Opening
An art opening, a real estate developer, a resolute gallery owner and a cataclysmic cyclone form the key coordinates of this dramatic film that reveals in no uncertain terms that we're not in Dorothy's Kansas any more. Martha is an emerging young painter holding her first big exhibition at a gallery in Kansas City's rapidly transforming downtown district. The city's new crop of beautiful people are all in attendance, including Martha's rival, Martha's lover and her lover's unsuspecting husband. Flirtation, gentrification and backroom development deals unfold as egos, ideals, trust and betrayal roil and burst with the tornado's unstoppable force. Directed by Rob Nilsson (Need MVFF 2005; SAMT, MVFF 2004) in collaboration with Kansas City Filmmakers, this Direct Action film, which was shot in just three days, sizzles with the gripping immediacy of real lives caught in the midst of irrevocable change. — K. Davis
Director: Rob Nilsson
Producer: Fred G. Andrews, G. Thomas Poe, PhD
Screenwriter: Rob Nilsson
Cinematographer: Chikara Motomura
Editor: Chikara Motomura
Cast: Denny Dey, Elisabeth Kirsch, Carl Helmstetter, Lauren Helmstetter, Douglas Drake
Print Source:
Citizen Cinema
1418 Fifth Street
Berkeley, CA, 94710
Tel: 408.836.9515
Email: ciro1@pacbell.net
