PRESS PACKET CONTENTS CREDITS 3 SYNOPSIS 5 PRESS / FESTIVAL 7 CAST 8 DIRECTOR | EDITOR | PRODUCER 14 DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT 14 WRITER | COMPOSER | PRODUCER 15 DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY 16 COMPOSER | SOUND DESIGNER 17 PRODUCER 18 PRODUCER 19 PRODUCTION INFORMATION 20 SCREEN SHOTS 21 BLIND NOMAD PICTURES 2 CREDITS Director | Editor Robert Cole Writer Erik Lieblein Story by Erik Lieblein Robert Cole Producers Dennis Rainaldi Sara Nesson Chance Kelly Erik Lieblein Robert Cole Executive Producer Rob Michiels Co-Producers Joe Taylor Lena Eberhart Anastasia Barbatsoulis David Jeffryes Gregory Cipriano Annette Delucia Lieblein Rory Ronadio Paul Capel Jon Tirpak Ken McQueen Director of Photography Clarke Mayer Production Designer Randolf Halpern Associate Producers Lee Fierro Ruth Gilwit Dan Bricker Adam Petkus Christos Rentos Costume Designer Kelsey Berry Hair and Makeup Leah Bassett Original Score by Ken McQueen Erik Lieblein Sound Design Ken McQueen BLIND NOMAD PICTURES 3 Casting by Shiela Gray Treather Gassmann Heather A. Robbins Capece Audrey Lorea Lena Detroy (lead) Jessica Cadden Osborne Kellen Witherspoon Chance Kelly Becca Witherspoon Amanda Good Hennessey Sadie Witherspoon Braedyn Clark Devon Sean Kleier Cassie Sosie Bacon BLIND NOMAD PICTURES 4 SYNOPSIS GENRE Slow-burn thriller TAGLINE A young woman takes work on a Martha's Vineyard farm and befriends the ten-year old farmer’s daughter only to discover dark secrets, a violent past and that her life is in danger. SHORT SYNOPSIS After working for the summer on Martha’s Vineyard, Lena’s (28) plans to return home fall through. A local farmer, Kellen (50s), hires her and she forges relationships with her co-workers, his wife Becca (40s), and their precocious daughter Sadie (10). At first, Lena’s experiences on the farm are welcoming and she strikes a close relationship with Sadie. However, over time Lena senses that Sadie is troubled. When a co-worker goes missing, Lena presses Sadie for answers, only to discover that there is a murderer amongst them. LONG SYNOPSIS We open on a lone oak tree centered in a cow pasture. A teenage couple strolls in an open field. A sweet scene quickly turns sinister as the young woman rebuffs the man’s advances. He overtakes her, strangling her in the grass. A phone rings. Lena Detroy (28) on a pay-phone listens to her drunken mother explain that she has sublet her apartment. Lena’s plans to return home are derailed. At a liquor store, Lena meets Becca, a local woman, and her precocious daughter, Sadie (10). Becca mentions that her husband, Kellen, is hiring for the landscaping business that he runs out of their farm. Lena enjoys a last drink with her co- workers at the bar she worked at over the summer. Two locals, Devon and Walter, interrupt the moment but their raucous demeanor forces the bartender to tell them to leave. Lena decides to pursue Becca’s offer. She awaits a bus, but Devon shows up in his truck. She accepts a ride to the farm and they share a flirtatious exchange on the drive. At the farm, she meets Kellen, is reintroduced to Becca and meets her new co-worker and roommate, Marge, who tells her the story of “Emily Backus,” who mysteriously disappeared earlier that summer. Lena meets the other landscapers— Cassie, Zoe, Todd and Jimbo—as well as the farmhand Sienna. The camera departs from Lena’s story and we descend into a darkened room to find Sadie. We dissolve into her memory of Emily Backus and discover Emily was murdered. After work the next day, Sadie invites Lena to her secret hiding place where she offers Lena a sweatshirt from her trunk of clothes that reads “Backus”. The two agree to be “sisters.” Later that night, Lena meets Sienna for drinks and a friendship develops. After a confrontation with Jimbo during work, Lena visits the tree to find Becca who invites her for tea. They share personal stories and Becca confirms Sadie’s affection towards Lena. Lena goes fishing with Devon and then to the local bar. The landscaping crew shows up. Walter and Jimbo get into a fight. Devon intervenes, throws Jimbo onto the bar and threatens him with a dart to his BLIND NOMAD PICTURES 5 eye. Horrified, Lena leaves the bar alone. Later that night at the farm, Jimbo is knocked out with a shovel and dragged away. Lena, seeking solace, visits the oak tree and, to her surprise, finds Sadie sitting in the branches. Seemingly shaken, Sadie tells Lena that she doesn’t “want her to go missing”. The next day, after a group BBQ, we find Jimbo strung up in a tool shed. Through an unknown POV Jimbo is murdered. In the morning, Lena and Marge get ready for work when Marge notices the sweatshirt that Sadie gave Lena. Surprised, she informs Lena that it belonged to “Emily Backus” and finds it creepy that Sadie had it. Concerned for Sadie, Lena heads to the Secret Place by herself. Once inside, looking for clues, she