Documentary / 38 minutes / 2018
Kinderhook
Send Your Demo Here Vol. 1
A 40-years-ago time capsule culminates in an intimate translation of what Jersey’s Own music scene was like in the 1970s.
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Original black-and-white video taken at the iconic Capitol Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey, is steeped in authenticity. The ambiance of live performance was the true essence of creative efforts by the band Kinderhook, legendary concert promoter John Scher, and his amazing stage crew and front office.
The 38-minute documentary premiered in the Music Legacy category at the 2018 Asbury Park Music+Film Festival in Asbury Park, New Jersey.
Feature narrative screenplay / Christina Kotlar
Alice in Movieland
An original screenplay inspired by real events
An impressionable, tech-savvy young woman searching for her identity falls into life’s rabbit hole at the dawn of the moving picture industry, testing the devilishly-guarded bastion of male chauvinism.
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“Art challenges the technology. The technology inspires the art.” — John Lasseter
Taking risks as a woman in a man’s world, Alice in Movieland shares the indomitable spirit of biopics of dynamic, accomplished women living their art—La Vie en Rose + Frida—challenging male-dominated realms as in The Queen’s Gambit.
As the bourgeois-repressed social order opened up at the turn of the century, artists and free thinkers joined industrialists to achieve their goals. Consequently, super-tech chick Alice Guy Blache arrives on the scene, influencing the likes of Picasso and Braque, impressing inventors and entrepreneurs—Eiffel and Einstein—while embarking on an unconventional woman’s journey launching a filmmaking industry with an upside-down, topsy-turvy, breaking-the-rules approach to life’s absurdities and scenarios.
