1 ACCIDENCE Promo Kit 1. Poster 2. Table of Contents 3. Contact Information 4. Short Logline/Synopsis 5. Festivals 6. Guy Maddin (Director/Writer) Biography 7. Evan Johnson (Director/Writer) Biography 8. Galen Johnson (Director/Writer) Biography 9. Director’s Note 10.Ensign Broderick (Composer) Biography 11.Juliette Hagopian (Producer) Biography 2 Contact Information Distributor Shauna de Cartier Six Shooter Records Box 98038 970 Queen St E. Toronto, ON M4M 1J0 1-416-465-2459 [email protected] www.sixshooterrecords.com Producer Juliette Hagopian Julijette Inc. 56 Riverside Drive Winnipeg, MB R3T 0G2 1-204-415-3883 [email protected] www.julijette.com 3 Short Logline Every balcony is a poem, a chant -- a muscle! But whoever lives with that extra blueprint luxury of a balcony lives on the wrong side of a cross-section, on the busy, narrative-addled side of something like an ant-farm window, a brazen architectural arrangement selling cheap peeks into the naked sideshows of the quotidian -- even the grisly. Step right up! Behold! A ten story wall of solid twitching muscle! Synopsis Based on the metaphor that we are each our own victims, each of us the worst perpetrators of our own worst traumas, and each the most tireless prosecutors of the crimes we commit against ourselves, ACCIDENCE follows the nightmarish cycle of a ​ ​ man who hurls to his death a doppelganger of himself from an apartment balcony, and is then pursued by a detective who is yet another doppelganger. The perpetrator is pursued from apartment to apartment, to the homes of his parents, and of his girlfriend, flats where he seeks sanctuary from persecution. By the end of the film, the perpetrator joins his victim in death as he is hurled from the balcony by his lookalike pursuer of justice, who promptly considers himself a perp, and who is promptly dogged by yet another lookalike agent of justice. And endless loop of crime and punishment is thus established. Everyone else living in the apartment block, at least those visible out on their balconies, is also caught in their own personal loops of varying activities. We all live in loops, each of us condemned to repeat ourselves in essential ways. 4 Festivals Berlin International Film Festival - February 2018 - World Premiere Hong Kong International Film Festival - March 2018 5 Guy Maddin Director’s Biography Guy Maddin has worked as the director of twelve feature-length movies, including The Forbidden Room (2015), My Winnipeg (2007), The Saddest Music in the ​ ​ ​ World (2003). He has also mounted around the world over seventy performances of ​ ​ his films featuring live elements – orchestra, sound effects, singing and narration. Since 2011 Maddin has collaborated with Galen Johnson and Evan Johnson under the banner of Development Ltd., their Winnipeg-based filmmaking collective. He ​ currently lectures in film at Harvard University. 6 Evan Johnson Director’s Biography Evan Johnson is a writer and filmmaker living in Winnipeg with his girlfriend and son. He studied film and philosophy at the University of Manitoba and worked at Winnipeg's Rug Doctor chemical bottling plant before being discovered there by Guy Maddin. He co-directed his first feature, The Forbidden Room (2015), with Maddin, ​ ​ and has made a handful of his own short films. 7 Galen Johnson Director’s Biography Galen Johnson worked for several years in the architecture industry before working as Production De-signer, Title Designer, and Composer on The Forbidden Room ​ (2015), for which he was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for production ​ design/art direction. He has since gone on to co-direct Bring Me the Head of Tim ​ Horton (2015), the experimental short film website Seances (2016), and Vertigo ​ ​ ​ remake The Green Fog (2017) all with Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson. ​ ​ ​ ​ 8 Director’s Note A feature film in 9 minutes: A mysterious murder is observed, over and over again, from some 300m distance, as events leading up to the commission of the crime transpire over a gridwork of apartment block balconies, each containing its humdrum everyday life activities, all shot in one long continuous take from another apartment block across the way. Since the film's frame contains thirty balconies, each the frame for its own narrative, the viewer must choose which storyline to follow most closely, a choice that makes for a species of interactive filmmaking. As a result, though not one detail changes in the entirety of ACCIDENCE from viewing to viewing, the film is a ​ ​ completely different movie - for better or worse - each time it's watched. 9 Ensign Broderick Composer’s Biography With arena-sized glam and rock opera-wattage sparkle, Ensign Broderick’s dramatic, piano-driven sound gushes with the opulence and flamboyance of late 70s New Romanticism, Baroque melodrama and timeless teenage angst. A mysterious and reclusive figure, Ensign Broderick has emerged out of nowhere with a fully-formed artistic vision that is completely out of time and wholly compelling, a lavish mixture of personal secrecy and raw, naked emotion bared in song. 10 Juliette Hagopian Producer’s Biography Juliette Hagopian is the Principal Executive for Julijette inc. In over 20 years as a film producer she has shown her desire for excellence and has proven herself as a producer of note internationally. Juliette was nominated for the Canadian Media Producer Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. Juliette has produced films such as the award winning My Awkward Sexual Adventure (2012), The ​ ​ ​ Divide (2011) and the successful series “The Capture of the Green River Killer” ​ (2008). Most recently, Juliette produced Nellie Bly (2018) starring Christina Ricci ​ ​ and Judith Light. Accidence (2018) directed by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and ​ Galen Johnson, a selection into the Forum at the 2018 Berlinale, is her first production with the acclaimed Winnipeg directors. 11 photos by karen asher 12 .