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EFM Business Offices / Renzo Piano Building
Potsdamer Platz 11
Suite 529
Distributors make
your appointments now for the European Film Market.
Contact: mark@americanworldpictures.com
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ATTENDING:
Mark L. Lester: President
(Buying/Selling)
Dana Dubovsky: President of Production
Martin J. Barab: President of International
Production
Adam Singer: Vice President Acquisitions and Co-Production |
Company: American World Pictures
Address: 16027 Ventura Blvd, Suite 320
Encino, CA 91436
Phone: 818-380-9100
Fax: 818-380-0050
Web
site: www.americanworldpictures.com
Email Address:
mark@americanworldpictures.com |
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| THE POET |
| Genre: |
Action Drama |
| Director: |
Damian Lee |
| Cast:
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Daryl Hannah, Roy Scheider, Kim Coates, Colm Feore |
| Synopsis:
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Germany occupies Poland in 1939. They face opposition in the countryside from Polish fighters. German spy units are sent in, one headed up by young Oskar Koenig, a poet by nature. He saves the life of a beautiful young woman, Rachel, dying in a blizzard. He takes her to his cabin, nurses her back to health as the war closes in on them. They consummate their immense attraction to each other despite her being the daughter of a Rabbi, and engaged to Bernard, an orthodox Jew in her village.
Rachel returns to her village to fine it and the inhabitants being destroyed by German soldiers. Oskar rides in, saves both her and Bernard, her fiancé, and sends them, with horses and money, toward the Russian front. It's a dangerous journey but their only hope. Rachel soon discovers she's pregnant with Oskar's child. Bernard forgives her, pledges his love and they marry. Rachel gives birth to a baby boy. She and Oskar unite at a German military camp. But her baby is killed. She and Bernard flee the camp after Rachel kills the German that killed her baby. Bernard sacrifices his life so that Rachel can live and re-unite with Oskar.
Press Releases:
Hollywood Reporter: AWP has a touch of the 'Poet'
Variety: American sells 'Poet' abroad |
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| GHOST WRITER |
| Genre: |
Thriller |
| Director: |
Alan Cumming |
| Cast:
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Alan Cumming, David Boreanaz, Anne Heche, Carrie Fisher, Jane Lynch, Henry Thomas, Karen Black |
| Synopsis:
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In Alan Cumming's solo directorial debut Ghost Writer, Cumming plays John Vandermark, a failed composer turned music teacher with a weakness for impoverished young men of great aspirations. When handsome dilettante Sebastian St. Germain (David Boreanaz: Buffy; Angel; Bones) enters his life claiming to be a novelist, Vandermark is stirred to help him in any way he can. But Vandermark soon grows bitter when his charity is abused. The final blow comes with the discovery that every woman in town is getting a piece of Sebastian with not a scrap left over for his gracious host. What ensues is a malevolent comic bow to the Grand Guignol, offering a fresh twist on the hustler/john power dynamic. With echoes of Edgar Alan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" and the Joseph Losey/Harold Pinter '60s film classic, The Servant, the edgy and stylish Ghost Writer, teaming with juicy theatrical brio, offers fierce performances from Boreanaz and the inimitable chameleon Cumming. Henry Thomas, impressively suave, co-stars with spirited cameos from Anne Heche, Karen Black, Carrie Fisher and Jane Lynch.
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| GRIZZLY PARK |
| Genre: |
Horror |
| Director:
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Tom Skull |
| Cast: |
Glenn Morshower, Rance Howard |
| Running Time:
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90 mins. |
| Official Website: |
www.grizzlypark.com |
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Synopsis: |
Eight troubled young adults are sentenced to a week of community service in a remote California forest range called Grizzly Park. Under the supervision of the stalwart Ranger Bob (Glenn Morshower of 24) the group is given the opportunity to seek redemption on their journey through the forest.
While Ranger Bob seeks to provide guidance to the young adults, an escaped serial killer with an insatiable bloodlust has also found his way into the park with every intention of disposing anyone in his path. But he is not the only predator in these woods - a nine foot tall, thousand pound ravenous Grizzly bear has also set his sights on stalking the group and attacking them one by one, leaving the group to face their ultimate challenge... survival.
As the body count rises and the idyllic camp grounds turn red with blood, Grizzly Park will have you rebooking your vacation.
