MISS MYSTIC :
A film-noirish supernatural thriller with a twist
(Think, like, Freaky Friday meets Double Indemnity!)
(Now in the Promotion/Distribution and Film Festival stage)
WORLD PREMIERE August 28,
2004 at the historic Empire Arts Center
THEATRICAL SHOWCASE September
17-21, 2004, Empire Arts Center
FESTIVAL SCREENINGS: November
13, 2004, October 22, 2006
WINNER: · “Best Feature”
¹ Forx Film Fest 2004
Grand Forks, ND
HONORABLE MENTION:
Sub Rosa Studios B-Movie Film Fest 2005
Syracuse, NY
OFFICIAL SELECTION:
It Came From Lake Michigan Horror/Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film Fest 2006
Racine, WI
CATCHPHRASES:
Secrets can kill you!
Trading places can be murder!
LOGLINE:
A teenage girl is astounded to learn
the truth about her parents, but she’s in for a bigger shock when her eccentric
fortune-teller grandmother decides to swap bodies with her, permanently!
SYNOPSIS:
Katrina, an eccentric old fortune
teller known as “crazy Katy,” proves to her brother Rodric that the
supernatural powers she claims to have are real. Shortly after she tells him
the planets predict a surprise, he literally bumps into a long-lost niece he
never knew existed. Then Katrina uses an obscure herbal potion to switch bodies
with the teenage girl, Alyssa. Alyssa in Katrina’s body must convince her
younger brother Freddy what happened. Then the pair try to devise a plan to
change her back, enlisting the aid of a waitress interested in the occult.
Meanwhile, in Alyssa’s body, Katrina plots with Rodric to kill the old lady so
there will be no threat that the girl might reclaim her own body. Throughout
the process, past family relationships come up that complicate all of their
motivations and call into question their true intentions.
A digital motion picture
Written, Produced, and Directed By
CAST (speaking roles):
Katrina Lee Barnum
Alyssa Nicole
Nelson
Rodric Dave Nash
Freddy Jared
Kinney
Heather Sharon
Reinowski
PRODUCTION DETAILS:
An independent movie shot entirely on
location in North Dakota with a Sony digital video camera and a Bogen fluid-head
tripod, a Marantz digital audio recorder using an ElectroVoice cardioid and a
Shure omnidirectional dynamic microphone, and a Lowel lighting kit. Editing
performed with Final Cut Express and SmartSound Sonicfire Pro on an iMac with
two 250-GB LaCie firewire drives (the first drive became too full to use by the
time of the audio remix of the first roughcut).
Picture
format:
color
NTSC DV anamorphic 16x9 widescreen (1.78:1 aspect ratio)
Audio
format:
48kHz
PCM uncompressed .wav files
Locations include neighborhoods in
the south end of Grand Forks, a south end Grand Forks residence, a north end
Grand Forks apartment, an east end Lakota residence, downtown Grand Forks, the
North Dakota Museum of Art Coffee Shop, Altru Hospital, U.S. Highway 2 west of
Larimore, the Lakota cemetery, and a Devils Lake residential neighborhood.
Three teaser 1-sheets
Scenes 8, 13, 15, 16, 18, 20, 24,
29/31, 40
TRAILERS
and TV SPOTS (Quicktime mpg4 movie files)
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view at larger than the default Quicktime plug-in window,
right-click, choose “Save Target As,”
and open file with
your Quicktime player instead of your
browser.
Teaser 1
(320x180) (very low-bitrate
mono) 210 KB
:30 (medium bitrate
stereo) 3 MB
Trailer 1
(320x180) (low-bitrate mono) 1.4 MB
1:43 (medium
bitrate stereo) 9.6 MB
TV Spots
for the August 28th World Premiere at Grand Forks’ historic Empire
Theatre,
aired locally during Entertainment
Tonight and Good Morning America
:29 each (low-bitrate mono)