The Suicide Party Short will be featured at the Oakland Film Festival on April 4th in the 6-8:30 p.m. showing at the Bal Theater, 14808 East 17th Street in San Leandro. The short is very timely in light of the current concern with inequality, the loss of the middle class, and the spread of poverty in America. It tells the story of a once successful salesman about to lose everything, so he decides to hold a suicide party with the help of his friends who are struggling, too. If he can save his house and get back on his feet, he'll live; if not, he'll end it all, leading to a media frenzy and unexpected events.
Besides the Oakland Film Festival, the short has been entered into 30 other film festivals around the country with the help of one of its sponsors – United Media Productions (www.unitedmediaproductions.com), a non-profit organization devoted to providing training and support for arts and media organizations in the community. The organization will have its own film in the festival on Community Empowerment, showing on April 5th at Geoffrey's Inner Circle at 410 14th Street, in Oakland from 3-5 p.m.
The Suicide Party Short has been entered in these festivals to help create buzz for the feature film: Suicide Party: Project O, which is filming in LA in April with a director and lead actors with 30+ feature film credits. The producers are planning to enter even more festivals, and are offering contributors all kinds of perks for this help, including credits for this assistance in the feature film, VIP invites, participation in the gala suicide party featured in the film, and more. More details on the film are at www.gofundme.com/suicide-party. Also, to help those affected by the key issues in the film – inequality, the loss of the middle class, and the spread of poverty – the filmmakers will be contributing 5% of the earnings from the film to two non-profit charitable organizations dealing with these issues.
The first of the Suicide Party films, The Suicide Party: Project O is being directed by Jack Skyyler of Dear Skyyler Productions, with the lead actors Glynn Praesel and Brandon Gibson, who have together made over 30 feature films. The writer/producer is Gini Graham Scott, the founder of Changemakers Publishing and Writing, who is the author of over 50 published books with major companies and 30 books published by Changemakers Publishing, her own publishing company. She is a partner in the Publishing Connection, which helps to connect writers and filmmakers with publishers, agents, producers, and others in the film industry. She also writes books and scripts for clients and has been a guest to talk about her films and books on hundreds of radio, TV, and Internet talk shows, Good Morning America, Oprah, and CNN. Besides a PhD in Sociology from U.C. Berkeley, she has four MAs from Cal State, East Bay and is pursuing a fifth MA there in Communications.
For more information:
Jana Collins
Jones & O’Malley
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For information on writing books and scripts:
Susan Allen
Executive Assistant
Changemakers Productions
changemakersproductions16@yahoo.com
(415) 571-8282