hell breaks loose as Ben and Terra have it out in the bedroom while the guys fight downstairs. Finally, the game breaks up -- for good. As Ben cleans up, Ms. Powell arrives claiming Terra called her. But when they go to his bedroom, they realize Terra ran away. They find her at her old house. Ben urges her to return with him, but she refuses. She runs maniacally through the house yelling at him. Ms. Powell rushes in to try and calm her down as Terra shrieks. When Ms. Powell looks to Ben for help, she sees that he has left. After learning that Terra�s father was at fault in the accident, Ben hopes to redeem himself and goes to the facility to talk to her. Terra pushes him away. She thinks that the accident was her fault, that everything is her fault, and that�s the reason nobody wants her. In an attempt to do something nice, Ben goes back to Terra�s house to collect her cherished books. While there, he discovers some unsettling secrets Terra was concealing. He finds out that the whole time he was bluffing about knowing her mother, she knew it and she bluffed right back. She knew he was lying all along. In the end, Ben does everything he can to win back her trust...only to bravely let her go. FARE WELL MISS FORTUNE-DIRECTOR�S BIO Micky Faust (DIRECTOR) was born and raised in a film family. His grandfather Sam, originally a silent film actor, founded The Camera Mart, one of the largest suppliers of motion picture equipment and production services in the world. It was at their Fox stage complex where Micky garnered his initial industry experience working on the studio staff for such films as "Kramer vs. Kramer", "Raging Bull" and "Sophie�s Choice". Micky formed his own production company, Faust Sight & Sound, in 1984, immediately upon graduating from New York University Film School. Early assignments took him and his staff from the little island of Mustique, where he shot the Racquel Welch Fitness Video, to the boardroom of AT&T, where he filmed the divestiture of the world�s largest corporation. For the last ten years, Micky has concentrated his efforts on television commercials and promotions. His reel now demonstrates a distinct flair acquired from a broad range of commercial projects. Recent campaigns include, Minolta, Polo Ralph Lauren, CompuServe, Citibank, Pfizer, Shasta and Hoechst Marion Roussel�s Allerdays Resource Center. In 1989, Micky produced his first independent feature film, "BUMS". The project was filmed in 22 days and provided great insight into cost effective film productions. "BUMS" was followed up by two additional productions, "A Killing" and "Cracking Up". Micky recently completed post production on "Fare Well Miss Fortune", his feature film directorial debut. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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WHEN TYSON MET TYRA - LOG LINE John Woo meets Romeo & Juliette. WHEN TYSON MET TYRA - PRODUCTION STATUS PICTURE STATUS: Pre-Production SHOOT FORMAT: 35MM GENRE: Urban Drama (Feature Length) DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Ralph Richardson/ LINE PRODUCER: Rita Michel CAST: �Ghost Face� of the WuTang Clan; Mia (Recording Artist) SIGNED COMPOSER: �The Rza� of the WuTang Clan FUNDING IN PLACE: $500,000 PRODUCTION BUDGET: $1,000,000 SEEKING: COMPLETION FUNDS. CONTACT: Ralph Richardson [email protected] Rita Michel [email protected] AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW: Trailer WHEN TYSON MET TYRA - SYNOPSIS �When Tyson Met Tyra�, is a raw gritty, uncompromising portrayal of two people whose accidental meeting leads to a bank robbing road adventure. Tyson is an earnest and dedicated postal worker. In a case of mistaken identity, he is attached by an undercover cop along his mail route. In his fatalistic confrontation with the officer, Tyson suffers the loss of the money needed to save his mother�s house from foreclosure and is forced to become an outlaw. Escaping the police he carjacks Tyra, a rich, sexy, rebellious high school student who becomes Tyson�s partner in crime and in love. RALPH RICHARDSON � DIRECTOR/PRODUCER Ralph Richardson is surely a new and undiscovered diamond. Having received his B.S. in Economics/Finance and on his way to Law school, he decided to try his hand at something new, filmmaking. After one try it was Hello Film, and Goodbye Law. In only a few year, Ralph Richardson has produced, directed and written the award winning and highly acclaimed experimental short film �Kharja�, and the high octane action short �Chocolate.� Currently he is developing �When Tyson Met Tyra� for a summer 1999 shoot. He is also keeping his writing skills razor sharp by lending his talents to the Comic Book industry. Ralph Richardson is the sole writer of the comic book series �Kindred Spirits� which should be out in spring �99. RITA MICHEL � LINE PRODUCER Rita Michel has worked in essentially every aspect of film and television production. In 1985 she began working for Capital Cities/ABC acquiring ten years of experience in television. She gained experience in legal administration, production management, and talent coordination from working in daytime programming. Next, she worked as a production coordinator for network news facilitating live shot coordination and satellite administration. Rita left ABC to pursue a career in film that commenced with the position of Line Producer on the feature film LOVE, LUST & MARRIAGE, which sold internationally. Rita has gone on to produce numerous film projects, including A KILLING (feature) and ESCAPE VELOCITY (short), TIME SQUARE TRANSFER (short film in post production), JOANIE & AMALIA (short film in post production); as well as two CD-Rom projects for Nickelodeon�s �Blue�s Clues�. Rita is currently in post-production with FILM FESTIVAL NEWS, a feature length digital documentary covering the state of independent film and the affect of digital technology and alternative distribution. