TEN THOUSAND SAINTS

Starring Ethan Hawke, Asa Butterfield, Emily Mortimer, Julianne Nicholson, Haille Steinfeld, Emile Hirsch
Directors Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman
Screenwriters Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini
Based on the novel by Eleanor Henderson
An Archer Gray and Maven Pictures Production, in Association with Tashtego Films

Jude—named after a Beatles song by his hippie parents—spends his high school days in small-town Vermont getting high with his best friend, Teddy. Beneath Jude’s mind-numbing activities lurks a desire to reconnect with his estranged father, Les, who abandoned the family when Jude was nine. Desperate to keep her son out of trouble, Jude’s mother sends him to live with Les in New York City. In the roiling and raw East Village, Jude struggles to establish an identity within the cultural upheaval downtown and forms an unlikely surrogate family with Teddy’s straight-edge brother and a troubled, rich uptown girl.



A BIRD OF THE AIR

Starring Rachel Nichols and Jackson Hurst
Director Margaret Whitton
Screenwriter Roger Towne
Based on the novel by Joe Coomer
Produced by Steven Tabakin and Margaret Whitton
Executive Producer Warren Spector

In this delightful romantic comedy, directed by Margaret Whitton and adapted from Joe Coomer’s romantic novel The Loop, a mysterious parrot brings Fiona (Rachel Nichols) into the nighttime world of Lyman (Jackson Hurst). When a talkative parrot flies into his trailer, Lyman becomes obsessed with returning the bird to its owner, leading him to Fiona, a determined librarian who insists on helping in the search. Together the pair set off on a journey to solve a mystery from the past that leads them toward a future neither imagined.





THE MOMENT WHEN
(In development)

Screenwriter/Director: James Lapine

At a fashionable New York party hosted by a legendary literary agent, Steven meets two women - and by the end of the evening, the course of their lives for the next fifteen years is set in motion. THE MOMENT WHEN tracks the successes and failures of career, marriage, parenthood and friendship, marking those moments that may pass unnoticed but determine who we become.

James Lapine is regarded as one of the preeminent artists working in the contemporary theater and film today. Distinguished as both a writer and a director, he has been nominated for eleven Tony Awards, winning on three occasions. His work has also been recognized with six Drama Desk Awards, an Obie Award, the British Evening Standard Award, an Olivier Award and the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He has directed the films IMPROMPTU with Hugh Grant and Judy Davis, LIFE WITH MIKEY with Michael J. Fox, and EARTHLY POSSESSIONS with Susan Sarandon, as well as the television productions of INTO THE WOODS and PASSION. Mr. Lapine is perhaps best known for his Broadway collaborations as librettist and director with Stephen Sondheim: SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE, INTO THE WOODS, and PASSION.

DARK YELLOW

Directed by Glen Luchford
Screenplay by Julia Jordan
Starring John Hawkes and Melora Walters
Produced by Tatiana Kelly and Steven Tabakin
Tashtego Films/Light as a Feather/Passenger

Two lonely people spend an intense night together in a trailer home in Minnesota. It starts as a game and a flirtation, but by the break of dawn their ideas about truth and power are turned upside down in this modern film noir directed by fashion photographer Glen Luchford. Winner of the 2008 Jackson Hole Film Festival Cowboy Award.

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THE EXONERATED

Directed by Bob Balaban
Starring: Brian Dennehy, Danny Glover, Delroy Lindo,
Aidan Quinn, Susan Sarandon and David Brown, Jr.
Written by: Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen
Produced by Greg Schultz and Steven Tabakin
Court TV/@radical.media
CINE Golden Eagle Award and the ABA Silver Gavel Award

THE EXONERATED depicts the injustices brought to bear against six people who were wrongly convicted of crimes, and spent years on death row, until they were finally proven innocent. Through their tragic stories, often told with humor and hope, we witness the triumph of the human spirit over bitterness and anger. As the flaws in the justice system are exposed, THE EXONERATED calls into question the use of the death penalty in the United States.

TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES

Conceived, written and performed by Anna Deavere Smith
Directed by Marc Levin

Anna Deavere Smith's powerful one-woman/multi-voiced theater piece about the 1991 Rodney King beating, the violent aftermath of the 1992 verdict, and the lasting impact of the L.A. riots on America's conscience. Award-winning director Marc Levin weaves Smith's virtuoso stage performance with news footage and recent interviews to create an unflinching portrait of rage, sorrow, loss, and battered hope. Anna Deavere Smith transforms herself into scores of individuals -- using only their words and duplicating their speech patterns, mannerisms, dress, and attitudes -- in a mosaic set in the violent aftermath of the 1992 Rodney King trial and verdict.



BECKETT ON FILM
19 Plays. 19 Directors

The first-ever cinematic adaptations of all 19 of Samuel Beckett's plays. Jeremy Irons hosted a Beckett showcase for PBS featuring new film adaptations of seven short works performed and directed by leading names of stage and screen, including David Mamet, Harold Pinter, Anthony Minghella, Kristin Scott Thomas, Alan Rickman, and John Gielgud. And to mark the 50th anniversary of the world premiere of Beckett's best-known work, "Waiting for Godot," STAGE ON SCREEN presented a new film version directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg. Thirteen/WNET, Blue Angel Films, RTE, Channel 4, and Bord Scannán na hÉireann/The Irish Film Board.

FAR EAST

Directed by Daniel Sullivan
Written by A.R. Gurney
Starring: Lisa Emery, Michael Hayden, Bill Smitrovich
PBS/Stage on Screen

Lieutenant Watts (Hayden) arrives at an American Naval base in Yokosuka Japan in the wake of the Korean War and gets seriously involved with a beautiful Japanese girl. His Commanding Officer Captain Anderson (Smitrovich) is a grounded flier who is mourning the death of his son. The Captain’s young, independent-minded wife Julia (Emery) places herself between Sparky’s romance with the Japanese girl and the WASP value system he is trying to escape. With clever echoes of Madam Butterfly and From Here to Eternity, Gurney’s play poignantly examines America’s re-discovery of itself during the Cold War.