looking for palladin

A MONTEREY MEDIA PRESENTATION
PINE HILL PRODUCTIONS AND TOUSI PRODUCTIONS
IN ASSOCIATION WITH MAYA CINE DIGITAL, S.A. FULL MOON ANGEL CINE INDEPENDIENTE
PRESENT
LOOKING FOR
PALLADIN
GOLDEN GLOBE® NOMINEE
BEN GAZZARA
DAVID MOSCOW
ACADEMY AWARD® NOMINEE
TALIA SHIRE
PEDRO ARMENDARIZ JR.
ANGELICA ARAGON
AND
VINCENT PASTORE
ROBERTO DIAZ GOMAR THE MORALES BROTHERS LUIS ARGUETA
ROBERT YOUNGS JOAM SOLO MICHELLE MANTEROLLA
JERRY CARLSON BAHMAN SOLTANI TUTI FURLAN
Written & Directed by: Andrzej Krakowski
Produced by: Mahyad Tousi
Executive Produced by: Majka Elczewska
Co-Produced by: Andrzej Krakowski, Mendel Samayoa, Jerry Carlson, Babak Rassi
Line Producer: Ely Fenner
Edited by: Babak Rassi
Cinematography by: Giovanni Fabietti & Alberto “Chak” Chaktoura
Production design by: Jorge Rossi, Rene Bustamente
Costume Design by: Jennifer Mielke
Original Music by: Joel Dancyger, Jim Skinger, Alan Kushan
Runtime: 115 Minutes
© MMIX LOOKING FOR PALLADIN, LLC
MPAA RATED R
Synopsis
Arrogant Hollywood talent agent, Josh Ross (David Moscow) is sent to
Guatemala to find Oscar-winning actor Jack Palladin (Ben Gazzara).
Having never met, the search is emotionally complicated as the longtime retired star was once married to Josh’s late mother. Josh’s
contempt for the ‘old’ actor mirrors his comedic distaste for the local
community whose help he desperately needs to find him. What he
hopes will be a quick and lucrative deal turns into a soul-searching
journey for both as the star and his estranged son must confront the
past they had forsaken.
Reviews “The film is absorbing and offbeat; a gem! It is always a treat to see Ben Gazzara in a movie.” – Jeffrey Lyons, KNBC & Movies and More Radio “Looking For Palladin was a breath of fresh air. It deserves to be seen by the masses. And, hopefully, it will. It centers on real people and their introspective on the importance and appreciation of relationships and family.” -­‐ FilmThreat “Looking for Palladin is a small movie with a big, big actor. Ben Gazzara proves once again why he’s endured as one of the screen’s most popular and powerful performers. The cinematography beautifully captures the dramatic hues of the gorgeous textiles, shifting moods and architectural splendors of Guatemala. Some of the writing is excellent; the scene in which Palladin relives the night his wife (and the boy’s self-­‐centered, indifferent mother) died in his arms is as good a description of love and death as I’ve ever heard onscreen.” – Rex Reed, The New York Observer “Local color has rarely been more colorful than in Andrzej Krakowski’s resplendent Guatemala-­‐
set outing, “Looking for Palladin.” Genial showcase for Ben Gazzara which the helmer renders with warmth and flair.” -­‐ Variety “Ben Gazzara gives a big hearted, bravura performance.” – Marshall Fine, Hollywood and Fine.com “Andrzej Krakowski has crafted a truly remarkable drama that serves as a high point for both Ben Gazzara and David Moscow’s careers. They make a lofty premise seem entirely plausible and human. ” – MovieWeb Magazine “Ben Gazzara’s portrayal of Jack Palladin lends critical weight to Andrzej Krakowski’s Looking for Palladin” -­‐ The New York Times “This one will make you think about what’s really most important in your life. Hey-­‐ a movie that just makes you THINK is worth the price of admission!!!” – Shelli Sonstein, Clear Channel “If you had been looking for this fantastic piece of comedy then you need not to look any further.” – MovieWatchList.com “This film has been richly awarded and highly recommended, so if you’re in the mood to be moved this weekend, go for this one.” – Audrey Brown, Five Sprockets “Brilliant acting and the script has some wonderful dialogue.” – Mike Boyd, Festival