discovers Jimbo’s hat. Lena exits and is confronted by Sadie for betraying her trust by going into her Secret Place, but Kellen interrupts the scene. Frightened, Lena accepts his invitation to enter the house to talk. Lena soon finds herself in a fight for her life and entrusted with a responsibility she never thought would be given to her. BLIND NOMAD PICTURES 6 PRESS / FESTIVALS MV TIMES “Thriller ‘Off Season’ mixes Vineyard talent with Hollywood” http://www.mvtimes.com/2014/02/03/almost-a-wrap-thriller-off-season-mixes-vineyard-talent-with- hollywood/ VINEYARD GAZETTE “Indie Film Dares to Ask Question, What Lurks in Heart of Off Season” https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2013/05/02/indie-film-dares-ask-question-what-lurks-heart-season WOODS HOLE FILM FESTIVAL World Premiere July 30, 2017 CHELSEA FILM FESTIVAL NYC Premiere October 22, 2017 BLIND NOMAD PICTURES 7 CAST JESSICA CADDEN OSBORNE as LENA DETROY (lead) Jessica Cadden Osborne is an NYC based actress, dancer and fitness model. After growing up a disciplined ballet dancer in Pennsylvania, traveling to study in prestigious ballet programs with American Academy of Ballet and Royal Ballet School, she continued on to earn a BFA in Jazz Dance from UARTS in Philadelphia. Highlighted dance credits include seven years as a Radio City Rockette at Radio City Music Hall in NYC, and four years as a performer in the avant-garde aerial show FUERZA BRUTA. Select film credits include Lori in CONVICTION (Short), Beth in HI-GLOW RETRO (Short), and Mira in HEAVEN IS NOW. NY stage credits include Maggie in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF at Cidermill Stage, May in FOOL FOR LOVE at HB Studio Theatre in lower Manhattan and Gloria in YOU NEVER CAN TELL at the Gloria Maddox Theatre in Chelsea. Highlighted fitness modeling credits include a Runners World Magazine cover, many appearances in SHAPE magazine, and print ads for companies like Reebok and Under Armour. Jessica currently studies acting with the renown teacher and director Deborah Kampmeier, and works as an actor and fitness/wellness coach in NYC. Selected Filmography: HEAVEN IS NOW CONVICTION (short) HI-GLOW RETRO (short) BLIND NOMAD PICTURES 8 CHANCE KELLY as KELLEN WITHERSPOON (ALSO A PRODUCER) Chance has enjoyed the opportunity to play a wide array of characters in film and on TV including, among other projects: AMERICAN SNIPER, BROKEN CITY, THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123, HOMELAND, THE BLACKLIST, BANSHEE, AQUARIUS, LAW & ORDER, TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES, HOUSE OF CARDS, ARMY WIVES, GENERATION KILL, FRINGE, THE UNIT, RESCUE ME and UNBREAKABLE. Chance plays the lead role of troubled, rural crime boss, Bernard Angus Coleman in the independent film, BEYOND THE NIGHT, which premieres at the Woodstock Film Festival this year. He also appears as Vincent Bryant in the upcoming season of RAY DONOVAN. Before he was an actor, Chance played college football and fought as an amateur boxer, winning the Superheavyweight division of the NYC Metros tournament. He also fought in the NYC Golden Gloves, winning his first fight by knockout, only to have to subsequently drop out of the competition for work on a film. Today, Chance remains active in the sport of boxing, serving as a professional boxing manager. Selected film and television work: GENERATION KILL (HBO) AMERICAN SNIPER UNBREAKABLE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES AQUARIUS HOUSE OF CARDS LAW AND ORDER RAY DONOVAN BLIND NOMAD PICTURES 9 AMANDA GOOD HENNESSEY as BECCA WITHERSPOON Amanda’s wide range of portrayals in film have included a conflicted sister in the dramatic feature RUBBERNECK, directed by and starring award-winning Alex Karpovsky (HBO's GIRLS), which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. A strung out mom in THE HEAT, a struggling single mom in THE SNEAKERS, and a concerned citizen in THE MAKEOVER. She is a founding member of Albion Park Productions, a film production company. Its first short film, THE OBLIQUE SECTOR, premiered at the Nantucket Film Festival. Amanda served as a co-writer, producer and lead (a snobby foodie). On the theatrical front, Amanda has played a variety of roles – from a teenage babysitter in MR. MARMALADE, a struggling artist in SIC to her favorite - Lois Lane in the critically acclaimed SUPERHEROINE MONOLOGUES with Phoenix Theatre Artists/Company One in Boston, MA. Amanda received her MFA in Acting from the Actors Studio Drama School at the New School in NYC. She has also studied with Upright Citizens Brigade and at The Barrow Group in New York City. Selected filmography: RUBBERNECK THE HEAT THE MAKEOVER THE SNEAKERS BLIND NOMAD PICTURES 10 BRAEDYN CLARK as SADIE WITHERSPOON Braedyn Clark was recommended to Off Season producers by her theater teacher at Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter school in West Tisbury, Massachusetts.