- published: 15 Mar 2015
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David Hoffman is one of America’s veteran documentary filmmakers. During his 40-year career, Hoffman has made five feature-length documentaries including King, Murray, an experimental feature film about a Long Island salesman who goes to Las Vegas on a junket to gamble with other high rollers. King, Murray was the winner of the Critics Award at The Cannes Film Festival. Other feature films include: Earl Scruggs: His Family and Friends, starring Scruggs with Bob Dylan, Doc Watson, and The Byrds; Sing Sing Thanksgiving, a concert feature film at Sing Sing Prison in New York with B.B. King, Joan Baez and others; and It’s All Good, a film chronicling the lives of two aggressive rollerblade teams in New York City and Los Angeles that are competing for a national prize.
David Hoffman was born in New York, New York and raised in Levittown, Long Island by parents H. Lawrence and Eve Hoffman. Hoffman's father was an illustrator and teacher at Cooper Union and his mother was a public speaker. Although his initial career path was as a professional musician, when offered the chance to play for the Minneapolis Symphony (today known as the Minnesota Orchestra), Hoffman decided to venture into storytelling as a filmmaker. At the time the handheld 16 mm camera had just come into prominence in documentary filmmaking, largely as a result of the Maysles Brothers, and Hoffman picked up a used one and began to make movies. Because of his background it was no coincidence that his first films were about musical themes, and at age 24 he was recognized by the United States Information Agency (USIA) as one of the ten best young filmmakers in America.
Actors: Alex Russo (actress), Jerry Pietrala (actor), Richard Phillis (actor), Kris Leiter (actor), Christine Magda (actress), Heidi Lewandowski (actress), Denny Castiglione (producer), Denny Castiglione (actor), Al LaFleur IV (actor), Devin Long (editor), Keopaseuth Sengsourichanh (actor), Devin Long (producer), Montel Bush (actor), Sandhya Chandel (actress), Adrian Denzel (actor),
Plot: Born of French Creole parents, Renee Arceneux invested her entire life into her struggling security software company, Arceneux Analytics. Now she finally is about to receive the break that will make her wealthy beyond her wildest imagination. However, a lethal strategy to save an old friend from a brutal enemy threatens everything she stands for and everyone around her.
Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller,Actors: Steve Arons (actor), Juliette Fairley (actress), Chyna Layne (actress), Rayan Lawrence (actor), Ramel Sherman (director), Shevy Gutierrez (actor), Ramel Sherman (producer), Ramel Sherman (writer), La Rivers (actress), Kamal Robinson (actor), Mike May (editor), Torre Reigns (actor), Justin Noto (actor), David Roberts (actor), Emily Allen (actress),
Plot: After the United States Government gets word of a potential bird flu virus, H5N1, they ban all blacks from eating chicken as a preventive measure. This is a story of how Americans react to ludicrous lies and deception delivered by our government. It's also a commentary and satirical expose of the social dynamic that exists in this country. In light of the ban, this short film will show how cultural norms, stereotypes are promulgated by mass media and how American society responds. This will come from the very tool we get most of our information on, the television. Exactly what would it take for us to actually make a change? More importantly, how would it affect what you saw on television and how will you be affected by it? This is the world of "Ordinance H5N1".
Keywords: chicken, government, ordinanceActors: Nehemiah Persoff (actor), Rue McClanahan (actress), Hal Holbrook (actor), Cloris Leachman (actress), David Greene (director), Eli Wallach (actor), Ann Roth (costume designer), Julie Harris (actress), Stephen McHattie (actor), Mike Kellin (actor), Matthew Cowles (actor), Kenneth Utt (producer), Nancy Hopton (miscellaneous crew), Herbert Brodkin (producer), Don Scardino (actor),
Plot: Comfortable New York suburbanites Arthur and Gerrie Mason discover one night that their seemingly perfect 16-year old daughter, Maxie has been tripping on LSD. Arthur, a smug, bullying braggart, immediately suspects his 17-year old (long-haired) son, Artie of supplying the drug to his sister, and immediately kicks him out of the house. Whereupon (suitably) confused Harris runs next door to seek advice from high school principal David Hoffman whose wife, Tina is an alcoholic, and whose son Sandy has his own problems. Very sensibly, he advises love and understanding on the part of the parents, which all but goes out the window when Maxie confesses she has been tripping for quite a while now, is also sexually active and on the pill. Meanwhile, she just keeps getting worse--she's found by her father high on cocaine and in bed with a biker. From there, it's straight to family therapy where, among other things, it's revealed that Dad is having an affair with his lusty secretary and Mom knew it all the time. After another lamentably useless therapy session, the Masons decide to throw a party which comes to an abrupt halt when one of the hired musicians is discovered puffing pot. Maxie then gets hold of more LSD, does a nude dance on her lawn and trips herself into a mental hospital. The sight of her near-catatonic daughter in this horrible place drives Mom right to bed, where she remains until the film's climax.
Keywords: based-on-tv-movie, drug-dealer, drugs, extramarital-affair, independent-film, lsd, parent-child-relationship, psychiatric-hospital