Daily “Here’s a movie that’s got it all: a compelling story, an unforgettable location, genuine stars and a real message. [...] Looking for Palladin, which also stars Talia Shire and Vincent Pastore, is a tonic to the spirit.” – Maine Int’l Film Festival “Well-­‐made, good film I recommend to go and see without any hesitation.” – Live Journal, Moscow Simply put, Looking for Palladin is a gem, an instant classic; and audiences of all ages are embracing it. . It is also exceptionally entertaining and moving, and unquestionably universally appealing.” – China Confidential *CHICAGO LATINO FILM FESTIVAL* “This reporter was privileged to have been present for Sunday night’s screening at the 25th Chicago Latino Film Festival, the largest, oldest, and most influential Latino film festival in the U.S. Well over 200 people attended the screening. [...] To describe the reception as tremendously positive is to understate it—seriously. Audience members who hail from Guatemala (and there were many) had tears in their eyes as they praised the picture and participated in the post-­‐
screening Q&A session that went on till midnight. Said one such audience member: “I have never seen my country shown so poetically and lyrically.” “A delightful Independent film that must not be missed. “Looking for Palladin" is one of those rare films that remind us why we fell in love with cinema in the first place.” – VideoViews.org “A recommended pick for public library DVD collections.” – Midwest Book Review CAST BIOS BEN GAZZARA (Jake Palladin) Few actors can boast that they have acted in films by Otto
Preminger (Anatomy of a Murder), John Cassavetes (five films), Joel and Ethan Coen (The
Big Lebowski), Spike Lee (Summer of Sam) and Lars von Trier (Dogville), to name a few. In
addition to an illustrious career in films, Ben Gazzara has enjoyed remarkable success in
theater and television as well. He won an Emmy and was nominated for three Golden Globes
and three Tony Awards. A New York-born Italian-American actor (born Biagio Anthony
Gazzara in 1930) and product of the famed Actors Studio, Mr. Gazzara recently starred in the
French production, Paris, Je Taime, which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival. He was
Brick in the original Broadway production of Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,
and has appeared in acclaimed revivals of Eugene O’Neill’s Strange Interlude, Edward
Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and, most recently, Clifford Odets’s Awake and Sing!
Television viewers have seen him on Arrest and Trial, Run for Your Life, The Name of the
Game, two Columbo television films, An Early Frost and Law and Order: Special Victims
Unit.
DAVID MOSCOW (Josh Ross) New York native David Moscow (born November 14, 1974)
began his career in 1986 on the TV series Kate & Allie, then rose to prominence as Young
Josh, Tom Hanks’ character before his transformation, in Big. The same year he appeared in
The Wizard of Loneliness with Lukas Haas and two short-lived TV series. Live-In and Living
Dolls. He was one of the featured actors in Disney’s musical, Newsies, and after a hiatus,
appeared in Hurricane Streets, River Red, and Restaurant with Adrien Brody. He returned to
television in Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane. Other film credits include Riding in Cars with Boys,
Just Married, Nearing Grace, and David & Layla. David has worked opposite such stars as
Drew Barrymore, Adrian Brody, Penny Marshall, Steve Zahn, Lorraine Bracco, Simon Baker,
Christian Bale, Rosie Perez, Jessica Alba, and in Looking for Palladin, Ben Gazzara, Talia
Shire, and Vincent Pastore. Social conscientious, David develops mixed income green
buildings in Harlem, New York.