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| PRETTY LITTLE DEVILS |
| Genre: |
Black Comedy |
| Director:
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Irving Rothberg |
| Country of
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USA |
| Cast: |
Haylie Duff, Madeline Zima, Brett Claywell, Margo Harshman, Jane Sibbett, Tom Green |
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Synopsis: |
Lana Stevens (Haylie Duff; Napoleon Dynamite, Material Girls) is the hottest coed at the Omega Kappa house. Her biggest concern before she graduates is to find the "perfect" new sorority sister to join the house. To her dismay, she is forced to accept a geeky pledge, Katie (Kate Albrecht; HBO's Entourage) because of her legacy status. Along with her sorority sisters Mai (Monica Lo) and Zoey Martin (Madeline Zima; A Cinderella Story, Showtime's Californication), the three best friends plan a night of living HELL for Katie at the 'RUSH TIL YOU PUKE' party. After the geeky, overweight pledge is found dead at the sexiest sorority house on campus, the girls become the prime suspects, investigated by Detective Stras (Tom Green; Road Trip, Charlie's Angels). When their sexy antics fail to impress the police, they pull out every trick in the book. The secrets of sorority sisters have never been so scandalous. Pretty Little Devils...watch your back!
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| CRAZY EIGHTS
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| Genre: |
Supernatural Thriller |
| Director:
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James K. Jones |
| Producers: |
James K. Jones,
Patrick Moses, John Kaila, Dan Deluca |
| Country of
Origin: |
USA |
| Running Time:
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90 mins. |
| Cast: |
Traci Lords, Dina
Meyer, George Newbern, Gabrielle Anwar,
Dan Deluca and Frank Whaley |
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Synopsis: |
Six
friends reunite after 20 years at a mutual
childhood friend's funeral. A search through
their deceased friend's house reveals a
map to a time capsule they buried some twenty
years earlier which spurs the friends to
find it and dig it up. After uncovering
the trunk, the unexpected is found ... the
rotted remains of a child. A child from
a past they've long forgotten, a child that
begins to haunt their every waking moment
and makes them question who they really
are. The closer they come to remembering
the circumstances of the mysterious child's
death, the closer they come to their own
reckoning. The memory that will eventually
kill them one by one is the same memory
they need to discover to stay alive. |
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| JUMP! |
| Genre: |
True Story |
| Director: |
Joshua Sinclair |
| Producers: |
Lilly Berger, Joshua Sinclair |
| Country of
Origin: |
Austria |
| Running Time:
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102 mins. |
| Cast: |
Patrick Swayze, Ben Silverstone, Martine McCutcheon |
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Synopsis: |
JUMP is a psychological
drama revealing for the first time the extraordinary
circumstances behind the unjust murder trial
of the young Jew, Philippe Halsman, who
would later become the most sought after
celebrity portrait photographer of his generation.
Set in 1928 Austria during the rise of fascism,
the story documents the corrupt relationship
between Philippe and his father, the events
leading to his father's death, and focuses
a sharp but delicate eye upon the anti-Semitic
atmosphere that quickly led to Philippe's
conviction. |
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| LOST COLONY |
| Genre: |
Supernatural
Horror |
| Director:
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Matt Codd |
| Producers: |
Mark Lester, Dana
Dubovsky, Rafael Jordon |
| Cast: |
Adrian Paul |
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Synopsis: |
With their arrival to the New World, the English colonists lead by Governor White settle into Fort Raleigh with hopes of creating a new life on the peaceful island of Roanoke, Virginia. Unfortunately, the horrific discovery of a dangling corpse and a warning written in blood to save your souls before they take them from you, is quickly covered up by the Governor and his men and kept secret from the others.
Several nights later, haunting cries echo through the dark forest and are soon followed by attacks on the colonist's isolated fort by supernatural ghosts with the intent of wiping out every soul on the island. Ananias Dare (Adrian Paul) and his fellow colonist ban together to fight the malevolent spirits and destroy them before they are destroyed themselves. With the help of Manteo, an Indian guide on the main land, Ananias uncovers the mysterious truth of these ancient wraiths and learns of a ritual that could send them back to the netherworld.
Ananias' last and only hope to save his family and surviving colonists fall short when the ritual goes awry and he and the entire colony vanish forever, leaving only the words Croatan carved into a tree.
Based on the true story of the lost colony of Roanoke. |
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| TRILOQUIST |
| Genre: |
Horror |
| Director: |
Mark Jones |
| Producers: |
Michael Levine, Marlon Parry, Jack Edward Sawyers |
| Country of
Origin: |
USA |
| Running Time:
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80 mins. |
| Cast: |
Rocky Marquette, Paydin LoPachin, Katie Chonacas |
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Synopsis: |
In a seedy motel in Hollywood, a down and out ventriloquist with a creepy looking Dummy, kills herself with a drug overdose as her two young children watch. The kids are sent to live with a perverted uncle who ends up dead.
