The truth this time. orton Films LLC 970 Kent Avenue Suite #704 Brooklyn, NY 11205 917-363-9341 [email protected] www.TheSequelMovie.com www.TheSequelMovie.com [email protected] Mystery/Black Comedy A true-crime author and private eye reinvestigate the case that inspired their bestseller. Screenplay Awards for The Sequel : First Place - Indie Gathering , Suspense/Thriller Official Selection of 2009 Beverly Hills Film Festival Top 15 - 2009 Bare Bones Film Festival Finalist - 2009 Charleston International Film Festival Finalist - Progress Writers Finalist - Red Inkworks “Some of the best dialog I have read this year.” --Larry Myles Contest Director, Red Inkworks Matt Rhoden Writer/Producer Matt Rhoden has worked as a story analyst for CPC Entertainment . His screenwriting work includes an adaptation of a film in development for Vince Cannon Films , Golden Pasture, by National Book Award winner, Joyce Carol Thomas . He's also written film and video scripts for Academy Awardnominated filmmaker Tom Neff’s Wild Wolf Productions . Matt is coowner of Eagle Corporate Apartments , a corporate housing vendor that places people in apartments across the U.S. He has an MA in English Literature from Tennessee State University. Wendy Shear The daughter of the late director/producer Director/Producer Barry Shear and actress Sondra Roe Shear, Wendy learned the film business first-hand from her father. Wendy assistant-directed such shows as Dynasty , Wings and Sisters as well as Clint Eastwood's Every Which Way But Loose . She also did stunt- and second-unit direction on many shows, including Dukes of Hazard . Recently, Wendy produced Bedfellows and directed The Camera’s Eye , which are currently screening and winning awards at many top festivals─ Bedfellows (Producer) The Camera’s Eye (Director) Official Selections (Partial List): Official Selections : -Strasbourg Int’l Film Festival -Atlantic City Int’l Film Festival -Sarasota Film Festival -Toronto Independent Film Festival -Toronto Independent Film Festival -The Famous Monsters of Filmland Film Festival -VisionFest (Tribeca Cinemas, NYC) -Bergenfield Film Festival -Palm Springs Int’l Short Fest -Silk City Film Festival -Rhode Island Int’l Film Festival -Garden State Film Festival -International Film Festival Ireland Nominated Best Home Grown Feature Nominated Best LBGT Film -Hoboken Film Festival -Philadelphia Q-fest Nominated Best Picture Won Audience Award Nominated Best Actress Nominated Best Supporting Actress -Long Island Film Expo Won Best Editing ( Ron Kalish ) Won Best Long Island Film Won Best Director ( Shear ) Won Best Original Score Won Best Cinematography ( Combe ) -Breckenridge Festival of Film Won Best LBGT Film -Seattle Film Festival Golden Space Needle Runner Up -Atlanta Film Festival Nominated Pink Peach Jury Award Clayton Combe Director of Photography Clayton, a graduate of Oberlin College, shoots narrative, music video, commercials, and television. His work has been shown on HBO and in festivals ( Bedfellows – Best Cinematography , Long Island Film Expo; Spare Change - HBO International Latino Film Festival, 2010 Teachers - People's Choice Award - New York Television Festival). Clayton is an avid proponent of the HDSLR movement, supporting the freedom and opportunity that cameras such as the Canon 5D Liz Ortiz-Mackes mkII and 7D afford low-budget filmmaking. To Casting Director/Associate Producer view his reel, visit tonmanproductions.com . As the owner of Casting Solutions in New York City, Liz has been a SAG and Equity franchised talent agent on both coasts, Director of Special Events at the Dramatists Guild and Director of Artists Files OnLine at the NonTraditional Casting Project. In addition to casting, Liz has branched out into producing with Casting Solution’s newest division, I Ain’t Playin Films which has been involved with developing several film projects including The Camera’s Eye . Liz is the author of the highly acclaimed book Ace Your Acting Audition published by S.O.M.E. productions. She is on the faculty of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, conducts monthly workshops for the Screen Actors Guild Foundation and is a guest instructor at the New York Film Academy. Ron Kalish Editor Ron Kalish has edited picture and sound with some of the most talented professionals in the industry, including Woody Allen , Sydney Pollack, and Ron Howard on some of their best known films-- Take the Money and Run , Sleeper , Love and Death , Three Days of the Condor and Parenthood , to name a few. Recently, he edited Sea of Dust (winner Best Picture , Rhode Island International Film Festival) and Camera’s Eye ( Best Editing , Hoboken Film Festival). Director’s Statement Wendy Shear My first read of The Sequel brought back a flood of childhood memories, and I just knew this film was mine. 1963 the opening of the Hollywood Press premiere of It's A Mad, Mad, Mad World , just my father and me. MGM's old line, “more stars than there are in the heavens” more