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SIX FILMMAKERS MAKE SHORT FILMS ABOUT THE LIFE OF A BAR
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Paris DuRanté
Paris DuRante is a graduate of Deerfield Academy and the United States Air Force Academy. He served for 10 years and reached the rank of Captain. He has appeared in the films "Not Again!, "2 Manhattans," "digger," "Man In Polyester Suit," "Jake Gets Paid," and in the webseries "Wire." He is best know as one of the murderous DuRante Brothers in Charlie Huston's novel "Caught Stealing." His collection of erotic haiku "Hard & Black" is the number one selling book of poetry in Finland.
Rohan Sen
Rohan Sen is a writer/director/editor. He was awarded a scholarship to study physics, but after taking an undergraduate Third World Film class at UCLA, he decided to be a film director. His films have screened at film festivals across the globe. His short film SHANTI won the BEST SHORT FILM PRIZE at the 2001 Doubletake Documentary Festival. He has also edited two feature films, HOW I KILLED A SAINT and JAKE GETS PAID. HAPPY SAUCE was shot and inspired by the events and emotions during the final months of his wife's pregnancy.
Andre Morton
A Brooklyn native and former front man for New York based rock and roll band Ratchethead, Andre relocated to Oakland California in 2001. Andre then began to pursue his lifelong dream of making narrative films. In 2002 he received a STAND grant from San Francisco’s Film Arts Foundation to produce the experimental film “America Remembers” - a critique of mainstream media post 9-11. Andre has worked as director and cinematographer on a variety of documentary and narrative films including PSA’s for The American Cancer Society, and The Greater NY Hospital Association. He currently resides in Brooklyn.
James Francis Richards
James Richards has a BFA in Commercial Art and Illustration from St. John's University and a MFA in film production from New York University’s Graduate Film Program. He has directed several short films one of which, Warm Tide, starring Quentin Chestnut and Gilbert Glenn Brown, tied for first in the short film competition at the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in Oakland in 1997 and was invited to screen at the first annual Martha’s Flavor Fest in 1998. He has written for Blackfilm.com and co-created with Tish Benson the Poetry on Video series on the Urban Box Office. Currently he is on staff at the film department of New York University.
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Six filmmakers make short movies about the life of a bar.