July 15th wins big at international film festival Virgin Spring Cinefest!!
Spring Valley, Aug 8, 2019 (Issuewire.com) - The third short film by independent filmmaker Kristian Comer of Rockland County New York, set to release later this winter, started its film festival run and boy did it start with a bang. Overall July 15th won 11 awards and was nominated for 11 more which included Best Director Kristian Comer, Best Actor J. David Brimmer, Best Actress Kristian Comer, Best Supporting Actor Carlo Darcelin, Best Supporting Actress Jessica Jones, Best Cinematography Bill Drummer and Eyiad Bidewy, Best Photography Michael Emmer and Eyiad Bidewy, Best Producer Patricia Maloney-Titland, James Comer, Peter Simpson, Kristian Comer, Alice M. Koziol, Rumman Chowdhury and Justin W. Cornell, Best Overall Short, Best Silent film and lastly Best Women's Film.
July 15th follows widower Stanley Stevenson on his way to celebrate the anniversary of the day he met his deceased wife Clara. Each year he goes back to the same spot, a bench in Washington Square Park, and eats the same sandwich, hot roast beef, he had that day. When he reaches the bench he finds a woman crying and decides to cheer her up. Between a hilarious banter of shared interests of food and love of New York, they develop a strong bond. July 15th deals with the theme of true love and how it is affected by a death. It's a silent film paying homage to love films that came before it and was completely shot in NYC.
It stars the brilliant talents of J.David Brimmer, Mario Bokara, Kristian Comer, Daniel Portela, Jessica Jones, Holly McMahon, Ayiesha Alizai Sadik, Brad Everett Gilliam, and Jor el Jordan.
It features the talents of Carlo Darcelin, James McEnroe, Melanie Rei Langworthy, Julie Han, Andrew Fokker Scourge Erb, Mariel Marino, Hyunju Yang, Steven Robinson, Mare Schell, Pauline Yang, Daniel Sarfatti, Pauline Yang, Cindy B Reed, Carla Mejia, Kay Gee, Kelvin Grullon, Nadia C Harmsen, Kaylin Lemchak, Chang Liu and Chrissy Castronuova.
And the extraordinary talented crew of Patricia Maloney-Titalnd, Bill Drummer, Eyiad Bidewy, Mariel Marino, Michael Emmer, Juan David Pinzon, Elizabeth Alvarez, Carla Mejia, Justin W. Cornell, Alice M. Koziol, Peter Simpson, Rumman Chowdhury, James Comer, Jesse Ortigas, J.T. Maguire, Freia M. Titland, Tristram Plummer, Sean Collishaw, Amanda Castro-Conroy, Maggie Comer, Sam Harps, Matt Hill, Matt Masiello, Mike Stalzer, Derek Tarson, Rosemary Slaby Witte, and Pauline Yang.
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