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2 PRESS KIT CONTACT FNK Industries Phone: WEBSITE LOGLINE After 15 years two old friends they reconnect with each other for a coffee in Los Angeles. SYNOPSIS Mike and John are two old friends from a very small town in UK, Salford. They grew up together sharing the same passion for classical music and they both wanted to become great pianists. They lost contact when Mike decided to move to Los Angeles hoping to get his big break. After 18 years apart, they finally get together and meet up in Los Angeles to evaluate their current circumstances. COMPLETITION DATE: June 2012 RUNNING TIME: 10 ASPECT RATIO: 1:2.35 (scope) NEGATIVE: 35mm Fuji Eterna Vivid

3 CHARACTERS MAX BIRD-RIDNELL mike Mike has always been a dreamer. He was raised by his grandparents after losing his parents at a young age. He moved to Los Angeles when he was 20 years old, looking for success and a prosperous career as a pianist and composer but he didn t find what he was looking for. He started to work as a piano man in some small bars, hoping that an opportunity would come to play in some renowned orchestras, but this never happened. A few years passed and he got a day job as a clerk in a music store. He always kept contact with his grandmother, and he used to send her letters periodically explaining that everything was great in Los Angeles. He has a loner personality so he spends hours by himself playing piano at his house. He is somehow detached from reality since he still has the illusion of becoming a star. He has no wife, only a few friends and he doesn t talk much. He bought a small house in San Fernando Valley and he spends most of the time by himself there. He still keeps some of the awards and articles from the time he was in Salford, UK at his house. He was in love with a girl named Julia during high-school and they had a passionate relationship but they broke up when he left town. She has always had a very special place in his heart but they never kept in contact. He has never wanted to admit to himself nor to his friends that he didn t obtain the success he had hoped for. John, Julie and Mike were inseparable during high-school. Mike knows that he s not going to realize all of his dreams. He s now 40 years old. john John is an ordinary man. He grew up in a perfect family. As Mike, he wanted to become a great pianist and a composer but he didn t have the courage to leave his small town, so he was forced by his parents to go to college and find a regular job. He had a big admiration for Mike since he has always thought he was more talented than him and also had the will to leave Salford to follow his dreams. John was secretly in love with Julia while Mike and Julia were together. After Mike left, he pursued Julia and they got married. He made one his dreams come true! Nowadays, he has an ordinary life in Salford. He never left UK and this is his first time in Los Angeles. He works for a company in the automotive field as a salesman but he doesn t truly enjoy it. In fact, he s very proud of also being a music teacher since it keeps his passion for music alive. Julia and John were close to Mike s grandmother, before she passed away. She was the only person that had contact with Mike. NATHAN KERSHAW

4 T E A M bruno miotto Bruno was born and raised in Ivrea, a small town close to Turin, Italy. He graduated with a BA in Communication s Sciences from the University of Turin with a thesis in writer director Semiotic of Text on Mulholland Drive by David Lynch. From 2006 to 2008 he worked as Art Director in Advertising for International Agencies in Milan, Italy. Relocated to Los Angeles in 2008 to follow his passion for filmmaking he was recipient of the Bret Ratner Grant and he attended the New York Film Academy at the Universal Studios. While at the NYFA, he wrote and directed several short films and music videos and he was interviewed by Movie Maker Magazine as the next emerging talented Director in His works were selected to be shown at many festivals all around the world like Buffalo Film Festival, Babelgum film festival, New Filmmakers at Sunset Gower Studios and many more. He s primarily known for his 25 minutes short film The Day the Music Died, an outstanding story inspired by the trailblazing music and tragic end of Buddy Holly, a modern-day depiction whose character seeks success in a contemporary, surreal Los Angeles. andrea franchin was born in Valdobbiadene, Italy, in He was producer raised in Montebelluna (TV) and since he was a kid he showed a great interest in comic books and movies. After high school he attended the course in History and Critics of Cinema at the Padua University. Dreamer, always being inspired by great myth such as George Lucas, Ho- ward Hughes and Dino De Lurentiis, decided to leave Italy, move to Los Angeles and learn how to make movies. Here he graduated in Filmmaking at the New York Film Academy and in the firsts two years in the city he worked in more than 60 projects. Between those he produced and directed VIDOR, a short film written by Michele Marcon and based on the novel La neve se frega written by the Italian rockstar Luciano Ligabue. Afterwards, he produced While God is Watching us, which was written and directed by his friend and fellow director Stefano Cipani. In 2010, he and Stefano started the developing process for GUERRA! a feature film set during the World War I. andrew wheeler Andrew Wheeler born in 1979 and grew up in Philadelphia where he received his BFA in Film Production cinematographer from Philadelphia s University of the Arts in After graduating, he toured worldwide as a guitar player with the rock band R.A.M.B.O., visiting over forty countries while simultaneously making documentaries about his experiences. When the group disbanded, Andrew worked in Philadelphia as a set lighting technician on numerous feature films and commercials as Trasformer 2 and How do you know and he shoots his first feature film as a Director of Photography, A TIME FOR THE HEART, screened at the 2010 Comic-Con film festival. In 2010, Andrew received an MFA in Cinematography from the prestigious American Film Institute Conser- vatory in Los Angeles (one of the best film school in the world). His thesis film, THIEF, witch talk about the last days of Saddam Hussein, won a complete film finishing grant from Technicolor, two College Television Awards (Emmy s), a Student Academy Award and had its world premiere at the 2011 Newport Beach Film Festival. Andrew currently lives in Los Angeles, where he has shot a number of commercials and music videos and his first west coast feature, THE SILENT THIEF in July SHOWREEL:

5 S E T S T I L L S (From left to right) BRUNO MIOTTO - director/writer NATHAN KERSHAW - John/lead actor MAX BIRD-RIDNELL - Max/lead actor RUKMANI BACHAL - 1st assistant director ANDREA FRANCHIN - producer BRUNO MARCHINI - production manager ANDREW WHEELER - director of photography BEN KITCHENS - camera operator EDUARDO BARRAZZA - key grip RUCKMANI BACHAL - 1st assistant director

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7 COMPLETE LIST OF CREDITS CAST Mike John Julia Cook Waitress Diner client Diner client Diner client Max Bird-Ridnell Nathan Kershaw Alana Kearns-Green Tom Bickers Rina Mizuno Daniel Corrado James Keith Giovanni Nasi CREW EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Alberto Bof Bruno Miotto Martino Properzi Andrew Wheeler Directed by Produced by Cinematography by Music by Casting by Production Designed by Edited by Unit Production Manager Assistant Director Production Manager Production Coordinator Art Director Location Manager Make-up Artist Casting Assistant Production Assistants Sound Mixer/Boom Operator Camera Operator 1st Assistant Camera 2nd Assistant Camera Gaffer Best boy Electric Key Grip Grip Grip Grip Telecine Color Correction Sound Design Main Credits by Making of by Bruno Miotto Andrew Wheeler Alberto Bof Candido Cornejo Jr. Kurt Meisenbach Bruno Miotto Rukmani Bachal Bruno Marchini Mohamed Koaik Susie Mancini Thomas MacDonald Sabrina Priano Aviva Brandes Mike Shafia Mariana Campos Giovanni Nasi Sonja Mereu Layne Pavoggi Ben Kitchens Jasper Granderath Charles W. Houle Drew Johnson Donald Mckinnon Eduardo Barrazza Nick Bupp Stefano Cipani Kemuel DePaula Sean Lawrence (Deluxe) Kevin Cannon (Prehistoric Digital) Russell Gorsky Jorge Canedo Estrada Richard Peter Vega