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Party Stories
Party Stories
Filmed: 2003,- 9 min (Note:this file is 40mb)
Directed by Jon Wolanske
Starring: James Bewley, Paul Charney, Mara Gerstein, Mitch Goldman, Abby Paige
Written by Bill Donoghue
Filmed by Michelle Dean and Ryan Junell
Edited by: Ryan Junell
Music by: Matt Small
Produced by: Marc Vogl
Bill
wrote this script sometime between 1998 and 2000 when he lived in San
Francisco, worked with KML and America's love affair with the George
Foreman grill was at its zenith. A hidden gem that failed to get into
whatever show it was he wrote it for originally Jon resurrected it and
included it in 2002's Killing My Lobster Circus of Failure.
After the run Marc and Ryan talked to Jon about filming it and the film
was shot in an afternoon in Mara's living room in the Western Addition.
Within three months of filming Mara, Mitch and Abby had all moved to
the East Coast.
There was a self-conscious attempt in the filmmaking to invoke some of the tension and atmosphere that is achieved in the film The Anniversary Party,
but regardless of how well that worked one woman who saw the sketch in
the show was overheard leaaving the theater saying: "I know people in
Marin just like that."
Party Stories has been presented at:
Microcinema/Independant Exposure 2004 Screenings at: 111 Minna - San Francisco 21 Grand - Oakland, California Chaos Studios - Colorado Springs, Colorado Cleveland Institute of Art - Cleveland, Ohio The Revival House - Providence, RI