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Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival Hosts World Premiere of the Short Film THE GIRL NEXT DOOR Directed by Peter Mabrucco Written by Greg Carere Media contact: Peter Mabrucco (e) [email protected] (m) 416-998-8444 Screening time: 2:30 PM Saturday, September 26th Short Circuit: Tense, Tragic and Dramatic Silvercity Sudbury, 355 Barry Downe Rd, Sudbury, ON P3B 4K4 (p): (705) 521-0069 Categories: Drama, Social Issue Run time: 11 min. | Canada Available for interviews at Cinéfest: Director Peter Mabrucco Toronto. September 21, 2015. Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival has announced the world premiere of the dramatic short film, The Girl Next Door, from director Peter Mabrucco, starring Lara Jean Chorostecki (X Company, Hannibal) and written by actor/screenwriter Greg Carere. The Girl Next Door is Mabrucco’s sophomore directorial offering. Logline: When Evette moves in to a new apartment, she learns she can hear her neighbours through the wall. With the safety of their separation, she begins to obsess over their lives. The Girl Next Door is produced by Lauren MacKinlay (This Life, 19-2, Spun), Farah Merani (You Are Free, Entrain, Just A Prayer), and Peter Mabrucco with cinematography by Duraid Munajim (Zero Dark Thirty, The Hurt Locker), editing by Lindsay Allikas (Into The Forest, Empire of Dirt), production design by Deirdra Morris (Stories We Tell, Young People Fucking) and original music by Jim McGrath (Degrassi: The Next Generation, Republic of Doyle). ABOUT THE DIRECTOR Peter Mabrucco has been involved with dramatic productions since he was ten years old. Starting off as an actor on the Toronto stage, he eventually found his passion in directing at age 16 while specializing in Drama at Cardinal Carter Academy for the Arts. He attended the University of Waterloo, earning his BA in Drama and Business and then moved to the UK where he took various film internships working with producer, Richard Johns of Corona Pictures, producer of Shadow of the Vampire and Dangerous Parking, and director, Peter Howitt, (Sliding Doors, Defying Gravity, Dangerous Parking) in London. He most recently producer a segment of the feature ‘ABC's of Death 2’ with director Vincenzo Natali (Cube, Splice). ABOUT THE WRITER Greg Carere is a Toronto-born, New York-based writer and actor. Previous writing credits include the play Starfall, produced as part of the University of Waterloo's UPSTART Festival, and Voices with Theatre After Four. He spends most of his time acting in theatre and films in New York, including The Downtown Loop with Three-Legged Dog, If You Can Get To Buffalo with the Incubator Arts Project, Dead Special Crabs with Wide Eyed, and most recently Cliff with Hazard Rep, a company of which he is a founding member. The Girl Next Door is his first produced screenplay. --- Some Thoughts On The Screenplay From The Writer The Girl Next Door started its weird, twisty life as a seven-minute play, written in two hours starting somewhere around midnight, as part of a twenty-four hour play festival with the prompt "jealousy". Its earliest form followed Beth and James, a young couple in love; Evette was a violent antagonist who burst into their apartment and savaged James with a pizza box. It's gone through some changes. The Girl Next Door is Evette's story. Ultimately, she was the character everyone was most interested in investigating, and the character I had the most questions about. She's first described in the screenplay as a "junkyard dog who finally got out of the junkyard." She's a woman fundamentally at odds with the world around her; wounded, but not interested in hiding her wounds; angry, unrepentant, and desperate to find a way to live. We wanted to find out how Evette lived. How she reached out. What it would be like for her to get the slightest glimpse of a happier world, a world that she can't imagine for herself. And, even if it's only for a moment, we wanted to see her teeth. - 30 - |