UPCOMING PROJECTS
REGINALD III
Writer Ashley Christopher Leach
Director Laura Klein
Starring J. Andrew McNeal & Ashley Christopher Leach
Currently in pre-production; to be shot in NYC this summer
SEYMOUR: THE LAST FALLEN ANGEL
Writer Ashley Christopher Leach
Director J. Andrew McNeal
Performer Ashley Christopher Leach
A dynamic character study in which a young man Seymour desperately tries to rationalize his feelings of doubt and guilt brought on by the unbending nature of religion. With the imagination of a child and the reading of a scholar, Seymour plays various characters as he acts out the fallacies and paradoxes of the world’s three major religions, especially Christianity, with his only friend, a battered sofa name Melba.
LAST NIGHT IN AMERICA
Finalist for the IFP/Chicago Production Fund
Writer Ashley Christopher Leach
Director Laura Klein
Starring J. Andrew McNeal
Currently in pre-production; to be shot on HD in Chicago in the fall of 2010
Halloween night in a Chicago cemetery proves to be a defining moment for one teenager, who after spending the evening trick-or-treating with a best friend, witnesses the brutality of a failed romance. Inspired by Norman Rockwell’s iconic paintings of small town American life in the 20th century, Last Night in America explores two modern urban relationships, one at its youthful genesis and the other at its inevitable, ugly end. Like many of Rockwell’s images, nothing is truly as it appears to be.
PATTY MELT
Writer Ashley Christopher Leach
Short film In development
On a hot, summer afternoon while racing to meet his girlfriend’s parents at the beach, Connor’s car breaks down, and he is forced to seek the assistance of Patty Melton, a peculiar young lady who claims to be a talented ballerina. What Connor doesn’t know is that Patty is hiding a troubling past, which manifests itself each day as she takes care of her two mentally handicapped brothers.
PIMENTO CHEESE (working title)
Writer Ashley Christopher Leach
Feature film In development
In an eccentric southern town where the only church turns into the local bar at night, thirty-year-old Abe still lives with his drunkard mother Georgiana and his overly intelligent uncle. As the locals prepare to celebrate the anniversary of a miscarriage Georgiana had twenty-five years ago, Abe befriends a handsome visiting actor whom he hopes will help him get out of his hometown. Taking its inspiration from such films as Steel Magnolias and Crimes of the Heart, Pimento Cheese revamps the southern melodrama and turns it on its head.
SANDHILL BOYS
(feature-- see past projects for Slamdance-selected short film)
Writer Ashley Christopher Leach
Feature film In development
Forced to live in a small, southern town as punishment for a crime he committed out of love, Donald spends his lonely days amongst the Carolina tobacco barns reliving the only moment in his life of any meaning. But when his friend A.D., a diffident country boy with his own troubles in love, helps Donald devise a plan to escape their existential situation, the two characters become involved in a fantastical tale involving a witch, gold whiskey, and a precocious young boy named Vardaman. Set fifty some years after a fictitious war, Sandhill Boys is a new twist on the southern gothic tale.
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