PARALLEL LINES / Documentary

EUROPEAN PREMIERE

Directed by Allison Walsh

Produced by Melanie Walsh and Margaret LeJeune

CAST :

USA

The movie is listed in competition for the 2018 PAMA for :
– Best Documentary

PITCH : Parallel Lines tells the stories of Olga Perez, a formerly undocumented maid, and Chuck Foss, a former U.S. border patrol agent, who respectively live in the border towns of Juarez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas, and whose occupational histories would seem to put them at odds. But the stories Olga and Chuck share reveal a much more complex relationship between those who police the border and those who cross it, which also includes compassion, respect, and a shared daily existence.

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Director Biography – Allison Walsh

Allison Walsh is an artist and emerging documentary filmmaker. She combines her art disciplines to bring new life to the documentary stories she encounters. Walsh has a BFA in Painting and a BA in Spanish from Bradley University. Parallel Lines is Walsh’s first film, beginning in January 2017.

Thanks to all of you, the Paris Art and Movie Awards is going towards its 4th edition, set for June 2018 in Paris.

To all our partners, we thank you for your support and for believing in what we do at the PAMA.

To all the filmmakers, directors, producers, cast and crew of the films submitted… : YOU make the festival. We wanted to add a small stuff to your Christmas presents.

Please find below the e-book “193 Casting Directors on Twitter”, by Amy Jo Berman. You may have heard of it, here it is…

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Here is also a free FX package from Shutterstock you may have miss.

IRIDESCENCE

Best Dance Film 2017

After being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015, élodie turned her suffering and fears into a creative fight against the disease and the debilitating effects of the treatments used. Her latest work, Iridescence, is the personal story of her fight with cancer and the way she found to deal with the disease in a creative and hopeful manner. It’s also a way of giving back and handing on the positive vibes that she’s received from friends, family and strangers during the course of her disease.

‘There are many of us (patients, friends or family) fighting cancer with creativity. Composing, drawing, painting, writing, body art-ing etc., to prevent it from stealing our souls. So let’s share ideas and creations in order to inspire people around us, who in turn will inspire others.’
Elodie M.

Blog Les Cellules Créatives.

Director Eileen Byrne’s Biography

After her European baccalaureate at the European School Luxembourg, Eileen first studied theatre in Winchester (UK) and Munich before starting her film directing studies at the University of Television and Film Munich.

Since their childhood Eileen and Elodie have worked together on several theatre and film projects. They are currently developing their third feature film screenplay together. Iridescence is their first coproduction as director-dancer.

Frederick Butterfield has always been runner up to his twin brother Herman. When Herman becomes the world’s oldest man with a mere minute gap between them, Frederick finally sees an opportunity to be first place.

An animated film that talks about the issue of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation and their struggle to survive as they try to protect the water source into their small nation. Narrated by The Standing Rock Chairman.

This film, Revelation – the City of Haze, was the third animation short film wrote and directed by Mao Qichao.

A community of old men and park pigeons come together to help one of their own get through a great loss.