Our story is about a man, Mr. Peterson, who is dragged into a dark room and subjected to an unorthodox interrogation. His interrogator, an unusually pleasant young woman, refuses to tell him why he’s there and seems to know more about him than she’s letting on. As she plays with his head and questions the nature of his marriage, Peterson begins to doubt his own story.
This film is important to us not just because it is our final production of the semester, but because of the message we are trying to share. We ultimately hope that our film will leave you with a new perspective on fear and indecision, and how everything you do in life has consequences.
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Our Cast...
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Mr. Jacob Peterson
(Jason Garrison)
Jason Garrison is a professional actor, singer, and director living in NYC.
National Tour: Fiddler on the Roof (Fiddler).
Regional Credits: The Who's Tommy (Tommy), RENT (Mark), Sweeny Todd (Tobias), Les Miserables (Marius), Joseph...Dreamcoat (Pharoah), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Brad). He would like to thank Diana, Canon, Aryeh, and the rest of the Guilty team!
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Interrogator
(Kimberly Hirst)
Kimberly is thrilled to be a part of this brilliant cast and creative team! She lives in NYC as a professional actress, singer, dancer, and playwright.
Film credits: Editha (Editha), Distance (Sam).
National tour credits: Fiddler on the Roof (Shprintze/Chava U/S), and Wizard of Oz (Dorothy).
Regional credits: Spelling Bee (Logainne), Nine (Carle), My Fair Lady (Eliza). Thank you to Aryeh, Canon, Diana, and the rest of the Guilty team.
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Wife
(Nadia Vynnytsky)
Nadia is a professional actress, singer, and dancer living in New York City.
National/International tour credits: Bring It On: The Musical (Campbell), Legally Blonde: The Musical (Serena), Catch Me If You Can (Ensemble/Brenda U/S (perf.)), and Shrek The Musical (Baby Bear/Flutterbell U/S Gingy, Teen Fiona(perf.))
Regional credits: Smokey Joe's Cafe (Pattie), Side Show (Violet Hilton), Baby (Lizzie),Footloose (Ariel), Crazy For You (Patsy), and Hairspray (Shelley).
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Our Team...
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Let us introduce ourselves. Our team members include...
Director
Canon Brownell
Canon Brownell is a senior Emerging Media major at Ithaca College with a minor in Theater Arts. Starting as an actor, Canon has since transformed his talents into directing and filmmaking. His most recent film, “Broken Fate”, won the 2014 Golden Doorknob Film Competition at Ithaca College along with $1000. He has also worked on other films including “The Kitchen Council”, “Codename: Nightfire”, along with “Limbo” and “Cracked”, which both had the honor of being featured in the 'Best of Park’ annual screening.
Canon has spent the last two summers interning in Los Angeles for innovative media production companies. One such company is SoulPancake, a popular YouTube channel/creative agency founded by Rainn Wilson. In the future Canon hopes to continue this line of work by discovering new ways to create and distribute incredible films.
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Director
Aryeh Hoppenstein
Aryeh is a double major in Business & Communications and has been in the media production business for the past 3 years. He has worked on productions such as
Limbo, Checked Out, The Kitchen Council, and now "Guilty". Limbo, also co-directed and produced with Canon Brownell, was their first project co-produced together which can be found on the link provided. Other films such as Checked Out and the Kitchen Council are successful productions that were completed in coordination with Canon as well. Guilty will be Aryeh's final production of this semester.
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Producer
Christina Chironna
Christina has been studying media production for the past three and a half years at Ithaca College. In the spring of 2014, Christina interned at SoulPancake, a production company in Los Angeles, where she produced and edited short videos for their YouTube Channel. She also worked on the Kid President: Declaration of Awesome television show. In addition, this past summer she worked in post-production at World Wrestling Entertainment while simultaneously associate producing and assistant editing for a production company, Scheme Engine, in New York City. Being involved in so many different professional environments has expanded Christina’s skill set and has prepared her to be a very efficient and disciplined producer on this film “Guilty.”
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Producer & Writer
Diana Lee Hirst
Diana is a junior Television Radio major. She has spent the past two and a half years studying media production and screenwriting at Ithaca College’s Park School of Communication. After working on many ICTV shows since her first semester of college, Diana felt ready to take on the role of producer and wrote, produced, and directed her own show, Working Title, in Spring 2014. This is Diana’s second time collaborating with Sam Colleran, following their short film Cracked from Fall 2013.
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Writer
Sam ColleranSam has been studying screenwriting and media production in Park for the last two and a half years. In the Fall of 2013, he co-wrote the film
Cracked with Diana Hirst, and Guilty marks the second time that the two will be writing collaboratively.
Sam is currently writing, directing, and producing the ICTV show
Prerequisites, and his past projects include associate producer for ICTV's
Working Title and writer for The Kitchen Council.
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Head Editor
Mike Levien
Mike is a junior Media Production student at Ithaca College and has been working as an editor for the past six years on projects ranging from promotional videos to short films. Since his freshman year in college, he has been a teaching assistant for media production classes, edited a celebration event for the More Than Me Foundation, acted as head editor and postproduction supervisor for ICTV's
Working Title, and acted as one of the leading editors for ICTV's
Prerequisites.
Mike has also edited several student films during his time at Ithaca College including
Cracked and
The Kitchen Council. This will be Mike's third time collaborating with Canon and he cannot wait to utilize his skills in this new, technically complex film.
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By contributing to our film you will directly help us with financing and obtaining....
- Production equipment
- Actors
- Craft services
- Set design
- Makeup artist
- Transportation
- Fuel
- Sound mixing
- Overnight housing
- Special effects
- Film festival fees
What You Get
Your donations will go directly toward financing the listed expenses and in return you will get a great production with the joy of knowing you helped make it possible.
Since you will be greatly impacting our ability to make an unforgettable production, we think it's only right that we return the favor. On the right, you will see our special perks that one can receive if they decided to donate the designated amount. Our perks include: a credited thank you, a signed copy of the script, a final copy of the DVD, Associate Producer credit, and Executive Producer credit.
Our goal is to get this production film festival ready within a limited amount of time and we cannot do it without your support!
Other Ways You Can Help
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Thank you so much for your time and we hope you choose to join us on this exciting production adventure!
