Under Fire: Scorched Summer of 2006:
Appleseed Entertainment assisted client I.D.E.A. reformulate this documentary about the effects of the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel on civilians in Northern Israel. We re-cut existing footage and brought in new material to more effectively tell the story.
Short film – drama. Official Selection LA Shorts Fest, Big Muddy Film Fest, Reel Women International Film Festival, HatcHfest and Sonoma Film Festival.
Synopsis
Time unfolds backwards in this lyrical tale of a love triangle with a twist. In it, a mature 19-year-old’s pregnancy forces her childish young mother to grow up, but is it too late?
Cast & Crew:
Lynne Moses – Writer, director, editor, producer
Starring – Oriana Oppice, Thomas Scott Stanton, Heidi Mokrycki
Andrew Balek – Producer
Ben Moses – Executive Producer
Aram Rappaport – Co-Producer
Thomas Scott Stanton – Co-Producer
John O’Shaughnessy – Cinematographer
Donn Wilkerson – Original score
Glen Hall – Production designer
Cary Cremidas – Editor
Michelle Zeitlin – Choreographer
Short film – black comedy. Shot in HD on the RED camera. Winner, Accolade Award of Excellence. Featured Film at Sonoma Valley International Film Festival, Official Selection at LA Shorts Fest, Broad Humor Film Festival and Salento Finebus Terre film festival in Italy. Watch the trailer.
Synopsis
To what extreme would the death of your beloved pussy drive you? When Rhonda believes her beloved cat, Mort, is dead, her encounter with Pierre, grief stricken over the death of his own darling cat, leads to confusion and even more death.
Cast & Crew:
Lynne Moses – Co-writer, director, editor, producer
Ben Moses – Co-writer, editor, executive producer
Starring – Elizabeth Perkins, Peter Story, David Goldman
Andrew Balek – Producer
Michael Fimognari – Cinematographer
Lynn Stuart – Production designer
Morgan Gross – Editor
Taking the Hill: The Warrior’s Journey Home
Produced footage for the feature documentary in association with American Trademark Pictures
Synopsis
Originally conceived as documentary exploring the phenomenon of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in veterans and the variety of techniques that have been developed to help those who suffer from this “hidden wound” of war. Note: Commercially distributed film significantly different than Ben Moses’ director’s cut.
Cast & Crew of footage contributed to film:
Ben Moses – Writer, Director, Editor, Producer
Lynne Moses – Producer
Starring – Don LaFontaine (Host/Narrator), Raul Reis, Sean Huze
William Paul McKay – Executive producer
Beverly Ozmun – Executive producer
Sanora Bartels – Associate producer
Carl Bartels – Cinematographer
Robert Crew – Original score
Michael Melahouris – Editor
Danielle Wheeler – Editor
French language short film with English subtitles – psychological drama. Shot in HD on the Canon 5D. Winner, Accolade Award of Merit. Official Selection, Women’s International Film Festival and LA Shorts Fest. Watch the trailer.
Synopsis
What if what you saw was not what you thought? This thought provoking film explores the implications of a girl’s interpretation of an event she witnesses as a child.
Cast & Crew:
Lynne Moses – Writer, director, producer
Starring – Louann Bruyant, Fleur Chabaud, Elodie Guesnet, Cyrille Thouvenin, Mathias Bessieres, David Rapon
Ben Moses – Executive producer
Suzanna Rosario – Co-producer
Florent Herry – Cinematographer
Christophe Henrotte – Original music and sound mix.
Sonja Bogdanofsky – Editor
Michel Moon – Production designer
Feature documentary made in association with the Moulay Hicham Foundation and Larry Diamond, author of “The Spirit of Democracy.” More at the film’s Official Site.
Synopsis: This film presents the inspiring and dangerous work of democracy activists in five countries around the world – Egypt, Malaysia, Ukraine Venezuela, and Zimbabwe. Ranging from a student leader in Venezuela to the opposition leader/Prime Minister of Zimbabwe to the former President of Ukraine, these courageous dissidents tell their compelling personal stories of struggle with the oppressive regimes ruling their countries.
Cast & Crew:
Ben Moses – Producer, Writer, Director
Amy Martinez – Producer
Christopher Pavlick – Line Producer/Production Manager
Jill Schneider – Associate Producer
Larry Diamond – Executive Producer
Lynne Moses – Executive Producer
Harris Done – Principal Cinematographer
Sharon Franklin – Principal Editor
Christopher Thomas – Composer
Principle Subjects:
EGYPT
Activist Ahmed Maher
Activist Esraa Abdel Fattah Ahmed
Opposition Leader Ayman Nour
MALAYSIA
Former Deputy PM and Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim
Former Prime Minister Mohamad Mahathir
UKRAINE
Former President Viktor Yushchenko
TV Journalist Svyatoslav Tsegoloko
TV Journalist Andriy Shevchenko
Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko
VENEZUELA
Student Activist Roberto Patino
ZIMBABWE
Prime Minister/Opposition Leader Morgan Tsvangirai
ADDITIONAL EXPERT:
Kim Campbell, former Canadian Prime Minister; Chair, World Movement for Democracy
In 2013, Yulia Marushevska was an idealistic graduate student.
Andriy Shevchenko, a former TV journalist, was an opposition member of parliament.
In their revolution,
her YouTube video “I Am a Ukrainian” went viral and
he had an impact out on the Maidan he’d never had inside Parliament.
Their filmmaker friend, Ben Moses, was there through it all,
chronicling this personal journey through a revolution.
Filming took place in Ukraine, the United States and Canada and the film had its festival debut in early 2016. It was formerly titled “I Am a Ukrainian: personal stories of a revolution.” Watch the trailer and see more at the film’s Official Website.
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Produced by Bonne Pioche (March of the Penguins).
French language live action feature. Original Title – À tous les vents du ciel. Based on the novel by Jean-Baptiste Destremau. Tragedy drives a French teenager to embrace chance as her guide when she runs away in South Africa and struggles to reconstruct her life.
Screenplay by Lynne Moses & Christophe Lioud.
Director – Christophe Lioud
A series of releases from a small but powerful new “international news operation” featuring Yulia Marushevska. Current events, celebration of Ukrainian culture and updates on the post-revolution reform efforts are aimed at the domestic Ukrainian audience and the English-speaking West. The team will produce short, 2- to 4-minute “video vignettes” in Ukrainian and English for distribution in Ukraine and around the world. To be established and produced by documentarian and former TV news producer Ben Moses with the cooperation and assistance of The Kyiv Post and the Odesa regional administration.
