ELGIN PARK
directed by Danny Yourd
(USA)
Michael Paul Smith has had a fascinating, challenging
and reclusive life. He struggled through bullying, prejudices and health issues until finding a unique way to
cope with it all. His answer: a fictional town called Elgin
Park.
Director Danny Yourd is known for his Sundance Film
Festival award winning documentary Blood Brother
(alongside director Steve Hoover) and his Tribeca Film
Festival premiere of Crocodile Gennadiy, a documentary
recently acquired by The Orchard; also on these projects,
is cinematographer John Pope, who captures Smith’s
dark inspiration for a 1950’s utopia in ELGIN PARK.
AFTER SCHOOL
directed by Sam Greisman
(USA)
Director Sam Greisman (son of actress Sally Fields),
shares fifteen year-old Jack’s (Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick from Moonrise Kingdom, The Omen) story as he is
forced to come face-to-face with his growing romantic
feelings for his best friend Danny (Dante Palminteri from
Orange is the New Black).
RYAN
directed by Holly Dorff Long
(USA)
This is the powerful true story of a sister’s (Ashley Peldon
from Guiding Light) experience when her brother, Ryan
(Byron Thames of X-Men), dies of a heroin overdose.
RYAN is the directing debut for Holly Dorff Long (Tomorrowland, Avatar); she was previously the Associate Producer on Roadkill, the Santa Barbara audience awardwinning feature film and launched the film company
Hourglass.
Producer Gwendolyn Yates Whittle is an Academy Award
nominated supervising sound editor for Avatar and Tron:
Legacy, and currently works at Skywalker Sound (Jurassic World, Tomorrowland).
Music is composed Jon Anderson (former ‘Yes’ band
member), alongside Dan Spollen and Ryan Garner. Also
starring Tricia Leigh Fisher (Rizzoli and Isles), Matthew
Labyorteaux (Bride Wars), and Moosie Drier (The Book
of Life).