2010 Films
The 2010 Tallahassee Film Festival offered a multitude of diverse and exciting filmmaking! In case you missed it, here's the schedule of films that played:
PRE, the first aftermath comedy |
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Show TimesAll Saints Cinema
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SynopsisOn September 1st, 2001, the ensemble, Another Urban Riff, had been performing their critically acclaimed play, MONO, on the Lower East Side of New York City for one year. Three days after the attacks on the World Trade Center, the director and actors – except for one who was missing – returned to the theatre for the first time to vote on whether it was okay to continue performing a dark comedy. PRE, the first aftermath comedy, was inspired by the days immediately after 9/ll and literally refers to the ninety minutes before a play starts. PRE is an ensemble story that follows a diverse group of young artists; packing backstage horseplay, romance, addiction, the-show-must-go-on tradition, even dream sequences and flashbacks into its 85 minutes. Inspired by New York City mythologies both pre- and post-9/11 (notably a passage from E.B. White’s Here Is New York), PRE documents the every-day-ordinary backstage traumas that are heightened by an extraordinary situation to explore fundamental truths about our humanity. In New York City, right after 9/11, mainstream entertainment had not yet resumed, so it took nerve for Another Urban Riff to perform MONO three days after the attack, but it was inspirational to be funny. The writer/director of PRE, who survived a crippling, near fatal collision following 9/11, injects the film with the same life-saving humor that helped him survive an aftermath. The film recreates the small pocket of time directly following 9/11 when all New Yorkers, and most of the world, acted as if they were part of an ensemble. Film NotesThis film screens as an Official Selection and is not in competition. The filmmakers are expected to be present afterward for a Q & A session. |
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