Writer/Director Ragnar Freidank and Writer/Producer and film’s star Joanna Merlin
after winning Best Short Film Award – Big Apple Film Festival, NY.
after winning Best Short Film Award – Big Apple Film Festival, NY.
CAMPAIGN HIGHLIGHTS:
2008 | 2009 Film Festival Circuit - In Progress
2008 | 2009 Film Festival Circuit - In Progress
- WINNER “Best Short Film” Big Apple Film Festival
- WINNER “Audience Choice Award Best Short Film” Beverly Hills Hi-Def Film Festival
- SEMI FINALIST Show Off Your Shorts Film Festival
- FINALIST Washington D.C. Independent Film Festival
- OPENING NIGHT FILM International Russia's Abroad Film Festival
- IN COMPETITION Las Vegas International Film Festival
- INVITATION International Zolotoy Vityaz Film Festival, Russia
- IN COMPETITION Connecticut Film Festival
PROJECT DELIVERABLES:
Key Art, Trailer, Website, DVD Packaging, Post Card, E Blasts, Press Kit, Tailored Film Festival List, Awards Campaign, Academy Qualification, Festival Panel Discussions & Receptions, Sold Out Screenings, Industry Recognition, Distribution Campaign
SYNOPSIS:
The production is a film adaptation of Ellen Cassedy’s Award-Winning one-woman play, based on the diary of her great-aunt, Jessie Singer. Beautiful Hills of Brooklyn is a transcendent story of the human spirit, told through the ordinary, daily life of an elderly woman – strong, independent and unsentimental – the kind of life that goes on quietly among us, hidden from view, full of undiscovered riches.
Directed | Written by Ragnar Freidank
Produced | Written by and Stars Joanna Merlin
Executive Produced by Bob Balaban (Best Picture Academy Award Nomination Gosford Park)
Presented by The Michael Chekhov Assocation
Key Art, Trailer, Website, DVD Packaging, Post Card, E Blasts, Press Kit, Tailored Film Festival List, Awards Campaign, Academy Qualification, Festival Panel Discussions & Receptions, Sold Out Screenings, Industry Recognition, Distribution Campaign
SYNOPSIS:
The production is a film adaptation of Ellen Cassedy’s Award-Winning one-woman play, based on the diary of her great-aunt, Jessie Singer. Beautiful Hills of Brooklyn is a transcendent story of the human spirit, told through the ordinary, daily life of an elderly woman – strong, independent and unsentimental – the kind of life that goes on quietly among us, hidden from view, full of undiscovered riches.
Directed | Written by Ragnar Freidank
Produced | Written by and Stars Joanna Merlin
Executive Produced by Bob Balaban (Best Picture Academy Award Nomination Gosford Park)
Presented by The Michael Chekhov Assocation