NORTH DAKOTA-MADE

INDEPENDENT MOVIES

(Feature-length motion picture productions)

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FROM CHARLES M. HINTON:

-Feature and some shorts

- production/postproduction in progress on shorts, development/preproduction on feature

FROM CHRISTOPHER P. JACOBS:

Dangers from Within

– teen character drama/supernatural suspense thriller (in postproduction)

shot in summer 2007

Britney’s Bloody Birthday

– cabin-by-the-lake slasher thriller (in development)

production hoped for in 2007 or 2008

Night Job

– heist thriller (in development)

production hoped for sometime in 2007 or 2008

The Vegas Connection (or, Loving Lila) (tentative working titles)

– noir crime thriller, written by Todd Bulman (in development)

production hoped for sometime in 2007 or 2008

Working Nights

-Currently on hiatus- shooting in Grand Forks began winter 2002-spring 2003, (approx. half shot);

completion hoped for by 2010 (additional casting and rewrites or reshooting required)

Produced by Christopher P. Jacobs and Jennifer Leroux, written and directed by Christopher P. Jacobs

- 48 min. of edited footage completed (with titles to bridge missing scenes)

Starring Jennifer Leroux, Chris Campbell, Christian Clapp, Paul Kelly, Kari Larson, Christopher P. Jacobs

Yuppie crime drama/murder mystery

TRAILER 667 kb (RealPlayer)

Several other feature-length scripts in various stages of progress, including:

Snowbound and Gagged – romantic small-town screwball comedy (script in second draft)

Lost Little Girls – children's drama (script in progress)

J.P. and Tina – experimental social drama/character study (script in progress)

The Bottom Line – corporate thriller (script in progress)

Losing It – twisted psychological drama (script in progress; second-unit photography in New York City completed)

Haunting Melody – supernatural romantic comedy with music (treatment in progress)

FROM PAUL KELLY:

Untitled feature

– urban legend ghost story/vampire thriller (script in progress)

Production hoped for by 2010

FROM CHRIS PANNECK:

The Lutefisk Wars

– feature-length mocumentary

Postproduction in progress, shot in Grand Forks summer 2004 on HiDef video

Written, produced and directed by David Hall and Christopher Panneck, Sojourner Pictures, LLC

Completion expected sometime in 2006

FROM MICHAEL SHIREK:

The One: The Search For Love On The Great Plains

– mockumentary romantic comedy

to be shot in Fargo, Grand Forks, and rural eastern North Dakota, time TBA (preproduction and casting in progress)

Written and Directed by Michael Shirek

Starring Grant Haake and others TBA

FROM MICHAEL STROMENGER:

Hannah

– psychological suspense thriller

to be shot in Fargo (preproduction on hold)

produced with Craig Peterson

Untitled featurette

– action thriller

to be shot in Larimore (preproduction on hold)

produced with Craig Peterson

FROM TONY TILTON:

Rough Draft

– comedy/fantasy/adventure, 110 minutes

shot in Fargo-Moorhead in 1992 on 16mm (MOS), digitally transferred to video, and still in post-production to complete the entirely ADR and foley soundtrack; estimated completion in 2007

Close Orbits

– science-fiction espionage thriller, 110 minutes

produced with Sean Moyer

shot in England, Germany, New York City, and the upper Midwest during the mid-1990s (expanded from a 30-minute 1994 short); special effects work and computer animation currently in progress before postproduction can be completed; estimated completion in 2007

Five new screenplays currently in development

FROM NICHOLAS ZEMAN:

Far From the Ocean

shooting in Minot and Fargo (on HDV), Summer 2005 - 2006

Produced and Directed by Nicholas Zeman and Jon Olson, Written by Nicholas Zeman

Starring David Puma, Patrick O'Neal, Michael Lopez, Phaidra Yunker, Nicholas Zeman

-character drama about an artist's suicide