TALIA SHIRE (Rosario), born April 25, 1946, is the youngest member of the famed Coppola
family. She briefly attended the Yale School of Drama but left New Haven for Hollywood,
where she appeared in a series of Roger Corman films. In 1970, she married composer
David Shire. After asking her brother Francis for a screen test for The Godfather, she was
cast as Connie, the young sister of the Corleone family. Her portrayal earned her an Oscar
nomination as Best Supporting Actress, and the same part in the movie’s two sequels. In
1975, she began to work on her best known and most beloved role, Adrian Balboa, in Rocky,
for which she was Oscar-nominated as 1977’s Best Actress, taking home the New York Film
Critics Award, National Board of Review Award, and a Golden Globe nomination. Sylvester
Stallone tapped her again in 1979 for Rocky II, and she followed that with Prophecy, directed
by John Frankenheimer, and Old Boyfriends. Divorced from David Shire, she married
businessman/producer Jack Schwartzman in 1980. In 1983, she was Adrian Balboa again in
Rocky III and in Rocky IV in November 1985. With Rocky V and The Godfather: Part III, 1990
marked a year in which she returned to both of her most celebrated pictures. The sixth Rocky
installment, Rocky Balboa, premiered to much success in 2006. Talia Shire continues to
produce and appear in TV movies and feature films and has watched proudly as her two
sons, Robert and Jason Schwartzman, carve out their own acclaimed careers in the
entertainment industry. She is “Aunt Tally” to Nicolas Gage and Sofia Coppola.
VINCENT PASTORE (Arnie) was born in the Bronx, NY (July 14, 1945) and began show
business as a nightclub owner in New Rochelle. He credits Matt and Kevin Dillon for
convincing him to become an actor and is most recognizable as “Big Pussy” on HBO’s The
Sopranos. Other TV credits include NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice, The Practice, Everybody
Hates Chris, HBO’s Gotti, Witness to the Mob, Dellaventura, Ed, Less Than Perfect, Law and
Order, One Life to Live, Howard Stern’s Son of the Beach, Grounded for Life, and Repo Man
for TLC. Films include: The Hurricane, Shark Tale, This Thing of Ours, Deuces Wild, Walking
and Talking, True Love, Mickey Blue Eyes, Jerky Boys, Mafia, Serving Sara, Two Family
House, Made, Riding in Cars with Boys, Guy Ritchie’s Revolver, Pizza with Bullets, PJ,
Dough Boy and Code Blue. Theatre credits include On the Waterfront, Golden Boy, Painting
X’s on the Moon, and Pulp. Vincent recently made his Broadway Debut as “Amos Hart” in the
Tony Award winning Chicago. Mr. Pastore hosts "The Wise Guy Show" on Sirius Satellite
Radio's Raw Dog Comedy channel.
PEDRO ARMENDARIZ JR. (Chief of Police), the son of the famed Mexican actor Pedro
Armendariz, is a renowned and celebrated actor in his own right, having appeared in over
200 films and television productions in a career that began in the late ‘60s. Early films
included westerns with many American stars. A considerable number of films followed in
Mexico, where he was a leading man, and in Europe. He can be seen in such Englishlanguage films as Licence to Kill, The Old Gringo, Before Night Falls, The Mexican, Original
Sin, The Crime of Padre Amaro, John Sayles’s Casa de los Babys, and Once Upon a Time in
Mexico, among others. He has even played himself in ten Spanish-language productions,
has produced a number of television series, and has received much recognition in Mexico for
his roles in La Ley de Herodes and Su Alteza Serenisma.
ANGÉLICA ARAGÓN (Helen) is a Mexican actress of telenovelas and such films as Dune, A
Walk in the Clouds, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights and the blockbuster Spanish-language film
Sexo, Pudor y Lágrimas. The daughter of composer Ángel Espinosa “Ferrusquilla,” Angélica
was raised in family of intellectuals. She attended The Modern American College, The Sierra
Nevada School and The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA) for almost
seven years. She also lived in India where she studied at The National Dance Academy and
the Kerala Kelandam Dance School. Back in Mexico, she joined the ranks of Televisa and
made several telenovelas in the 1980s and 1990s while she acted in films such as Toy
Soldiers with Tim Robbins, The Evil That Men Do with Charles Bronson, and Dune. At the
age of 44, she obtained a role on the second telenovela of new station TV Azteca, titled
Mirada de mujer (A Woman’s Glance) portraying a woman who is neglected by her husband
and finds love in the arms of a younger man. The telenovela was a big success, and she
appeared in its sequel Mirada de mujer: El regreso. Angélica appeared in Bella, which won
the People’s Choice Award at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival. She has recently
worked as a theater director in Mexico City.
MICHELLE MANTEROLA (Mercedes) is a relative newcomer to international cinema. Michelle
is the sister of Mexico’s singing star Paty Manterola. She was a guest star in the Univision
series Al Filo de la Lay (“At the Edge of the Law”).
