September 16, 2009
Welcome to our new site! As we seek distribution and enter our festival run, please keep in touch as we are looking forward to offering promo merchandise and movie art.
April 21, 2009THANK YOU to everyone who came to our movie premiere at The Charles Theatre in Baltimore last weekend. The
event was a great success and we are very appreciative of all of the help and support.
Synopsis
In the aftermath of an ambitious robbery gone wrong, three small-time criminals grapple to maintain composure and sanity. Sensuous thief, Genevieve (Jennifer Themelis), vicious thug, Edgar (Mark S. Sanders) and naive ex-con, Paul (John Kirkland) all come head to head in this staunch suspense thriller.
With their plan crumbling to pieces, Genevieve is forced to control Paul's overwhelming panic and Edgar's unpredictable violence, as they wait until morning to flee the city and the consequences of their botched crime. Themelis delivers a tour-de-force performance as Paul's aloof seductress, the brazen party-girl conning an unsuspecting Leo, and the incisive psychological foil to the malignant Edgar. Past and present collide, drawing them all to the film's shattering conclusion.
Directed by Brian Morrison, with an original screenplay by Mark S. Sanders, this suspenseful thriller blends the brooding visual tones and tense dialogue of early film-noir thrillers with the brutal language and cynical indifference of modern characters, in an unflinching story where a hero is defined merely as the lesser of two evils.
Cast and Crew
Jennifer Themelis as Genevieve Maston
Jennifer Themelis knew she wanted to be an actress the moment she was cast as Flo, the head hen, in her second grade play. She was born in Sept-Isles, Quebec but soon moved to her hometown of Baltimore, Maryland.
She attended the Bryn Mawr School for Girls and was in a number of theatre productions. She graduated from the University of Maryland in 2005 with a bachelor degree in theatre performance. There she was a member of Sketchup, the Univeristy of Maryland's only sketch comedy group, and Kreativity, a diverse theatre troupe.
In the spring of 2006 was cast in “One Down,” which marks the first lead dramatic role for Jennifer.
After the production wrapped in august of 2006, she pursued her acting and comedy career to New York City. Since that move she has won Comedy Party USA's comedy contest and has been working regularly in the New York City stand-up comedy industry.
Mark S. Sanders as Edgar Stykes (also Screenwriter and Producer)
Mark Seward Sanders was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1967, and began to write poetry and short stories at the age of fifteen. In the early 80’s he collaborated with Maryland film guru and local music legend Skizz Cyzyk on several films, including “Bad Aliens from Another Planet,” a riotous spoof of 1950’s alien invasion films, and the award winning animated short, “My Little Pickle Love Song.”
During the early 90’s he became a leading figure in the Baltimore literary scene, hosting and organizing scores of literary and multimedia events, as well as publishing a monthly, literary resource magazine called the “Punchtown Fishwrap,” which won a Baltimore’s Best award from the Baltimore City Paper in 1994. He was awarded an individual artist’s grant for poetry by the Maryland State Arts Council in 2000, and in 2005, won first place in the Baltimore City Paper’s 8th Annual Poetry Contest. His work has been published in the “Shattered Wig Review,” “The Pearl,” “UFO Magazine,” and various other newspapers and literary journals.
He has been a featured reader at Frostburg State University, Maryland Art Place, the Maryland Institute College of Art, the Martin Luther King Memorial Library, the WHFS Music Festival at RFK Stadium and numerous clubs, coffeehouses, galleries, bookstores, schools, colleges and universities in the Baltimore / Washington area.
In addition to having penned the screenplay for “One Down,” he is currently developing three other scripts, twenty odd volumes of poetry, two plays and a novel.
Brian Morrison - Director, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography
A Maryland native, Brian Morrison received a Bachelor degree in economics from St. Mary’s College of Maryland in 2004. During his collegiate tenor, he became self-taught in the up and coming non-linear editing systems, Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro.
Veering away from his college degree, Brian began his film/TV training after college while working thru various Baltimore and D.C. based production and post-production facilities. Over those few years he collected a resume including clients such as PBS, Discovery Channel and The Sundance Channel.
He has also produced many short films and music videos but “One Down” marks his first major creative endeavor.
Richard Cutting as Leo Ghant
A native New Yorker, Richard began acting in the 1970s on stage in classics such as The Alchemist by Ben Jonson and Tom Jones at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. He is continually active in stage, film, television and commercial projects. He received his B.A. in Acting/Theatre Studies from Connecticut College and is an Acting Program Graduate of the National Theater Institute.
Most recently, Richard has worked repeatedly on All My Children, and also starred in the major motion picture National Treasure 2. He recently wrapped the Indie feature The Sins of the Fathers, playing Dr. Ben Nichols, a psychiatrist investigating a woman’s descent into madness. Richard also played Ian Gallagher, the lead role in The Church, a TV series, and the lead in the Baltimore Playwrights Festival, world premiere of $40 Million, If You Want It. He has also appeared on The Wire, The FBI Files (Discovery Channel) multiple projects for The History Channel and on Psychic Witness (Discovery Channel).
His major indie film roles include The Sins of the Fathers, The Bronze Door and Macguffin (two Raymond Chandler stories), The Ward, The Sound of Traffic, and Past Perfect.
Crew
Associate Producer - Aaron Gough
Production Manager - Christopher Pavlick
Music Supervisor - Sander Marques
Sound Design - Nathan Delucca
Costume Design - Carla Jauregi
Editing and Cinematography - Brian Morrison
Camera Operators - Jonathan Dorey, Aaron Gough, and Christopher Pavlick
Score Composers - Aaron Gough, Sander Marques, and Christopher Pavlick
Production Photography and Website Design - Aaron Gough