- published: 08 Jul 2006
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Moonshine is a 2006 film written and directed by Roger Ingraham. It was chosen to screen at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2006. It was made on a $9,700 budget including the purchase of a 24p digital camera (Panasonic DVX100). Pre-production took around two years.
This movie was Roger Ingraham's first, and is a vampire story based in his hometown of Stafford Springs, Connecticut. Production was 22 days long, with the film containing many landmarks of Stafford. The budget was kept so low largely in part due to the help of the locals, with many citizens of Stafford helping by donating cars for car crash scenes, and with even the town police helping out with the movie.
The plot of the movie revolves around the disconnection of the protagonist as he suffers the cancer of his mother and the paralysis of his father. After taking a tedious, dead-end job with a chain-smoking manager who regards her employees with disdain, the protagonist eventually takes matters into his own hands, and falls into a horrific chain of events he never thought possible.
Floating in the everglades
Faces lit in sun
A moon that lights a thousand ways across
Is company for one
Ooh won't you come back to me
Ooh won't you shine out for me
Falling down from grace
In houses made for one
Holding matches 'til they burn away
Ashes to the wind
Ooh won't you come back to me
Ooh won't you shine out for me
Only you, it's only for you
Always true
But time is passing by
Only you
Always you
But every time we cry
We wave the sun goodbye
Moonshine
Desolate the renegades
Poisoned tongues persuade
Take the hand that carried you above
Oceans to the grave
Ooh won't you come back to me
Ooh won't you shine out for me
Tear yourself, you tear yourself....
Going over every minute every second in your mind
Turning over catching fragments of a life before you die
Going over every second, every minute left behind...
It's only for you
Always true
But time is passing by
Only you, always you
But every time we cry
We wave the sun goodbye