| Movie Project: Hard Times Hotel |
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Kerry is currently on writing, the new screenplay, Hard Times Hotel. The story is of a young painter, Katlyn as she travels around the world on a modern day pilgrimage to sacred places around the world. The main character discovers what is sacred about her life. Personal tragedies and sweet memories are uncovered as she reflects back to a time when she lived in the large house her father had built, called Hard Times Hotel, by family and friends.
Katlyn had moved home to be with her father after he was diagnosed with Bladder Cancer. Her mother was also ill with Graves disease at the same time and lived under the same roof as her father, stepmother and Katlyn. The unlikely coming together and healing of a painful history teaches Kat the valuable lessons of forgiveness, and healing through illness. The journey, which takes her to numerous sites around the world, connects her Mother Earth as a guide to recover from loss.
The artist will be working on completing the screenplay as she also continues to write her book, Mother Earth Speaks.
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| Movie Project: Free to Fly |
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Northern
Lights Productions, a small production company affiliated with Pioneer
Video Productions in Northfield, MA put out a call for screenplays
in the winter of 2002.
I submitted my screenplay, “Free to
Fly” and it was selected for production in the summer of 2003.
The Executive Producer, Michael G. Schena asked if I would direct
the film, I in turn asked life long friend, Gretchen Licata to be
a co - director and co - producer.
The three of us became a great
team, each playing numerous roles in this project.
We did a casting
call in the fall of 2003. Taping began in the spring of 2004 and
finished in the fall of 2004.
For more information obtaining a copy of the movie:
Contact Michael Schena from Northern Lights Production
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Synopsis
“Free
to Fly”, is a story about a young woman named Anna, who is
a lost soul in a lost society. A drinking and driving accident leaves
Anna with a slight limp and a big question about who she wants to
be. Anna drops out of college and moves back into her Mother’s
house to take up a job pumping gas at the local gas station. The
movie takes place in a small New England country town, where all
eyes are watching Anna with disappointment and pity. Anna has a
typical American family full of despair, lame and anger. Mary, Anna’s
mother, is a waitress at the local Diner, trying to hold her family
together. Anna’s Dad left them and doesn’t keep in close
contact. Her brother, James, is gone serving in the Army over in
a war she doesn’t believe in, and her younger sister is a
typical angry teenager. Anna feels like a bird in a birdcage. All
dreams and expectations feel as though dissipated when a chance
meeting with Hank, an old man who wears his deceased wife’s
hats around town, causes her to look at things from a different
angle. Their friendship provides a source of inspiration for themselves
and for those around them. Hank’s grandson, Ezra, from New
York City moves out to live with him, to “keep him out of
trouble.” Ezra and Anna would be great friends if only they
would find one another. The many intricate personalities and humorous
dialogue of the true New England characters weave together to make
a beautiful tale about love, family, art, self discovery, and finding
the freedom to fly.
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