- Filmic Achievement
Infobox_Film
name=Filmic Achievement
director=Kevin Kerwin
writer=Kevin Kerwin
caption=Movie poster for "Filmic Achievement"
starring=Andrew Benator Claire Winters Matthew Lawler Dave T. Koenig Finnerty Stevens Kathryn Markey Janie Brookshire Jacqueline Sydney
producer=Kate O'Neil
Director_of_Photography :Rick Lopez
Editor :Aaron Lubarsky
Original_Score :Dennis Lewin
language=English
imdb_id=0452620 |Filmic Achievement is a mock-umentary film byKevin Kerwin andAuthentic Films . The film takes a humorous look at film school.
According to the official website of the film,UNY Film School is an intensive, selective program located in the heart of New York City. Each year, UNY awards one student the coveted Filmic Achievement Award. Buck Felty, Dean and Screenwriting professor, approached Kevin Kerwin to document the selection process for the award. Kerwin was given an all-access pass to the school and was able to examine the workings of the program at UNY: the instruction, the work, the competition, and the selection of the winner. The result is Filmic Achievement, a revealing look at film school and the equally misunderstood and passionate filmmakers of tomorrow.
According to Brian A Kovach onIMDB ,A "This is Spinal Tap" for the world of film schools, this mockumentary follows the careers of 7 film school students from their first day of film class at UNY (whose graduates work "here to Kentucky.")until one is chosen as the winner of the school's Filmic Achievement Award. We meet Delvo Christian, who desperately wishes hew were French and has 400.000 feet of undeveloped film 'gestating" in grocery bags in his apartment. In his mother's basement we meet Mike Pack who worships Quentin Tarantino but whose mother may be the real director in the family. Those are just 2 of the students overseen by faculty like Buck Felty, who becomes a little too excited by his students' film pitches, and Selway Cascade who insists that she left her ego back in her apartment and who listens to student input because, well, she is obligated to. The stereotypes are drawn broadly and the situations are absurd yet the characters and script are [frighteningly] believable. WORLD PREMIERE 29th Annual Cleveland International Film Festival.
Crew
Writer/Director
Kevin Kerwin
ProducerKate O'Neil
Director of PhotographyRick Lopez
EditorAaron Lubarsky
Original ScoreDennis Lewin
Production Sound, Jeremy Scott Frindel
Assistant Director, Cecily Kaston
1st Assistant Director, Dan Nemet-Nejat
Production Design, Greg Bunch
Additional Photography, Jae Song
Additional Sound, Alex Portugal
Assistant Editor, Brandon Park
Casting, Neil Hopkins, Saba Homayoon,Rude Mechanicals Theater Company Cast
Andrew Benator ... Delvo ChristianClaire Winters ... Constance Van HornMatthew Lawler ... Buck FeltyDave T. Koenig ... Mike PackFinnerty Steeves ... Kris SteinKathryn Markey ... Selway CascadeJanie Brookshire ... Kelly RushJacqueline Sydney ... Mrs. PackLeonard Armond Robinson ... Xavier Robert ReynoldsJoe Delafield ... Leslie StindleSkyler Sullivan ... Adrian DenleyBryonn Bain ... Larry Best, ActorMichael Chmiel ... Vincent Sage, ActorDave Gold ... Sound GuyDavid S. Gold ... DaveJohn Heinlein ... WoodcutterWendy Herlich ... Marci MartinLaKeith Hoskin ... Kevin RumpleLaurissa James ... M.J. the CinematographerMargaret Maloney ... Margie, ActorJ. Elaine Marcos ... JillJoseph R. McConnell .. Student ExtraDan O'Neil ... Dan, ActorChandra Thomas ... Candy CarmellaExternal links
* [http://www.filmicachievement.com Filmic Achievement Official Website]
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* [http://www.authenticfilms.net Authentic Films]
* [http://www.lopezfilm.com Rick Lopez Cinematpgraphy]
* [http://www.dennislewinmusic.com Dennis Lewin Music]
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