Directed By: Kaitlyn Mae Jones Produced By: Claudio Cruz and Joshua Messmer
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The Film-Storyline
The Last Night is a coming of age drama about Dru (15) struggling to connect to her sister, Marly (19) and to deal with the changes in her life as a result of her parent's death 6 months ago.
Release Notes
15FEB
2016: KickStarter Launch
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Concept Artwork by
Mavx R.A. Fedore (Mavximinvs Studios)
MAX R. A. FEDORE is finishing his senior year at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Majoring in Film and Television Production and Minoring in Psychology. While at NYU, he has focused on writing and directing and plans to complete his undergraduate career with two short films and two feature-length screenplays.
www.mavximinvs.com
Soundtrack By: AJ Smith
Already an award-winning songwriter, multi-instrumentalist musician, and off-Broadway performer (What's it All About?), AJ Smith opened for legendary rock band, the Eagles at the Beacon Theatre in New York City in November of 2012. This performance garnered press from the New York Times and Associated Press and helped lead to the success of Smith's New York EP release in April of 2013 to a sold-out crowd at Webster Hall. To find out more check out his facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ajsmithmusic/ and his website http://www.ajsmithmusic.com/#welcome
The Director
Kaitlyn Mae Jones
Kaitlyn Mae Jones is a senior at NYU Tisch School of The Arts. She has been directing and working on films in some capacity for the past four years. Kaitlyn found her love for directing as a senior in high school, directing her first full length play Rumors. The experience of directing Rumors and her history in theater shaped the way she directs her actors and her films. Born in Southern California, Kaitlyn spent two years studying film production at a college in Los Angeles before moving to New York to continue her work at NYU. NYU has awarded Kaitlyn with the Willard T. C. Johnson Fellowship, a prestigious scholarship given to one student each year for evidence of exceptional creative ability and demonstrating professional promise in the film and television industry.
Kaitlyn could not be more excited about directing The Last Night, she can not wait to see how the film turns out and is so proud of the cast and crew who are putting in so much work to make it all happen.
The Crew
Claudio Cecilio Cruz
After earning a Certificate in Film Production from NYU in the Summer of 2014, Claudio used it towards getting into a number of independent and student film crews. Working every position from key grip to producer to get a broader understanding of how the crew works as a whole to be an effective producer. After a few gigs with NBC working on several commercial spots, he got the attention of a producer from the video team of Jetblue Airways, and a few weeks later was offered a job with the team!
Josh Messmer
Joshua Messmer is a Film and TV major at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Making movies has been his dream for as long as he can remember. He has produced, directed, or otherwise been involved in several NYU films over the last few years and is currently interning at the HULU original series Difficult People. He is excited to expand his repertoire with Kaitlyn’s film; a film about home and family.
Bridget Gabbe. TV: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix), The Following (FOX), Blue Bloods (CBS), I Love, but I Lied (LMN). Feature film debut in Big Stone Gap, based on the bestselling book, written and directed by Adriana Trigiani. Theatre: The People Before the Park (Premiere Stages), Sex and Education (Penguin Rep), Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander (ReGroup Theatre/Barrow Group), The Table Scene (Urban Stages), Next Stop, Anywhere, Eureka! (National tour). Bridget has also participated in numerous readings, workshops and short films. She is a graduate of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts (NYC); University of Michigan BFA. www.bridgetgabbe.com
Cast Member - Dru (played by: Aly Brier):
Aly Brier (AEA, SAG-AFTRA) is an 18 year old New Yorker who has been a working actor since age 10. She recently played a lead role in a Hulu pilot for the series Shelter, in addition to principal roles on Broadway (Billy Elliot the Musical), a National Tour (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), as well as many short films, commercials, voiceovers and more. Aly has received awards including Best Supporting Actor in a Thesis Film (Loomings Film Awards, 2012) and Creative Empowerment Arts Award for her original film A Helping Hand (2015). Aly is represented by JGD Talent Agency and Bercy Talent Management. www.imdb.me/alybrier
Plot Outline
Marly (19) has been taking care of her sister Dru (15) for the past 6 months following their parent's death. Now, Marly needs to go to college, and Dru has to move from her hometown to a new state to live with an estranged aunt. Struggling to deal with these changes, and being unable to connect to her sister, Dru acts out as a way to deal with her anger and grief. Marly and Dru must come together to find strength in each other to get through the changes in their lives.
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Extra information about the film and Release Notes
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The Cast continued
Cast Member 1
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Cast Member 2
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Cast Member 3
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Cast Member 4
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Crew continued
McKenzie Zuleger the Director of Photography
McKenzie is in her final semester at NYU ‘s Tisch School of the Arts studying filmmaking. She has spent the last few years dedicating her studies to the art of Cinematography after discovering her love for photography. Through the footsteps of her dad’s hobby of photography McKenzie became fascinated by capturing beauty with a camera, things only progressed from there.
Kate Lemberg - Casting Director
Kate Lemberg is a junior majoring in Cinema Studies at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Growing up in San Diego, California in a family whose careers have all lied in the arts, Kate knew she would follow in her family's footsteps after she fell in love with movies and television at eight years old. Having been on the casting team for many NYU student films and having just completed an internship at Roundabout Theatre Company/Jim Carnahan Casting, Kate knows that casting is the right path for her. She is very excited to be the casting director on "The Last Night!"
Megan Tomei - Casting Assistant
Megan Tomei is so excited to continue her experience as a Casting Director. She is a junior at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and is studying acting at the Stella Adler Conservatory. She was recently the assistant stage manger for Joker (Fringe Festival) and was an acting apprentice at The Powerhouse Theater Training Program.
Ayden Skye - 1st Assistant Director
Ayden is a native New Yorker with a raspy voice and a 1970s wardrobe. After seven years in film and television, she has over a dozen credits to her name, ranging from "Sometimes the Blues", a 2015 Cannes Short Film Corner selection, to Rebecca Miller's Maggie's Plan, starring Julianne Moore, Ethan Hawke and Greta Gerwig. Last year, she worked on the inaugural season of The Jim Gaffigan Show, graduated NYU, and made "Daffy", a nostalgia-powered short film that she wrote, directed, and starred in. This year, she'll be festival-hopping, and finding new ways to get herself into trouble.
