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Being an accounting of the adventures of the short film Flights as it made its way through film festivals from coast to coast and even abroad, picking up the occasional award and fine review, in the hopes of attracting interest for producing the wonderful feature scripts yon director/writer has in store for the world.
Flights
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About the Director:
A survivor of the Sixties, a teacher, a river runner, a political consultant, an energy and environmental developer, a high tech serial entrepreneur, a lover of great wine, food and conversation. Currently working to produce feature script, Crawfish & Specks, a story of a farmer who finds redemption protecting his threatened way of life in the Louisiana bayous. Workshopping his play, 4x50, not 200. Flights is excerpted from his novel about the Sixties, Not Our Fathers' Dreams. Visit thezog.com to learn more.
Producer:
Robert M. Herzog, Talia Lugacy, Luke Lieberman
Music:
THIS: Neil Nathan Seth Skolnick Frank Caira Heather Wagner
Cast 1:
Alexander "Fong" Fongold: Garret Savage
Cast 2:
Albert "Meteor" Playdes: Billy Lush
Cast 3:
Jack Wolford: Michael Caveliere
Cast 4:
Lloyd Margrave: Andy Phelan
Film synopsis:
Based on an almost true but entirely surreal experience. In 1968, a college senior tries to finish his Harvard Law School Application, which would keep him from being draft bait, likely to fight in the Vietnam War. Fong and his roommates start making enormous paper airplanes, get stoned, set the planes on fire and launch them from a precarious roof. At the end of an intense, frenzied evening, a final decision propels Fong into an uncertain, potentially lethal future. Flights depicts the intense pressures of an era when ordinary rites of passage could have life and death consequences. It is a timely exploration of the impact of America at war, amidst a conflict between citizenship and morality.
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Between $100 000 and $10 000
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Festival selections:
Hamptons International Film Festival, New York; Los Angeles International Short Film Festival (LA Shorts Fest), California; Best Film Short Subject -- Cinevue International Film Competition, Florida; Ohio Independent Film Festival, Ohio; IFP Buzz Cuts sponsored by Sundance Channel, New York City; Williamstown Film Festival, Massachusetts; Le Festival Internationnal du Film de Vol Libre, France; Milwaukee International Film Festival, Wisconsin; Annapolis Film Festival, Maryland; daVinci Film and Video Festival, Oregon; Gainesville Music and Film Festival, Florida; Substream International Film Festival, Florida
Awards received:
Best Film Short Subject -- Cinevue International Film Competition, Florida
Film reviews:
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Based
on the director/writer’s novel “Not Our Father’s Dream”, this short
film captures the essence of how an ordinary evening at a Williams
College dorm in 1968 turns into a night of discovery. Bypassing savage
imagery, Herzog’s film glides into our psyches with an uncertain
quietness, reminiscent of screenwriter Robert Wise’s approach. It’s
during FLIGHTS rooftop sequence that it really takes off (pun intended).
Picturing a defining moment is no easy task, but Herzog manages to
paint a tableau of that time that rings true using little more than
paper airplanes, matches, and, of course, talent. None of Peckinpah’s
fireworks or Coppola’s sturm and drang –just an insider’s view of a time
that all-too-readily reminds us of today.<br />
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Fong, his main
character says, “Shouldn’t living be connected to what you want, not
just avoiding what you didn’t? It’s this ‘Fongosophy’ and depth beyond
the words on paper or the scenes on the screen that leave us wanting
more from this emerging filmmaker. This effervescent study of conflict
between what the writer terms citizenship and morality could not be more
timely. Herzog says that the film captures “an almost true, but
entirely surreal experience”. It’s only in the canvas of long-form that
we’ll see if Herzog lives up to his potential. FLIGHTS is featured in
the Hampton International Film Festival’s Conflict and Resolution
section and was named “best film short subject” Cinevue International
Film Competition, Florida. For more information refer to the website
www.thezog.com. </span>
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