Starring Michael Jai White - Mike Starr - Jude Moran - Aida Turturro - Jack Forcinito with Sally Kirkland and Christopher Lloyd

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Arthur Herring (Mike Starr) is the mayor, priest and mortician in a small town called Cardinal. His brother Vincent Herring (Jude Moran) is his right hand man and together they are well-respected pillars of the community. Arthur and Vincent agreed to safe guard a small fortune of rare coins for a friend, Lloyd Mickey (Christopher Lloyd) another mortician and convicted felon. When released Lloyd wants his coins back but the brothers have other plans. Just as the brothers think they are in the clear, a tenacious detective, Orlando Hudson (Michael Jai White), comes into town to investigate the town’s first murder in 30 years, in this twisted crime mystery that is BASED ON A TRUE STORY.

Aspect Ratio Production Country Run Time Sound Exhibition Format Max Resolution 2:39:1 USA/CANADA 106min 5.1, Stereo DCP (2k) 4K DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

At the root of any good film is the story. When asked by an investor what characters and their unsettling truths give the film an authenticity that film will be my first feature I had no choice but to summon my best makes for a more visceral and emotional experience for viewers. elevator pitch for Making a Killing. This was one of the most interesting The actual events that were documented from the confessions and sworn stories I had ever come across. The investor agreed and we began testimony were written in the small-town papers for anyone to find. developing this story into a feature film in May of 2016. Those articles along with personal accounts from co-writer Jamie Pelz This story took place in a very small Colorado mountain community. If and myself paved a clear path for the screenplay. It called for re working you don’t live there or read the small-town gazette for the southern the setting and characters to make the story digestible and coherent as Colorado region, you probably haven’t heard about it. After watching well as protect the identities of the survivors of this ordeal. this film and hearing this story, you’re going to wonder why you haven’t While we worked on the screenplay, the criminal trials continued and heard about this before. more evidence was brought to light. What we are left with is the only When the opportunity to make my first feature presented itself I knew theatrical portrayal of one of Americas undiscovered best true-crime this was the story that needed to be told. I also had an uncommon mysteries. Within a classic Americana theme, modern taboo insight because I knew the key people involved but more importantly I relationships are explored, leaving you with questions about the people knew why it was buried in the small-town papers - because of its truly you thought you knew and trusted. unnerving nature and its complicated twists and turns. Upon wrapping principal photography, the final trial verdict corroborated The message I’d like to communicate with Making a Killing is that the bits and pieces of evidence we based the screen play on. While this something this dark can provide light for people hiding behind their true film is riddled with greed and deceit, it’s about love, change, and how selves. With my personal insights into this story and these people’s the truth can set you free. We walk around every day taking for granted lives, unique on screen characters were created that hadn't been seen what we have, sometimes it takes losing everything to realize what is before in other films. This is what I think was so appealing for veteran important. - DH actors like Christopher Lloyd and Sally Kirkland. The compelling Conversation with the Director

How were you introduced to this story? In 2006 at the age of 19, I wound up in a small Colorado mountain town with a random job painting a Funeral Home. The two morticians that owned the business and property treated me with open arms and I soon realized that they owned a lot more than the newly painted funeral home. In their possession were several homes, shops, a fleet of cars, trucks and collectibles. Along with the funeral home/mortuary/crematory, the brothers owned and operated a small church, restaurant, and guitar shop. They were both deacons at a local church, and one of them was a city council member that later became the Mayor. The brothers were known as true philanthropists in the small community and were well respected; nobody questioned them. Soon after meeting the morticians, I began writing a short film called Shiny Things that was based on two morticians that discovered secrets inside of a local mans body during an autopsy. Needless to say I found the morticians to be very interesting character studies and did exactly that, at a distance for many years.