THE MORALES BROTHERS (Sammy and Jimmy) are the most popular comic duo in
Guatemala. They write, direct, produce their own films and television shows. Some of their
characters, such as Nito y Neto, have become part of Guatemalan folklore. Their films Nito Y
Neto En La Misteriosa Herencia, Nito Y Neto Detectives Por Herror, and Manzana Guena en
Noche Guena have outgrossed many Hollywood pictures in their native country.
ROBERTO DIAZ GOMAR (Ed) is one of Guatemala’s most successful film and theater actors
and has a multi-talented artist who originally studied legal and social sciences. In the 1960s
and 70s, he founded and worked with activist and experimental theatre groups that were in
conflict with Guatemala’s prevailing political leadership. An assassination attempt on his life
(he survived because the assassins confused him with his twin brother) led him to leave the
country and live in Spain, where he appeared in numerous European films and plays. He is
also a writer, animator, teacher, and director. He returned to Guatemala in 1998, and is part
of the growing film business there.
ANDRZEJ KRAKOWSKI (Writer/Director/Co-Producer) was born in Warsaw in 1946. One of
the youngest, if not the youngest, students to the famed Polish National Film School in Lodz,
Andrzej studied – alongside his childhood friend Krzysztof Kieslowski – under several
prominent film directors and worked as an intern assistant to Andrzej Wajda during the
making of “Ashes”.
Attacked in the press after the March ’68 student demonstrations, Krakowski was
unexpectedly offered a scholarship in Hollywood. Shortly after his arrival in the U.S., he was
stripped of his Polish citizenship and forbidden to return.
While Krakowski began learning English, his father’s old friend and protégé Roman Polanski
began introducing him to the ways and names of Hollywood. In 1970, alongside David Lynch,
Terrence Malick, Paul Schrader and Jeremy Kagan, he became a producing, first auditor, and
then fellow at the American Film Institute. During this period he line-produced several short
films and two features for his associate AFI fellows: Terrence Malick’s “Lanton Mills”, Richard
Patterson’s “The Open Window”, Jeremy Kagan’s “Love Song by Charles Faberman” and
Oscar Williams’ “The Final Comedown”, launching careers of such actors as Ron Rifkin and
Billy Dee Williams. Some of those films eventually attained a cult status and are being taught
at American colleges as part of film curriculum.
Krakowski then joined YASNY Productions, Inc. as head of production, where among other
films he had green-lighted and supervised production of the 1976 Oscar nominated feature
documentary “California Reich”.
He continued producing films with his own Filmtel, Inc, including “Portrait of a Hitman”,
starring Rod Steiger and Jack Palance, and “White Dragon” with Christopher Lloyd and Dee
Wallace Stone. The latter was the first co-production between CBS network and a Polish
government owned studio “Perspektywa”, a successor to the studio led by Krakowski’s father,
“Kamera”. As – in a few short years – Filmtel grew from a small production company into an
international production and distribution conglomerate, Krakowski burst onto television scene
with such successful TV shows as “The Richard Simmons Show” (for 4 years #1 daily-strip
show) and Showtime’s “XIV International Championship of Magic”, hosted by the legendary
Tony Randall.
With time Krakowski has returned to his first love and today his screenwriting credits include:
“Triumph of the Spirit”, starring Willem Dafoe and Edward James Olmos, “Eminent Domain”,
with Donald Sutherland and Anne Archer, “Tides of War”, a vehicle for Ernest Borgnine and
David Soul, “Genghis Khan”, the most expensive Italian production to date, followed by
“Ogniem i Mieczem” (“With Fire and Sword”), the highest-grossing film in Poland, and
“Managua”, with Louis Gossett, Jr. and Assumpta Serna in the lead.
Facing the loss of his wife to breast cancer, Krakowski wrote, produced and directed a
feature-length documentary “The Politics of Cancer”, which received theatrical distribution in
the U.S., and were shown at the Cannes, Palm Springs and Santa Barbara Film Festivals.
