Contact:
Darren Press: 845-868-3155
A Driving Lesson the movie, a new short film by May Sky Entertainment, is an Official Selection to the Great Lakes International Film Festival - Screening dates set for September 28-30, 2007
August 5, 2007 Stanfordville, NY: Darren Press and C. Fraser Press, co-founders of May Sky Entertainment have announced that A Driving Lesson is an official selection to the Great Lakes International Film Festival. Held in Erie, PA. Great Lakes is considered among the top 100 film festivals in the world and showcases the hybrid of filmmaking in the digital age. The A Driving Lesson screening will be held at The Roadhouse Theatre for Contemporary Art.
Set on a lovely autumn day, A Driving Lesson tells the story of what happened when a psychologist, Dr. Leslie Laurel, takes her daughter Brooke out for a driving lesson on a quiet country road. Unfortunately Leslie is unable to pry herself away from her cell phone and the needy patients on the other end, and Brooke is a teenager unable to pry herself away from her own adolescent exasperation. Typical mother daughter friction, until, Brooke hits a small animal, Leslie's patient begins talking suicide and silence is broken on the quiet country road when an elderly couple come barreling along in their Station Wagon.
A Driving Lesson features a highly decorated cast and crew including TONY nominated and EMMY Award winner Elaine Bromka, famous for her role as the mom in the film Uncle Buck, EMMY nominee Marge Redmond, veteran Broadway actor Paul Barry and newcomer Hannah Fordin,
“Nothing is less steady in life than relationships.” Says writer and director C. Fraser Press. “Navigating them, learning from them, honoring them is our lifelong journey. This is what I like to read about, to watch in a theatre and what I aim to write about.” Press further says, “I’ve been fascinated with small, unexpected moments, interruptions, in our lives…. this is what happens to all four of my characters entangled briefly on a still country road, they are noisy in their miscommunication, they are noisy in their humanity, they can’t seem to help leaving their mark.”
The husband and wife team of Darren and C. Fraser Press have collaborated before on numerous projects including the New York productions of the critically acclaimed one-woman show, Why we Don’t Bomb the Amish written/performed by C. Fraser Press and directed by Darren Press and Checkpoint, a play written/directed by Darren Press featuring C. Fraser Press.
May Sky Entertainment is a new production and development company with the dual focus of creating quality, meaningful films and other entertainment content, and, initiating and operating social programs aimed at benefiting individuals considered socially, emotionally and/or physically at-risk. During production, selected participants will be assigned mentors by May Sky Entertainment and will participate in an on and off-set program that uses the specific themes and ideas of the particular film as a core to a curriculum.
May Sky Entertainment is a division of May Sky Inc.
For more information, please call:
Darren Press
May Sky Inc.
845-868-3155
dpress@mayskyinc.com
And visit:
adrivinglesson.com
mayskyinc.com
A Driving Lesson: Life is a crash course
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