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SHADES OF GRAY

Three Festival Featurettes
To be distributed on one DVD disk (2008)

Includes the following films:

Aphasia

Produced, written and directed.

Science Fiction and Psychological Fantasy. Featuring Gretchen Gray and Frank Baker and members of the Actors Ensemble Theatre. Filmed at the McCullough Mansion in North Bennington, Vermont.

Dr. A., a controversial Jungian psychiatrist, working with young criminal personalities, attempts dangerous experiments with hypnosis and archetypes. When she is found to be missing, her colleague, Dr. B., explores the audiovisual records of her experiments in an attempt to determine what became of her.

Filmed at the McCullough Mansion in North Bennington, Vermont and edited on the island of Ios in Greece.

An eerie mystère
30 minutes.

Note: APHASIA was screened at the Psychic Film Festival in Montreal and New York and at the Festival Internazionale del Film di Fantascienza in Trieste, Italy.

Aphasia

P.I.N.S.

Produced and directed.
Screenplay by Gretchen Gray.
Controversial dramatized documentary.
B&W, 22 minutes.

Incarcerated youngsters help to create their own poignant story of what it was like to spend the first day and night in a home for wayward children. The filmmakers, as represented by the National Legal Director of the ACLU (the Pentagon Papers lawyer), fought off a frivolous 1.5 million dollar First Amendment lawsuit to relieve the restraining order placed on the film.

Note: PINS was accorded a standing ovation when it was shown at The Festival International du Film de Court Metrage et du Film Documentaire, Grenoble, France.

Persons in Need of Supervision

Starfish

Produced and directed.
An occult mystère based on the story, LE MIROIR, by Claude Seignolle, the famed French author of tales of the supernatural and fantastique. It was adapted for the screen by Claudia Casper, a prize-winning Canadian writer.
Production Design by Don Llewellyn

Set in 1937, it tells the story of a Garboesque actress of the silver screen who had undergone plastic surgery on her face which had been disfigured in an automobile accident. Secluded in a small village overlooking the sea during the Hispanic Day of the Dead celebration, she awaits the trauma of removing her mask-like bandages to see what God and Fate had wrought. Filmed on locations on California’s Central Coast, STARFISH is a haunting story with a surprise ending, told in a style reminiscent of Edgar Allen Poe.

Starring Gretchen Gray with contributions by two Academy Award winners in the areas of special effects and sound mixing.

35mm Panavision
22minutes

Note: STARFISH won the Bronze Prize at WorldFest, the Houston International Film Festival

Starfish

Available in 2008:

Everyman

an independent film

Written, produced, directed and edited by Paul Gray
Featuring Douglas Freeman and Gretchen Gray

An allegorical adaptation of the 16th-Century English morality play, "Everyman," set in an oppressive, post-apocalyptic society in which the remaining population (the outer sector) is controlled by an elite few (the inner sector) through the use of a demonic computerized surveillance system. It is against this regime that Everyman rebels.

Included are the expressionistic "Seven Deadly Sins" sequences, the personal nightmares of Everyman

Set in the not too distant future.

Previously test-screened at the New York and Berlin Film Festivals.

Re-edited and digitized for the upcoming DVD release.

Given the current socio-political constraints paralyzing the world we live in, the time for this movie is now.

Produced by Atelier Pictures
1 hour 45 minutes

The traditional Everyman is an ordinary individual with whom the audience readily identifies, who is placed in extraordinary life and death circumstances. And so it is with our contemporary Everyman.

The Seven Deadly Sins are a classification of vices concerning fallen man's tendency to sin. Listed in the same order used by both Pope Gregory the Great in the 6th century AD, and later by Dante in his epic poem, The Divine Comedy, the seven deadly sins are as follows: Luxuria (extravagance, later lust), Gula (gluttony), Avarita (greed), Acedia (sloth), Ira (wrath), Invidia (envy), and Superbia (pride).

Portraits from Everyman

Douglas Freeman as CODE NAME EVERYMAN
Photo by Ronald L. Glassman

Gretchen Gray as the allegorical character of DEATH
Photo by Ronald L. Glassman

CODE NAME The Falsely Accused
Photo by Ronald L. Glassman

CODE NAME The Voyeur
Photo by Ronald L. Glassman

Death of the Voyeur from LUST (7 SINS)

Lobby card for THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS OF EVERYMAN
graphics by Daniel Mahoney

Frame from WRATH (7 SINS)