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I understand the morticians story evolved over time, can you tell me more about that? In 2012, the brothers were accused of murdering an old man who was a mortician in the next town over and a convicted pedophile. It was discovered that the brothers held on to a small fortune of rare coins for this man while he was serving time in the local penitentiary. Soon after he was released from prison, he was found shot execution style in his home and the brothers were known to be at his home the day he was murdered. One of the brothers actually died of heart failure just as the state investigators had enough evidence to bring him in formally. His brother ,who ended up not being his brother at all ,wound up being the only one left and was eventually convicted of being an accessory to first degree murder.

Is that when you started to write Making a Killing? Since I left the town, my film school roommate, writer Jamie Pelz, remained there after finding it to be a great place to write and meet interesting characters. Naturally, we started writing a screenplay based on the events surrounding the brothers story. He was able to fill in details that I missed and together we started putting the pieces together to tell our version of this small town murder. We felt compelled to tell this story that unfolded in front of us and kept working on the script for a few years as the story and court cases developed.

How were you able to find investment for this film, being that this is your first feature film and where was it produced? While living in Hawaii in 2016, I met a man to help bring this story to the screen. Bruce Robinson and I met on a lava rock beach in Kona, Hawaii. He asked me if I had any ideas for my first feature film, and I told him the story I had been working on about the small town morticians, the suspected murder they were wrapped up in, and my connection to the story. Bruce was blown away by everything; both the fact that it was real and that I knew the people involved. Because the trial was still in progress, Bruce was able to read all of the articles written in the small town papers and was so intrigued by the story he wanted to be a part of the journey to make the film. Bruce signed on and development began immediately in Hawaii. Later we moved to Colorado for pre-production then to New Mexico for principal photography and back Hawaii for post production. We had a crew of 43 and shot for 27 days in the small town of Las Vegas, New Mexico. We ran a smooth production and fabulous relationships were formed between cast and crew.

©CANAMPAC3,LLC Michael Jai White Michael Jai White first garnered audience and critical attention with his portrayal of controversial boxing giant in the HBO special, Tyson. With more than two decades of experience as a martial artist, he holds a black belt in six styles and over 26 titles, including U.S. Open, North American Open, and New England Grand Champion. His well-honed skills have been employed to choreograph complex stunts in films such as On Deadly Ground. In addition to Tyson, his feature credits include , in which he played the title character based on the Todd McFarlane comic books, 2 Days in the Valley, Breakfast of Champions with Bruce Willis, Thick As Thieves with Alec Baldwin, Universal Solder: The Return with Jean Claude van Damme, Exit Wounds with and Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill. Television credits include the CW’s Arrow, the NBC movie Mutiny, based on factual events during World War II in which he played the lead character. The film was directed by Kevin Hooks and produced by Morgan Freeman. He also appeared in the TNT original movie Freedom Song, starring and executive produced by Danny Glover; and episodes of NYBD Blue, JAG, , and Renegade. He has starred in Undisputed 2, Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, the box office smash ’s Why Did I Get Married 1 & 2, and , which Michael wrote and co-produced. He also directed and starred in the remake, Never Back Down 2, which he is followed up by directing and starring in Never Back Down 3: No Surrender. Michael can be seen in the animated Black Dynamite on Adult Swim and For Better or Worse on OWN, which just finished up its 5th season. He recently starred in Vigilante Diaries, Cops & Robbers, and Making A Killing. Michael is currently filming Accident Man with Scott Adkins, Ray Stevenson, David ©CANAMPAC3,LLC Paymer and Ashley Greene.

