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“What a powerful tribute to Andrea
and what a radical feminist
motivator/mobilizer you have made.”
“Interweaving the last on-camera interview Andrea gave in her life with excerpts from her memorial service and a rally speech gives your documentary a wonderfully moving dimensionality: It becomes at once personal and public, living and remembered.”
– John Stoltenberg
“In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea was one of them.”
– Gloria Steinem
“PHYLLIS”, whose once successful theatrical career is long past, sits alone in her elegant bedroom, sipping on cocktails as memories of her childhood in Mississippi, love affairs and glamorous parties in New York, drift in and out of focus.
Her good sense of humor and charm starts to fade as she recounts disappointments in her marriage and her struggle to regain her ‘rightful place in society’.
Although PHYLLIS is determined to convince an unseen listener that she has no regrets, tender memories are overshadowed by a dark anger and the painful fragility beneath her proud defiance is laid bare.
“SHADOW MAN” – a short film written and directed by Roberta Pyzel, puts a human face on the subject of justice.
Ricky, a small-time drug dealer, in prison with a 25 year to life sentence for a violent crime he did not commit, meets with Ms. Davis, a cynical court appointed lawyer, and as he tries to convince her to file an Appeal on his behalf, his vulnerability touches her deeply, drawing her back into the struggle for justice that she had abandoned long ago.
STARRING:
PASCAL ARQUIMEDES
AUDREY WOODS
“Pascal Arquimedes and Audrey Woods are uniformly exceptional, utterly natural…SHADOW MAN grip(s) the viewer from the outset.”
– John Smistad, THE MOVIE BLOG.
PART I: MEMORIAL SERVICES
PART II: SEX
PART II: DENIAL
PART IV: ENLIGHTENMENT
“Across the morning sky,
all the birds are leaving
Ah how can they know
it’s time for them to go?
Before the winter fire,
We’ll still be dreaming
I do not count the time
Who knows where the time goes?
Who knows where the time goes?”
– Sandy Denny
A musical meditation…
“Shooting Stars has universal significance. It leads the viewer to sense his or her own mortality [and to experience] profound feelings of appreciation for life.”
– The Cape Codder
“The painful honesty captured in the film is effectively brought forth as [it] flip-flops between normal, day-to-day issues and the complexities heaped upon the men by AIDS… Most members of the group agreed that being diagnosed with AIDS was like a ‘wake-up call.’ ‘It makes you finally deal with living.'”
– The Provincetown Advocate
“The great value of Shooting Stars lies in its unsentimental, humane, surprisingly humorous, and deeply touching illustration of the benefit of being involved in an AIDS support group.”
– A & U (America’s AIDS Magazine)
“A touching profile.”
– New York Native