than applied to the screening and the film. No part was too small for these great actors. I decided if I ever got the chance, I would make a film peppered with actors that people love and long to see over and over again. The Sequel is that film I dreamed about, a blend of action, drama, mystery, wrapped in a confection of madcap comedy. I intend to make each part, no matter how big or small, stand on its own to delight our audience. Synopsis Mystery/Black Comedy Facing plummeting sales, true-crime author, ILYANA SAMUELS, agrees to appear on a talk show with maverick private eye, HARLEY WOLF, for a last- ditch promotion of their book, Burned By Fire . The host, KITTY KILCULLEN, tells the crowd she’s going to reveal new information about the book’s crimes— a string of arsons at gay bars. But then Kitty is murdered in her dressing room. Harley tells the reporters she’s going to nail the murderer before nightfall, then she and Ilyana set out to find the killer. What they find are links between Kitty’s murder and the arsons. Is it the same person? They have material, Ilyana realizes, for a sequel that could make their careers. So why does Harley suddenly want to bury it all? Mindy Cohn Harley Wolf Mindy Cohn made her acting debut as the witty, outspoken Eastland Academy student Natalie Green in the hit comedy series The Facts of Life . She was discovered while attending Westlake School for Girls in Bel Air, California, when actress Charlotte Rae and producer Norman Lear came to the school to authenticate scripts for their new show. Ms. Rae was so taken with the vivacious eighth grader she convinced producers to create a role for her. Ms. Cohn remained on the show for nine years, then traveled to Paris and Australia with her costars to produce two successful television movies based on the series. Concurrently, with her role in Facts , Ms. Cohn played Rose Jenko in Fox’s 21 Jump Street . Other notable television appearances included Diff’rent Strokes , Double Trouble , Charles in Charge , Dream On and Suddenly Susan . In 1983, Ms. Cohn appeared in her first professional stage performance in Table Settings , written and directed by James Lapine and filmed for HBO Television. The illustrious cast included Eileen Heckart, Stockard Channing, Robert Klein, Peter Riegart, and Dinah Manoff. She went on to make her feature film debut in The Boy Who Could Fly , which costarred Colleen Dewhurst, Fred Gwynne and Fred Savage. Ms. Cohn took a hiatus from her career to attend university, where she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Cultural Anthropology. During this time, she studied improvisation and scene work with Gary Austin, Harry Mastergeorge, and Larry Moss. In 1993, Ms. Cohn received a Dramalogue Award for her performance in a production of Catholic School Girls at the Globe Playhouse in Los Angeles. The following year, she returned to television as Mo Tucker in the NBC series, The Second Half , starring John Mendozza, Wayne Knight and Jessica Lundy. In 1995, Ms. Cohn and Alan Thicke cohosted the radio show Talkzone , which gave teens a venue to discuss pertinent issues with their parents. Ms. Cohn starred on the WB sitcom The Help alongside Antonio Sabato, Jr. and Tori Spelling. She also starred in the pilot Virtually Casey for the Disney Channel and continues to be the voice of Velma in the animated series What’s ew, Scooby Doo? for which she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy award. While continuing to have a successful voice over career, she has starred feature films Under the Gun , Alone with a Stranger , Swing , I Heart Huckabees , the independent feature, Third Wish working alongside Armand Assante, Betty White and Sean Maguire and the Daniel Waters feature Sex & Death 101 opposite Simon Baker and Winona Ryder. She can next be seen as the star of Violet Tendencies to be released this spring. Just back from Canada where she starred as Florence Jenkins in the Peter Quilter play Glorious! , Ms. Cohn currently resides in Los Angeles where she is working towards a Masters Degree! Terri Garber Ilyana Samuels Terri’s acting debut was in 1982, when she played Allison Linden on the soap opera Texas . Her screen breakthrough was in the 1984 action film Toy Soldiers . Following that, Garber landed the role of Ashton Main in orth and South , a miniseries based on the John Jakes novel, and starring Patrick Swayze, James Read, David Carradine, Jean Simmons, and Lesley-Anne Down. The series was very successful, and Garber continued to play Ashton when the other Jakes novels ( Love and War , Heaven and Hell ) were brought to television. From 1987 through ‘88, Garber played Leslie Carrington on the hit primetime soap Dynasty by Aaron Spelling. After Dynasty she landed roles in other soap operas (Santa Barbara , General Hospital ), and has played many guest and recurring roles on such shows as Murder She Wrote , Quantum Leap , My Two Dads , Seventh Heaven , Law and Order , E.R ., Cold Case and Judging Amy.