UPDATE: April 16

We recently locked picture on PERSEPHONE and continue to make progress with post production.

On April 17, Jeremy Jones and Spencer Hutchings of BCDF Pictures will be engineering and recording part of the score, written by Gilles Malkine. The session will feature a string ensemble featuring local talent: Rob Murphy (viloin) Siobhan Solberg (viola) Ling Kwan (cello) Lou (string bass) and Marisa Trees (flute).

After April 23, another recording session is being scheduled with David Baron at Edison Music. Two more scores will be recorded. ENTRY TO HADES featuring Ling Kwan (cello) and Robin Ludwig (slide guitar). DRIP, written by Adam Rejto will also be recorded and features Adam (12 string guitar) and Ling Kwan (cell).

These original recording will be mixed and added to two songs that have already been recrded: JACK OF HEARTS by Gilles Malkine (available on his new album TIME DOG) and QUEEN OF THE NIGHT by Chris Stein.

In addition to recording music, we are beyound thrilled to announce that Wyatt Sprague is coming on board as our sound effects and dialogue editor. Wyatt's credits include a few films that may be familiar to most including The Devil Wear Prada, The Aviator, Brokeback Mountain, The Big Lebowski.

Once all the music, sound effects and dialogue are prepared, the audio elements will make their way to CA Sound Inc. to be mixed by Coll Anderson, whose credits include Union Square, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Catfish, Restrepo

Meanwhile, Jeremy Newmark of BCDF Pictures will go through each shot in the film to color correct with DP Bryan Cloninger.

All the elements will then return to editor Chad Smith of Remote Access Post for some final editing including special fx and credits. Once done, we can order some master HD tapes. By May, we hope to have a finished film ready for submission to film festivals across the world.

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THE STORY

The short film PERSEPHONE is a modern retelling of the Greek myth. It's a story of divorce and how two parents cope to control their most beloved daughter just as she is growing into a woman.

Demeter is portrayed by Academy-Award winning actor Melissa Leo (The Fighter, Frozen River, 21 Grams). She rules over the gardens and all the land at Mount Olympus. The story begins on a perfect day in August. Demeter has gathered her brothers Zeus (the county executive) and Poseidon (who's usually sailing off to some island in his yacht) with a few friends for her daughter Persephone's sixteenth birthday.

Persephone, portrayed by Lindsay Andretta (Far From Heaven) is not cooperating with her mother's plans. As a rebellious teenager, she would rather be anywhere but at home at Mount Olympus and she refuses to dress according to her mother's wishes. She steals away to the arboretum and looks out over the River Styx yearning to travel and explore life away from the trappings of home.

Hades (Gilles Malkine) Demeter's ex-husband makes matters worse. He arrives at Mount Olympus in his red convertible after years of estrangement, for his daughter's birthday celebration. When he learns about her yearning to be elsewhere, he hatches a plan to take her away.

Hades surreptitiously steals away with his daughter across the River Styx to his estate in the underworld. There, she discovers a world filled with costumes, masks, color, temptation and spectacle. Hades spoils her with anything she wants. Persephone enjoys the power she has in the underworld but she starts to miss her mother and the beauty of Mount Olympus.

Demeter is tormented by her daughter's disappearance. She suspects Hades, but is unable to find any recourse. Her distress and anger are evident as summer ends. The trees lose their leaves and the earth is enveloped in snow and ice.

Zeus realizes that he needs to help his sister recover her daughter. He sends his brother Poseidon to the underworld to broker a deal with Hades - they will share custody.

When Persephone is reunited with Demeter, summer has returned in all its glory but as the story comes to an end, we see Hades driving towards Mount Olympus. The trees have turned orange and red. He is coming back to take his daughter Persephone, whom he has made Queen of the Underworld - but she has other ideas."




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