Brunswick Mayor Bryan Thompson and his wife, Golden Isles Arts
and Humanities Association (GIAHA) Executive Director Heather Heath,
will star in a short film written and directed by GIAHA Production
Director Rob Nixon and produced for Atlanta's Dailies Project, which
Nixon founded in 2002. The 15-minute film, The Singing, is
scheduled to be shot in Brunswick in late October and will screen in a
festival of Dailies films in Atlanta in December and January.
"The Dailies Project is a unique collaborative effort between
Atlanta's film and theater communities," Nixon explains. "Two or
three times a year we issue a challenge in the form of a theme,
image, idea or set of rules and restrictions. Filmmakers have to
stick closely to the rules, and the pieces they produce are screened in
a unified program that shows various interpretations of or approaches
to the challenge. They're initially screened at PushPush Theater,
but several of these works have gone on to win awards at film festivals
throughout the country. We're hoping to get The Singing in other
festivals beyond the Dailies screenings. And of course, we want
to screen this piece locally at some point in the future."
Nixon, a playwright who has had productions of several of his
plays around the country over the last dozen or so years, moved to
Brunswick in 2005 to work at GIAHA but kept his ties to the
Dailies Project. When the latest challenge was issued, he decided
it was a perfect opportunity to shoot his original script here and send
it up to Atlanta. The Singing is adapted from a scene in a longer
play by Nixon, You Belong to Me, which was produced in Atlanta in 1998.
"I've worked with Heather Heath and a number of theater
projects, including directing her in both Samuel Beckett's Happy Days
at the Ritz last spring and in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes,
which GIAHA is producing next April for our 2006-2007 Performing Arts
Series," Nixon says. "Heather also participated in readings when
the original theater script was developed at PushPush years ago,
playing the same part she'll play in this film version. And I'm really
looking forward to working with Bryan Thompson for the first time."
In addition to Mayor Thompson and Ms. Heath, The Singing also
features Atlanta actress Joan Croker, playing the role she first
created on stage in the 1998 production. The Director of
Photography for the film is James D. Taylor, assistant director on the
Academy Award winning 2001 short feature The Accountant. It will
be edited in Jacksonville, FL, at the studios of Musashi Films.
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