White was born in and as a pre-teen was relocated to Bridgeport, . At age 14, he was mostly on his own; and at six feet tall and weighing in at 190 lbs, he was easily mistaken for an adult. Having started karate lessons at age eight, he was a black belt by age 12, and later taught karate at the local YMCA in Bridgeport. He graduated high school with honors and went on to college without a clear idea of the direction he wanted to steer his life. He jumped from university to university (UCONN, S.C.S.U.) and major to major (political science, communications, engineering) while also squeezing in an acting class or two—at the HB Studios in NY, Yale University, and Howard University – but never had considered acting as a career choice. White discovered he had a gift for reaching troubled children when he taught grades five, six, and seven at a junior high school for three years. That experience is what he says is his proudest achievement. Though reluctant to follow acting, he felt he had to get it out of his system. He began auditioning for roles in nearby Manhattan. He eventually landed commercials, theater roles, and bit parts on soap operas. Faced with the difficult decision to leave teaching, he finally did so with the blessing of his students. In 1992 he moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

©CANAMPAC3,LLC Mike Starr

Mike is a veteran actor who has appeared in over 200 titles. His filmography includes Goodfellas, The Bodyguard, Ed Wood, The Black Dahlia and Dumb and Dumber. He also just completed filming the independent feature Making a Killing opposite Michael Jai White and Christopher Lloyd and Cabaret Maxime opposite Michael Imperioli. On Television, he recently guest starred on Billions, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Bones and recurred on Public Morals on TNT.

Jude Moran

Jude Moran is an award winning theater actor based out of Denver, CO. Born along the banks of the Mississippi on a small farm in rural Minnesota; he accepted a scholarship and trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. He continued his training in Los Angeles and was cast in his first film, George Hinkenloopers, The Low Life. After working with George on other projects, Jude relocated to Denver to help raise his oldest son. He is a member of Actors Equity and has worked on Denver stages for over twenty years. Some highlights included The Motherfucker with the Hat, K2, and Lobby Hero. Jude will be starring in two other films in the coming year, the rock ‘n’ roll comedy, Stadium Anthems and the Sci-fi thriller, Collider.

©CANAMPAC3,LLC Jack Forcinito

Jack is a Stage, Screen, and TV actor having amassed a number of credits in such films and TV shows as NYPD Blue, (with David Caruso), The District (w/ Craig T. Nelson), Bitter Vengeance (w/ Virginia Madsen and Bruce Greenwood) Mutant Species (w/ Denise Crosby, Powers Boothe, and Wilford Brimley), Night Trap (w/ Robert Davi, Mike Starr and Michael Ironside), The Last Letter (w/Grace Zabriskie, and William Forsythe), Breath of Hate (w/ Jason Mewes), Jurassic City (w/Ray Wise and Robert LaSardo). He was also fortunate enough to be in such great Tennessee Williams Plays as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof the role of ’Brick, and A Street Car Named Desire the role of ‘Stanley’ opposite Priscilla Barnes, Three’s Company and The Crossing Guard fame in the role of ‘Blanche’, along with such other plays as When You Coming Back Red Ryder and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest , in the role of ‘McMurphy’, amongst many other great Plays.

Aida Turturro

Aida Turturro was born on September 25, 1962 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Deep Blue Sea, Junior and most notably in The Sopranos in which she appeared in 49 episodes from 2000-2007, earning two nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2001 and 2007. Aida recently appeared in the hit TV series Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders and Grey’s Anatomy, as well as Nurse Jackie, The Night Of and Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