Turning eighteen, the beautiful and twisted sister tells her brother they will head out to Las Vegas so he can be a great ventriloquist like their mother was. The brother has never spoken since the death of his mother, and the creepy Dummy does all his talking. and the Dummy seems to hate the sister. This weird trio set out on Halloween night and end up killing a young kid. The sister and the Dummy blame the silent brother and he is sent to an institution. Months later, the sister and the "demented" Dummy break the brother out and the three of them set out on a road trip where they kidnap a young girl so her brother can impregnate her and carry on the "family bloodline." Being hunted by the police this desperate and psychotic "trio" fall further and further into darkness. and the creepy Dummy seems to develop a "life" and "mind" of his own. In a twisted and shocking ending, the beautiful sister and the Dummy kill her brother and get away only to end up back in a seedy part of Hollywood where the sister has given birth to a baby... which the Dummy holds in his arms like a proud papa.
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| I TRIED |
| Genre: |
Action/Urban |
| Cast: |
Bone Thugs & Harmony |
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Synopsis: |
It is common knowledge that BONE THUGS N' HARMONY took a leap of faith in order to make it in the music game. Boarding a bus bound for Los Angeles, they had a plan to get an audience with Eazy-E and get signed to Ruthless Records. Though things didn't go exactly as planned, they eventually made it happen. The rest is, as they say, history with Bone Thugs becoming the luminaries of hip-hop they are known as today. But - what if life spiraled in a different direction and interfered? What if they never met Eazy-E? I TRIED is the action-packed, thrilling tale of what "could have" happened if Bone Thugs N Harmony never came to be. |
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| BORN |
| Genre: |
Horror |
| Director:
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Richard Friedman |
| Producers: |
Richard Friedman,
Richard Sindell, Michael Dietz |
| Country of
Origin: |
USA |
| Running Time:
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90 mins. |
| Cast: |
Kane Hodder, Denise
Crosby, Joan Severance |
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Synopsis: |
Mary
Elizabeth goes to bed alone one night, still
a 21 year old virgin, and wakes up the next
morning...pregnant. Possessed by the demon
fetus growing within her womb, Mary Elizabeth
obeys her homicidal cravings to kill...for
the sake of her unborn spawn. Mary Elizabeth's
dark transformation, controlled by her unborn
demon child, is driven by it's dark cravings.
Once the child is born there will be hell
on earth. From this apparent immaculate
conception comes edge of your seat terror.
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| IN A DARK PLACE |
| Genre: |
Horror |
| Country of
Origin: |
USA |
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Synopsis: |
She thought she was their Guardian Angel, but was she really their Nanny from Hell? A chilling modern ghost story, inspired by a classic of the genre, In A Dark Place is the suspenseful, erotic story of a young woman fighting to redeem the souls of two children seduced by dark influences beyond the grave. |
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| SEPTEMBER DAWN |
| Genre: |
Drama |
| Director:
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Christopher Cain |
| Country of
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USA |
| Cast: |
Jon Voight with Lolita Davidovich, Dean Cain and Terence Stamp |
| Official Website: |
www.SeptemberDawn.net |
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Synopsis: |
Known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the film is based upon the tragedy which occurred in Utah in 1857. A group of Arkansas settlers traveling on wagons through Utah were brutally murdered by local Mormons. All together, 140 women, children and men were slaughtered. Amidst this nightmare, two young lovers-to-be, one a Mormon and the other, a doomed settler from Arkansas, develop a relationship in an atmosphere of suspicion and rancor.
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| YETI |
| Genre: |
Horror |
| Director:
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Paul Ziller |
| Cast: |
Crystal Lowe, Kris Pope, Peter DeLuise |
| Running Time:
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90 mins. |
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Synopsis: |
After their plane crashes into uncharted territory in the snowy Himalayan Mountains, the surviving members of a college football team led by quarterback Peyton Marino set out to find help in a freezing cold blizzard. As days pass with no rescue in sight, food and morale run low and some of the survivors, including team manager Sarah (Carly Pope) battle their consciences as they make the heartrending decision that in order to survive, they must use the dead bodies of their teammates as a food source. But their biggest danger is lurking nearby; a hungry beast that stalks them with an insatiable bloodlust. The Yeti.
Hot on a distress call, mountain rangers Sheppard (Peter DeLuise) and Fury (Ona Grauer) scale the treacherous mountain side to locate the survivors before they succumb to the elements or become the latest victims of the ancient creature. Arriving at the base camp they find those that remain and learn that Sarah has been taken away by the snow beast.
With only a few hours of daylight left in the day, the group struggle along the rocky cliffs in a desperate search to find Sarah. Coming face to face with the Yeti, they battle it out in hopes of making it to a helicopter rendezvous that will save them from this snowy hell. But with the Yeti fiercely killing them one by one, can they make it to the mountain top in time to escape?
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