“LATE BLOOMER” SELECTED FOR THE RHODE ISLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ‘Downtown Cult Hit’ From New York City Transformed Into A Compelling, Dark, & Humorous Short Film Directed By Craig Macneill
NEW YORK August 11, 2004 — North lake Films is pleased to announce that Late Bloomer, the new short film by emerging director Craig Macneill and winner of the Audience Award for Best Short Film at the Lake Placid Film Festival, has been selected for the 2004 Rhode Island International Film Festival.
Craig was inspired to make โLate Bloomerโ while shooting a documentary on the film’s writer, Clay McLeod Chapman, star of the long-running off-Broadway sensation The Pumpkin Pie Show that has been called a โdowntown cult hitโ by Time Out New York.
In Late Bloomer, one boy discovers that something strange is happening in Miss Lovecraft’s seventh grade sexual education class โ” something much darker than the normal curriculum. The film will screen at the Columbus Theater prior to the feature film American Dancer: Wednesday Aug 11th, 1:00pm
Director Craig Macneill is a based in New York, where he has been building a career as a writer and director of films since graduating from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1999 with a degree in film production.
Playwright and storyteller Clay McLeod Chapman has seen his short fiction transposed to the stage for over a decade, produced in Romania, Scotland, Ireland and in the U.S. At the age of 26, Clay has published a collection of short stories, Rest Area (Hyperion Press, 2002), a novel entitled Miss Corpus (Hyperion Press, 2003), and been selected by The New Yorker as the featured emerging author for its 2003 โReading Glassesโ series.
The film score for Late Bloomer was composed and performed by One Ring Zero. The band has shared billings with pacesetting performers and musicians such as Cibo Matto; Medeski, Martin, and Wood; The Magnetic Fields; Thurston Moore; and The Roots.
Now in its eighth year, the Rhode Island International Film Festival, cited as one of the top ten film festivals in the United State, celebrates the independent spirit in film and has become a haven for independent filmmakers throughout the world.
Craig Macneill and author Clay McLeod Chapman will be at the Festival and available for interviews. To schedule an interview or request a copy of the film, please contact Craig Macneill at 646.765.6806 or visit www.northlakefilms.com
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