©CANAMPAC3,LLC Sally Kirkland

Sally Kirkland, Best Actress Oscar Nominee, Golden Globe winner, Independent Spirit Award winner and veteran of over 200 films. Feisty, hard-working, famously liberal, with the trademark blonde hair, actress Sally Kirkland has certainly made an indelible mark on Hollywood history. Born in New York City, her mother was the fashion editor at Vogue and LIFE magazine. Sally began her career on the off-Broadway circuit and trained under Lee Strasberg. Sally Kirkland is a film, TV, and theater veteran since the 1960's and is probably best known for the film Anna, for which she garnered a Best Actress Oscar nomination and won the Best Actress Golden Globe, the Independent Spirit Award, and the LA Film Critic's Circle Award. Sally's first director in 1964 was Andy Warhol in 13 Most Beautiful Women. Her 200 films also include: The Sting,The Way We Were, Coming Apart, Cold Feet, Best of the Best, Revenge, JFK, ED TV, Bruce Almighty, Coffee Date and Archaeology of a Woman. Her new films will include Buddy Solitaire, Gnaw and The Most Hated Woman in America co-starring with Melissa Leo and Peter Fonda coming to Netflix. She was nominated for Best Actress in a TV movie by the Hollywood Foreign Press for The Haunted- A True Story. Her television credits include: guest starring on Criminal Minds, recurring on Head Case and The Simple Life. She guest starred on Resurrection Blvd, and in the TV movie, Another Woman's Husband. Sally had a recurring role on Felicity and Wasteland. She starred in the NBC movie, Brave New World. She starred in the TV movie, Song of Songs and was a series regular on the TV show Valley of the Dolls. She also starred in the TV movie, The Woman Who Loved Elvis. She played Barbara Healy on Roseanne. She starred in the TV movie, Heatwave and recurred as Tracy on Days of Our Lives. Sally is also an exhibited painter, poet, renowned acting coach and ordained minister.

©CANAMPAC3,LLC Christopher Lloyd

Christopher Lloyd began his career in theatre. He has appeared in over two hundred plays including on and off Broadway, regional and summer stock productions.For his title role in Kaspar he took home an Obie and Drama Desk award. Christopher starred in the Tony Award winning Broadway production of Mornings at Seven, directed by Dan Sullivan, as well as Twelfth Night in NY Festival’s Shakespeare in the Park, Center Stage’s Waiting for Godot, as Dalton Trumbo in the New York production of Trumbo and Caucasian Chalk Circle at Classic Stage Company with Brian Kulick directing. In 1975 Lloyd began his film career in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. This was soon followed by a two year run as Jim Ignatowski on the television series Taxi, for which Lloyd won two of his three Emmys. Lloyd won an Independent Spirit Award for his chilly depiction as a soulless murderer in Twenty Bucks. In 1992 Lloyd made Emmy history when he won Best Dramatic Actor for Disney’s Road to Avonlea. In a category dominated by series regulars, Lloyd was the first actor to win for a guest appearance. The following year, the rules were changed to include a Guest Appearance category. Lloyd has appeared in over ninety film and television productions including the Back to the Future trilogy, Things To Do In Denver when You’re Dead, Eight Men Out, Addams Family and Addams Family Values, BBC’s Dead Ahead: Exxon Valdez Disaster, The Page Master, Dennis The Menace, Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, Track 29, Clue, The Dream Team, Angels in the Outfield, Star Trek III, Goin’ South, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, My Favorite Martian, Tales of Despereaux, Snowmen, and Mike Nichols’ HBO adaptation of Wit, starring Emma Thompson. Christopher’s most recent film,I Am Not A Serial Killer, is making the rounds at the Independent Film festivals.

©CANAMPAC3,LLC Devin Hume Director, co-Writer, Producer

Devin Hume, was born November 17, 1987 and raised in a small New Jersey beach town. He is an inspired producer, writer and director. As a young man, Devin's imagination found expression through narrative drawings and still photography which ultimately became his first artistic passion. After receiving recognition for his photographs, Devin decided to pursue a degree in cinematography from a top film school. He quickly took advantage of the resources available to him to produce his own films. His student shorts received acclaim from numerous film festivals around the country and earned him several cinematography jobs before even finishing film school. Working as a cinematographer afforded Devin the opportunity to travel the world gathering stories and experience from Greece to Dubai and Oman in the middle east and South East Asia. It was there he discovered his passion for underwater cinematography and a sense of responsibility toward ocean conservation. He then moved to Hawaii where he co-founded The Love Waters, LLC, a production company promoting ocean conservation awareness through renegade science and underwater imaging. Along his journey Devin discovered he had a specific talent for directing. His unassuming nature and clarity of vision make directing films his natural calling. Devin’s reputation for equanimity on set with both cast and crew as well as an strong business acumen for running productions on time and on budget is evidence to his professionalism.

