DTLA LIFE MAG #18 | JUNE 2015 | Page 67

SPLIT END directed by Edward Shieh (USA) Tachie is young, single, and bored with her social life. She even considers turning blonde. But when Tachie caters a party for a beautiful couple, she finds the charismatic husband uninhibited and also looking for something new. SPLIT END’s director, Edward Shieh, was nominated for a 2015 FOX Global Directors Fellowship and is also a screenwriter with the WGA East and Digital Caucus. SPLIT END stars Christiane Seidel, known for her role on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire and her upcoming mystery-thriller, The Hollow, produced by Oscar nominated, Lisa Bruce (Theory of Everything). The cast also includes Brennan Taylor (Broad City, The Amazing Spiderman 2) and Brazilian-Japanese actress, Tatiana Sachie-Toshimitsu (Kiss Me, I’m English). DEATH OF A GOVERNMENT CLERK directed by Mykyta Samusiev (USA) Based on a short by Anton Chekhov, DEATH OF A GOVERNMENT CLERK is an exaggerated stylized satire set in 19th Century Russia. The film tells the story of a common man who finds himself overtaken by his insecurities and paranoia after a social faux pas leads him on a path of self-destruction that threatens his very life. The short features Michael Ark (Angels and Demons, A Good Day to Die Hard) and Mo Anouti (The Young and the Restless) and is directed by Mykyta Samusiev and produced by Alex Lampsos (Thylacine.) Composer, Sergei Stern, won Best Original Score for Time Out of Mind. Samusiev says, “Raised in a family where life was perceived as a tragic comedy, I’ve grown up seeing the humor in the petty incidents of daily life, where people often reveal their true faces. It is in the same vein that I was inspired to make an adaptation of this short story by Anton Chekov, a testament to his ability to give life to such moments, a commentary on human nature.” THE STOMACH directed by Ben Steiner (UK) Frank’s (Simon Meacock from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest) had enough. A spirit medium whose unique and grotesque method of channeling the dead is