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For
Immediate Release:
August 13th, 2004
Contact: John Madonna
Bohemia Productions, L.L.C.
(734) 453-2781
email: jmadonna@umich.edu
Plymouth, Michigan
Bohemia Productions presents
A
new film, “Last Night”
Premiering
August 24th, 2004
7:00 PM
Plymouth Community Arts
Council
774 N. Sheldon, Plymouth, MI
(734) 416-4278
“Last Night”
A New Film By Paul Schimmel and D. James Nikolits
On
the day that our protagonist is going back to college and the girl of his
dreams, he makes an unsettling discovery that forces him to stay one more
night. With the exception of one scene
shot in Ann Arbor, the entire film was shot in
the houses and yards of the crew in Plymouth
and Canton, as well as Zack’s Restaurant in Plymouth. It was shot over one week in August, but
the pre-production began at the end of May.
Our
goal in making this film was simple.
We wanted to see a film that is especially relevant to people in our
own age group, and we felt that the only way we could ever see such a movie
is make it ourselves.
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Information about “Last Night” is available upon request. Contact John Madonna
Director
– Paul Schimmel.
Written
by – Fred Richards.
Producer
– John J. Madonna.
Starring–
Keith Brown, Dave Donaldson, Jon Georgievski,
Brendan Krueger, John Madonna, Tim Majzlik,
Susan Merenda, D. James Nikolits, Paul Schimmel.
Original Music
by – Phoenix.
Technical Crew
–Cami Devey, Mark
Madonna, and Paul Sutherland.
Finances
– in addition to our own pocket money, we did bottle drives for extra funds.
Additional
Thanks to Andrea Hoglen
for writing supervision.
Bios:
Keith
Brown: 15, Plymouth,
sophomore at Plymouth-Salem High School, actor.
Cami Devey:
17, Canton, Plymouth-Canton
High School graduate ’04, will
attend Brigham Young University
this fall, head of makeup department.
Dave
Donaldson: 18, Farmington Hills,
Plymouth-Salem High School
Jon
Georgievski:17, Plymouth,
junior at Plymouth-Salem
High School, actor and
musician.
Andrea
Hoglen: 19, Plymouth, Plymouth-Salem
High School graduate ‘02, third year
at University
of Dearborn, provided
invaluable help in script revisions.
Brendan
Krueger: 17, Canton,
senior at Plymouth-Canton High School, actor. "As with almost anything in life, the
skill is not in preventing the mistake, but recovering from it."
John
J. Madonna: 19, Plymouth,
Plymouth-Canton High School graduate ’03, math major at University of Michigan, actor. “I was asked one time, how I got all of
these people to commit to a project this large and this crazy. And all I can say to that is basically the
people working on this are some of the most intelligent, talented, and
enthusiastic people I know, and I’m just lucky that I have them.”
Mark
Madonna: 15, Plymouth,
sophomore at Plymouth-Canton
High School, production
assistant and cameraman.
Tim
Majzlik: 18, Canton, senior at Plymouth-Canton High School,
actor.
Susan
Merenda: 19, Canton, Plymouth-Salem
High School graduate
’03, English major at Harvard, actress.
D.
James Nikolits: 19, Plymouth,
Plymouth-Canton Salutatorian ’03, anthropology and theatre major with a minor
in history at Central
Michigan University,
writing supervisor and actor.
"Adventures into filmmaking are always most enjoyable when
friends are involved. This film is a collective project, allowing us to
all explore and experience more of the medium we love to use and perform
with."
Fred
Richards: 20, Northville, Northville
High School graduate ’02, currently
economics major at University
of Michigan; he is the
writer of the screenplay. “I wrote
this script one night just for fun, and I showed it John. After one read, he said, ‘This is great, I
want to produce it.’ And I just nodded
and said that would be bloody marvelous.”
Phoenix: 3, from Plymouth and Canton,
this band started off as The Red & The Blue, later The Red, The Blue & The Silver and were the high schools’ pep
bands at PCEP. They are a
thirteen-piece ensemble that combines rock guitars and winds and brass. They are providing original music for the
movie.
Paul
Schimmel: 18, Canton, Plymouth-Canton
graduate ’04, director.
Paul
Sutherland: 20, Canton, Plymouth-Canton graduate ’03,
Communications major at Central Michigan University, gaffer, musician, and
all around miracle worker.
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