©CANAMPAC3,LLC Bruce Robinson Jamie Pelz Producer, Executive Producer Co-Writer, Producer

Bruce Robinson is an entrepreneur and an Executive Producer from Jamie Pelz was born in Charles City, Iowa and raised along Saskatchewan, Canada. He is responsible for several successful Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island. A 2002 graduate of Mount St. patents; including a solar panelled golf cart roof and a magnetic Mary’s University, he shunned a corporate career and abandoned blade system for mowers. Across Western Canada, he has built and his pursuit at being a lawyer and focused all of his ambition in sold numerous successful businesses from paving companies to filmmaking. He has since enjoyed some early success as a writer, property development companies. His company, Bruce Robinson director and producer. His first film, South Street, was the winner Project Management , finances commercial and residential of the Panavision New Filmmaker Award - the first time the mortgages, along with medical laser equipment installed in award was ever granted to anyone outside of the state of chiropractors offices and massage clinics. Now in his 50’s, Bruce has California. He is known for his work on the short films found a passion with filmmaking. He started the Shutter Speed Woebegone, Shiny Things, The Buzzard and the Beard, Pygmalion Film Company with a pair of Canadian filmmakers, and together and Responsibilities – all of which have been exhibited or they made an inspirational documentary about the struggle to quit featured in various festivals in the United States and the United smoking called 1000 Excuses. Kingdom. Pelz’s writing style offers complex characters within Of all of his accomplishments, it is argued that his greatest what is normally a typical situation. He tends to abandon the triumph is his ability to make something out of nothing. He has a basic structure to movies that is rigid and reductive and explores reputation for being a smart investor and helping others to achieve the world outside of the core relationships that are normally their goals. shown between a protagonist and an antagonist. A broadly appealing social consciousness emerges in his work, showing interest and concern with regional cultures and values and offering a true depiction and reality that provokes his audience’s active attention and consideration. Pelz has also worked on Seth Tonk various programming for Discovery Channel, National Producer/Colorist Geographic, History Channel and Travel Channel.

Seth Tonk, a Chicago native, entered the film industry after the completion of his enlistment in the U.S. Navy, and attending film school in Colorado. As a working industry professional based out of Los Angeles, he has soaked in every bit of knowledge and experience he can while working in Production Management on television shows produced by CBS, FOX, and MTV among others. He recently completed his duties as the 1st Assistant Director on the feature film Her Side of the Bed which has premiered in Los Angeles, and prior to joining the Making a Killing Team, he worked in the Assistant Director Unit on Lucha Underground, Executive Produced by Robert Rodriguez, and airing on the El Rey network. ©CANAMPAC3,LLC Per Cinematographer

Per (Peter) Wigand is an Emmy award winning cinematographer based out of Denver, CO. Per was born and raised in Graz, Austria. His grandmother was a composer and his family was always heavily involved in music and musical education. This strong connection to music formed an early appreciation and passion for arts in general. In addition to playing instruments and composing music on the piano, one of his first hobbies was making videos which developed into his love for film and cinematography. After working in the art department on several features in Austria, he decided to come to the U.S. to study cinematography and graduated with eight awards for his work, including two cinematography awards out of five nominations. His first Jhene Chase feature film debut as Director of Photography, the sci-fi Production Designer action film Dust of War (Doug Jones, Tony Todd), premiered at Comic Con, San Diego. Since then he worked on Jhene Chase has served as a production designer on many productions including award winning short numerous feature and short films. Working as a films, national commercials for companies such as Kia, production designer has allowed her to help Smash Burger and Charter Communications and full length filmmakers get to the heart of their stories through feature films including Dust of War, War Pigs (Mickey sets, wardrobe, props, color, and texture. Jhene also Rourke, Dolph Lundgren) and Tater Tot & Patton. Today he possesses significant experience as an art director, set lives with his wife and three children in Colorado and works as an independent cinematographer all over the country. decorator, costume designer, and set dresser. She He also serves as an adjunct instructor for camera and attended Colorado Film School and spent several lighting at the Colorado Film School, one of the top film summers there as an instructor for junior high school schools in the nation. children at the school's film camp.