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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CUS D�AMATO - LOG LINE | In a world without leaders, he dared to be one. In a world run by criminals, he refused to become one. In a world of heartbreak, he taught the meaning of having heart. His lessons aren�t for athletes, but rather, for all of us. CUS D�AMATO - PRODUCTION STATUS PICTURE STATUS: Pre-Production/SHOOT FORMAT: Digital/GENRE: Documentary Feature DIRECTOR: Thomas Patti/PRODUCERS: Thomas Patti, Rita Michel INTERVIEWEES (already agreed to be interviewed): World Champions-Mike Tyson, Muhammad Ali, George Forman, Sugar Ray Leonard, Floyd Patterson, Jake La Motta, Jose Torres, Carmen Basilio, Ray Mancini; Journalists-Norman Mailer, Peter Hammil, Bud Schulberg, Gay Talese, Joyce Carol Oates, Bill Gallo, Burt Sugar; Actors-Sylvestor Stallone, Burt Young, Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Harvey Kietel, Joe Pesci, Mickey Rourke; Family & Notables-Wilt Chamberlin, Camille Ewald, Arthur Mercante, Sr. AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW: Sample Reel consisting of a compilation of present day interviews conducted by the director and stock footage interviews. SEEKING: FINISHING FUNDS. CONTACT: Thomas Patti [email protected]; Rita Michel [email protected] CUS D�AMATO - SYNOPSIS Cus D�Amato taught boxing. For Cus, boxing was the ultimate metaphor, where a man�s character, not his title, would be determined. D�Amato decided to dedicate himself to the sport of boxing. He reached into the rank and file of the poor, uneducated immigrants arriving daily, for those to embody his vision of what it means to be called a fighter. Boxing was a sport which having proved popular, became the financial Mecca for the underworld of criminals and gangsters. Just like one of his fighters, Cus squared off against these forces that had legitimized themselves beneath the umbrella of the organization called the IBC, the International Boxing Club. For more than twenty years, this organization dominated every aspect of the boxing world., keeping fights and their managers in slave-like dependency to their every whim. Having met a young, unknown fighter named Floyd Patterson, Cus ascended tot he top of the boxing world, using Patterson�s heavyweight crown as a means by which to destroy the IBC. He accomplished this feat, leading Congress to disband the organization by the end of the 1950�s. Cus� rise to the tope was short lived, culminating in his being abandoned by Patterson and many others, by the lure of big money over bigger principles. Cus left the boxing world, exiling himself in the isolated mountains of upstate New York.. There he started again, opening a small gym, training young, wayward boys in need of guidance and a second chance. Waiting for a fighter to walk through his door and give him a reason to believe again�to believe in himself, in boxing and his life long philosophy that men of character are never defeated, just momentarily detained. Some time in the late 1970�s, a young man named Mike Tyson walk through Cus� door. Through the eyes of Cus� long suffering love interest, Camile Ewald, and men who watched him develop both Patterson and Tyson, we hope to pose the questions � �can a leader be made?� and �what is the affect on a fighter who loses his mentor?� THOMAS PATTI - DIRECTOR Thomas Patti is a former athlete and Golden Glove Champion. His ring experience was exceptional due to the guidance and tutelage of Cus D�Amato. Tom Patti and Mike Tyson were the last two fighters to live and train with the legendary teacher. Having lived the life of an athlete and experienced first hand the development of a champions mind and heart, Tom has an awareness that he wants to share with people that meet challenges everyday of their lives. For the past ten years, Tom has acted in movies, and plays in the United States and in Europe. He has also written several stage plays as well as sold one film project to Columbia studios based on his own life experience. RITA MICHEL � PRODUCER Rita Michel has worked in essentially every aspect of film and television production. In 1985 she began working for Capital Cities/ABC acquiring ten years of experience in television. She gained experience in legal administration, production management, and talent coordination from working in daytime programming. Next, she worked as a production coordinator for network news facilitating live shot coordination and satellite administration. Rita left ABC to pursue a career in film that commenced with the position of Line Producer on the feature film LOVE, LUST & MARRIAGE, which sold internationally. Rita has gone on to produce numerous film projects, including A KILLING (feature) and ESCAPE VELOCITY (short), TIME SQUARE TRANSFER (short film in post production), JOANIE & AMALIA (short film in post production); as well as two CD-Rom projects for Nickelodeon�s �Blue�s Clues�. Rita is currently in post-production with FILM FESTIVAL NEWS, a feature length digital documentary covering the state of independent film and the affect of digital technology and alternative distribution.
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