Since then Krakowski has produced and directed several commercials featuring Geoffrey
Holder, a feature film based on a popular comic book “Campfire Stories”, which has been sold
to over 30 countries, a hit stage musical in Tokyo titled, “Felix The Cat’s Musical Journey” and
a feature-length docudrama “Farewell To My Country, chronicling the expulsion of the last
Polish Jews from their homeland in 1968.
Krakowski’s latest feature film is titled “Looking for Palladin” and was shot in Antigua,
Guatemala. The cast includes such veteran American actors as: Ben Gazzara, Talia Shire,
David Moscow and Vincent Pastore, as well as Latin Americans stars like Anjelica Aragon,
Pedro Armendariz, Roberto Diaz Gomar and the Morales Brothers.
Krakowski, as Executive Producer and Showrunner has currently completed the production of
a 10 episode dramatic TV series titled “We Are New York”, which was funded by the Mayor’s
Office of New York and is scheduled for broadcast in September ‘09.
MAHYAD TOUSI (Producer) is an Iranian-American filmmaker living in Brooklyn, N.Y. Born in
the U.S., he grew up in Iran amidst the revolution and the ensuing war with Iraq. He has
worked in 24 countries spanning five continents as a producer, director, and cinematographer.
Somewhat of an Indie maverick, Tousi has moved freely in multiple forms of motion pictures
and his work has been seen theatrically, on television, and in museums. Prior to Looking for
Palladin, his first last feature currently in distribution – “Marvelous” is a dark comedy starring
the Oscar Nominated actress Amy Ryan, plus an impressive ensemble of Gen-X thesps that
include: Ewen Bemner, Michael Shannon, Martha Plimpton, and Annabela Sciora.
Additionally, Tousi has worked on a number of award winning theatrical and broadcast
documentaries, most notably Some Assembly Required as part of the First Amendment
Project for the Sundance Channel and Court TV, and Farewell To My Country, a feature doc
also written and directed by Andrzej Krakowski, and Blindsight—winner at over twenty
international film festivals including AFI and the Berlin International Film Festival. Blindsight,
which was also short-listed for the Academy Awards, has been distributed internationally and
is currently in the theaters in the United States. Additionally his collaboration with Video Artist
Mika Rotenberg, entitled Cheese, is currently on display at the Whitney museum, as part of the
Biennial.
Tousi is the cofounder and executive director of BoomGen Studios, which develops,
streamlines, and champions content of significant artistic merit from the Greater Middle East
and its Diaspora—a hub for the motion picture, television, and new media industries.
BoomGen Studios aims to become the gateway to the Western world for talent from, and
creative material about, the Greater Middle East’s Boom Generation, which make up 75% of
this region’s population. Tousi studied filmmaking at NYU. He is a regular guest lecturer for the
MFA program at CCNY, New York University’s SCPS, and has appeared numerous times as a
speaker and panelist on social innovation through media. He is also currently in development
on his debut project as a writer/director—the narrative feature SILK, about the Heroin trade on
the famed Silk Road.
JERRY CARLSON (Co-Producer and actor as “Jerry” in film) A specialist in narrative theory,
global independent film, and the cinemas of the Americas, Professor Carlson is Coordinator of
Critical Studies in the Film & Video Program at The City College and a member of the doctoral
faculties of French and Film Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. He has lectured at
Stanford, Columbia, Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV (Cuba), the University of Paris, and
the University of Sao Paulo, among others. His current research is focused on how slavery and
its legacy in the New World have been represented in cinema. In addition, he is an active
producer, director, and writer. An Emmy nominated senior producer for City University
Television (CUNY-TV), he created and produces the series City Cinematheque about film
history, Canape about French-American cultural relations, and Nueva York (in Spanish) about
the Latino cultures of New York City. As an independent producer, his recent work includes the
Showtime Networks production Dirt, directed by Nancy Savoca, and Looking for Palladin. In
1998 he was inducted by France as a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques. He was
educated at Williams College (B.A.) and the University of Chicago (A.M. & Ph.D.).