©CANAMPAC3,LLC Peter G Adams Composer

Peter G. Adams is an ASCAP Award winning composer living in Los Angeles. He composed music for the television shows Cold Case (CBS), Close To Home (CBS), Blue Bloods (CBS) and Star Wars Detours (Lucasfilm/Disney). He also contributed to major motion picture scores like Megamind (Dreamworks) and the Oscar-nominated score for the film Rango (Paramount). More recently, he helped write the BAFTA winning score for Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft) with Cliff Martinez. And he just wrapped the score for Soaked In Bleach (Valiant), a film about the death of Kurt Cobain.

Robert Mason Farish Editor /Associate Producer

Robert Farish broke into the broadcast business at the age of 17 and soon became operations director at a local cable TV station in South Carolina. He has worked his way through just about every phase of the production process including editing, writing, shooting, directing, producing, even voiceover and on-camera talent. Robert and his wife Regina own Farish Media, Inc – a full service production house based in Kailua Kona, Hawaii. Together they have created and produced documentary and short films, national television series, and a wide range of content. Dave Goetter Sound Designer

Dave is known for cutting edge composition, mixing and the use of technology for speed and efficiency. Dave started out in the industry as a guitarist for bands and artists. He then moved into full-time sessions, recording, producing and mixing on hundreds of songs and live records. Dave was also a bandleader for artists. In 2013 Dave and his family decided to make the move to Kona, Hawaii, and join up with a collective of content creators, headed up by film director and entrepreneur David L. Cunningham. The team is comprised of producers, directors, visual effects artists, DP’s, actors, stunt actors, grips, techs, and many other personnel and departments that facilitate and execute the creation of multimedia.

©CANAMPAC3,LLC (in order of appearance ) Cast and Crew Arthur Herring Mike Starr Vincent Herring Jude Moran Director/Producer Devin Hume Mrs. Alarie Alaina Warren Zachary Written by Jamie Pelz and Devin Hume Lloyd Mickey Christopher Lloyd Executive Producers Bruce Robinson Jesse Julian Bonfiglio Brian & Linda Obrigewitsch Butterfly Elmer "Butterfly" Garcia Dirk Doval “Coyote” Jim David Midthunder Cheryl Robinson "Hatchet Head" Brian McGill Producers Bruce Robinson Connie Aida Turturro Waitress Laramie Cooley Seth Tonk Dolores Sally Kirkland Jamie Pelz Ron Tait Fletcher Associate Producers Curt Bergman Pool Player Jesse Montoya Luke Schuetzle Burly Guy Jesse James Montoya Mason & Regina Farish Greg Broomfield Andy Kastelic Abbey Koshak Wes Thomas Wingate Cinematographer Per Chief Markel Joe Berryman Editor Rober Mason Farish Orlando Hudson Michael Jai White Officer #1 Travis Armstrong Production Designer Jhene Chase Officer #2 Nathaniel Auguston Casting Directors Dea Vise, CSA and Billy DaMota, CSA Jean-Anne Jesi Rael-Mondagaren Local NM Casting Midthunder Casting Chief Riley Jack Forcinito Composer Peter G Adams Bartender Ron Weisberg Sound Designer Dave Goetter Waitress #2 Kristin Berg Production Coordinator Abbey Koshak Guy at Bar JD Havenstar Co -Producer Vincent Gonzalez Coroner Esodie Geiger-Mavstrand Stunt Coordinator Bobby Burns Mr. Newsham Dwight Torres

Sam Pernivue James Cady Photography by Abbey Koshak Greg's Mother Catherine Haun Greg's Father Paul Blott

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