The Chair's Workshop Presents....
"THE NORMALS"
DIRECTED BY KEVIN CONNORS
WRITTEN BY CHRIS CIANCIMINO
a feature length table reading
Wednesday, November 11th @ 6:30 PM, Room 1027
Based on the novel by David Gilbert, "The Normals" is a dark comedy
about human clinical drug trials at a major pharmaceutical company.
Kevin Connors
A graduate of Brown and NYU's Tisch Film program, Kevin has been
writing, directing and producing short films for many years.
His short films credits include "Mini Mall Minivan" about a woman who
leaves her baby in the car on a hot summer's day and most recently
"Chicken Pox".
His first feature credit came as producer of "Brief Interviews With
Hideous Men", written and directed by John Krasinski and based on the
book by David Foster Wallace.
Chris Ciancimino
A graduate of the University of Manchester and NYU's Tisch Film
program, Chris has been working in the independent film industry for
the last 10 years.
Previously Head of Development for UK production company Portobello
Pictures (Kolya, Birthday Girl, The War Zone),
Chris was commissioned to write the adaptation of David Gilbert's
novel "The Normals" and is now a partner in Woodshed Entertainment. As
a writer and director,
Chris made a number of short films, his latest, "The Edge of Town",
won a Fotokem award for best screenplay and was officially selected
for the Woodstock Film Festival 2008.
Chris recently became a member of the Writer's Guild of America.
Synopsis:
The story centers around everyman Billy Schine; aimless Ivy League
Graduate, knee-deep in dept, with no career and a mother suffering
from some kind of expensive mental disorder.
With a debt collector hot on his trail, Billy enrolls in a clinical
drug trial to make a quick buck. Carted out of New York City with a
busload of oddballs, Billy and the rest of the guinea pigs,
affectionately referred to as "Normals", arrive at a hidden research
facility somewhere Upstate. When not popping pills, being drained of
blood, proded poked and color-coded, they spend their days and nights
sneaking around, sleeping around, plotting the destruction of "The
Facility" and driving each other crazy. As the test drags on, just
being there takes its toll, and tensions build until the dam finally
bursts. Billy starts to realize that there is no such thing as
"Normal".
One part comedy of error, one part failed love story, The Normals is
and examination of what it's like to make money with your body whilst
losing your mind.
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Future Workshops
November 18th - Henry Selick, Director of "Coraline" and "The
Nightmare Before Christmas"
November 25th - NO CW during Thanksgiving Break
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For ideas, suggestions, questions etc., please email Liliana
Greenfield-Sanders at lgs248@nyu.edu
You may also visit the cinecity blog for this information: http://blogs.nyu.edu/blogs/jt42/nyugradfilmprogram/
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