REFLECTIONS ON LOOKING FOR PALLADIN
By Andrzej Krakowski
There is a subtle change taking place in our neighborhoods. It’s so subtle that it takes years for
it to become clearly defined and visible. A new family moves in down the street, a year later
another. We slowly forget the neighbors who lived in their houses before. What happened to
them? Before we know it and perhaps even sooner than that, it feels we’re surrounded by
young families with children. Since our own kids have grown and left, we no longer partake in
parents meetings, familial brunches in the park; slowly but surely we become marginalized and
pushed aside. Very often we find out that the same neighborhood that we helped make so
desirable now has become totally unaffordable for us. Then the departure becomes that much
more painful and dramatic.
A very similar process occurs in the film industry today. In the relentless chase for the young
audience’s pockets and minds, we – the baby boomers are being pushed aside. At a time in
our lives that we have become reflective about everything—our past loves, the choices we’ve
made, and the life trajectory that lies behind us—the film industry increases its rate of
explosions, car chases, and flying bullets.
At a time when we start addressing our own mortality, we are being served with an avalanche
of thoughtless killings, and special effect deaths. Yet gentler paced and more thought
provoking films, the same films that we would prefer not to watch when we were in our
twenties and thirties, have become attractive after fifty.
When I opened the newspaper this morning I noticed, at first happily, that the film industry has
been “saved.” We have almost “recovered to box office numbers of the previous years.” But
soon it became clear that the play on words was yet another well placed article to praise the
impressive success of a certain caped superhero in tights that I am glad to say neither my wife
nor I have anything in common with. No doubt the numbers were impressive, but as
consumers, we were not impressed. Where are our superheroes? Last I checked we- the
boomers had more numbers, money and time. Is our money not green enough? Didn’t we
define America’s movie culture and give Hollywood its cape?
We have reached a point in our lives when our values have changed; when loyalty and
friendship means more than money; when a structure in daily life is more attractive than
another exotic trip; when the insecurity of love, passion, and temptation are replaced by
devotion and a trustworthy companionship. Many years ago, after yet another failed
investment, my wife made a deliberate but passing comment, “When you buy toothpaste, you
choose the brand you like, don’t you? Why then–instead of trying to outguess everybody–don’t
you invest in a product you yourself use? There’s a strong possibility that there are thousands
of others that also like the same brand.”
That’s why I made Looking for Palladin. There is no sex or violence in it. There are not any
“good” people or “bad” people—“right” and “wrong.” I wanted to make a warm and entertaining
film about issues important to us, the baby boomers.
We have become a transient society, a culture of nomads. Instead of working to live, we live to
work. We pack and move following market trends and employment opportunities, leaving the
unwanted ballast behind, be it our parents or just friends. And who is the loser? Inevitably a
day comes when we meet again and look at our children, and they at us, and we think, “Who
are these strangers”? This is what Looking for Palladin is all about. It is a nostalgic piece about
lost opportunities, broken communication and misplaced values. Misplaced by all, us as well
as our children.
Film Festivals Cine Las Americas Film Festival – Austin – (USA) – (Official Selection)
Vina del Mar International Film Festival (Chile) – (Official Selection)
Cine World Film Festival – Sarasota (USA) – (Official Selection)
Seattle International Latino Film Festival (USA) – (Official Selection)
Cambridge International Film Festival (UK) – (Official Selection)
Culture&Cultures Film Festival (France) – (Official Selection)
Salento International Film Festival (Italy) – (Official Selection)
Lima International Film Festival (Peru) – (Out of Competition)
The Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival (Armenia) – (Official Selection)
Maine International Film Festival (USA) – (Official Selection)
Moscow International Film Festival (Russia) – (Official Selection)
Chicago Latino Film Festival (USA) – (Official Selection)
Guadalajara International Film Festival (Mexico) – (Official Selection)
Icaro International Film & Video Festival (Guatemala) – (Special Gala Screening)
Queens International Film Festival (USA) – (Best Feature Film Award, Best Director
Nomination)
San Luis International Film Festival (Argentina) – (Out of Competition)
Orlando Hispanic Film Festival (USA) – (Best Feature Film & Best Ensemble Cast Awards)
Napa Wine Country International Film Festival (USA) – (Best Production Co. Award)
Cinema South International Film Festival (Israel) – (Official Selection)
Monte Carlo Film Festival (Monaco) – (Official Selection)
Cartagena International Film Festival (Colombia) – (Gala Screening)
Gdynia Polish Film Festival (Poland)
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