CAST :
INDIA (Joe Lia) -
Joe grew up in Washington State, where he spent his childhood reading and making movies on an old camcorder. He started acting in high school and moved to Los Angeles to study film at the University of Southern California. There, he starred in and made a number of student films. Upon graduation in December 2003, he played a lead role in Everett Lewis' FAQs. Joe's upcoming feature films include Matt McUsic's, SHAMELOVE, and Guillermo Rodriguez's, THE SHADOWS.
DESTINY (Allan Louis) - Allan's most recent work includes the riveting post 9/11 production of ANTIGONE at South Coast Rep, directed by Kate Whoriskey. He was last seen in THE TEN COMMANDMENTS staring Val Kilmer. Allan also portrayed Booker T. Washington in the American premiere/1st national tour of RAGTIME and Hud in the Reprise! production of HAIR directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman and James Rado. Regional credits include A RAISIN IN THE SUN at the Milwaukee Rep, HAMLET and ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD with Florida Shakespeare, BLACK STAR LINE at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and THE EDUCATION OF RANDY NEWMAN at A.C.T. in Seattle. His film credits include THE TERMINAL, UNFORGETTABLE in which he portrayed Nat King Cole, FAQs, MEN CRY BULLETS and TEAR IT DOWN. Allan’s television appearances include NYPD BLUE, CITY OF ANGLES, MARTIN, SPARKS and The JAMIE FOXX SHOW. Allan has just completed a punk/ funk dance album entitled Radio with his band Superstar which is scheduled to tour Asia in the fall. Before moving to Los Angeles Allan called Chicago home and is honored to be working at the Barn Theatre. His motto is “Perform as though your life depended on it." Please visit
www.thesuperstar.us
SPENCER (Lance Lee Davis) - Lance Lee Davis was born in Singapore and grew up mostly in Arkansas.Prior to settling in Los Angeles he attended the University of East Angliain Britain and worked as a print and commercial model in Asia. As an actorhe has appeared in numerous stage productions, pilots, and independentfilms. In 2002, he founded his own production company, Epinephrine Filmworks. Recent feature film credits include 'Short Side of Nothing,''FAQ's,' and 'Good Chemistry,' a suspense drama which he also wrote and produced under the Epinephrine shingle.
QUENTIN (Joshua Paul) - Joshua Paul was born and raised in Fargo, North Dakota and a farm in a rural community in Minnesota about half an hour outside of Fargo. He has spent six years in Minneapolis, Minnesota where he began to truly find out what makes himself tick and what makes him happy. He has taken part in activities and occupations including piano, choir, dance, gymnastics, Tae Kwon Do, accounting and auditing, theatre, modeling, and film. His film credits include 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, and Testosterone.
ARI (Justin Meloni) - Justin has been acting since he was five years old, when he was cast as Nana the dog in an Orange County community theatre production of Peter Pan, his most prestigious accomplishment to date. After high school in Irvine, California, he flew to Boston to study acting at Boston University. He has been in LA since graduation pursuing acting and remains artistically active with Theatre West. With appearances in Cold Case and The Office, Justin looks forward to a long and fruitful career acting in Los Angeles.
MORE CAST BIOS COMING SOON!
CREW:
EVERETT LEWIS (Writer / Director / Editor) is:
One of the filmmakers who jumpstarted the Independent Film Movement back in the day (the day being 1989), with his film The Natural History of Parking Lots, which was a big international award winning black and white indie feature film made for peanuts and with nascent proto gay thematic content.
Whose film An Ambush of Ghosts divided audiences and critics (and the judges too), and won the cinematography prize at Sundance in '93.
The filmmaker whose subsequent films have mined, defined and laid tracks into the brand new, rife with opportunities 'queer cinema'.
The writer/director whose films: Skin & Bone and Luster have enjoyed wide international release, zillions of festival screenings, and heavy DVD and international cable release.
The guy who makes films who finally thinks he has a grasp on what the hell he's doing, which he represents in FAQs .
Finally bringing it all together (cinematography, story, acting, editing, music), with a team of extraordinarily talented collaborators to 'go where no man has gone before' and try to create a body of queer work, gay work in film, at a fervent time in our culture when politics are going backwards and ways and means of distibuting films are going crazy -- into phones and DVDs and over the internet -- the whole means of production and distribution are rife with opportunity to say things to a lot of people who were once hard to reach (and after watching the movies, like FAQs, are hopefully just hard).
Everett Lewis is some guy who wants you to watch the movies and engage in the dialogue called culture.
GAVIN KELLEY (Cinematographer) - First experimenting with cinema at the tender age of ten with a Fisher-Price PXL 2000 video camera, Gavin Kelly has since become an impassioned filmmaker and accomplished cinematographer. His formal education began in his “home town” at the University of California in San Diego, where he earned a Bachelor of Visual Arts, Media. Gavin then continued film studies at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television, recently graduating with a M.F.A. in Production. During his tenure at U.S.C. he served as Director of Photography on numerous thesis film projects, as well as professional music videos, commercials, and a feature film. Gavin has received the prestigious A.S.C. Charles B. Lang Heritage Award for Outstanding Cinematography, Honorable Mention, from the American Society of Cinematographers, a distinction that celebrates rising new talent in cinematography.
WILLIAM V. MALPEDE (Composer) -
Composer/Orchestrator William V. Malpede received his Graduate Certificate in Film Scoring from the prestigious USC Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television Program, and received his Bachelor's Degree in Music Business from Elmhurst College, Illinois. He has composed music for numerous independent feature films and has served as technical assistant and synth programmer to composer Christopher Young on the features URBAN LEGEND, RUNAWAY JURY, SOMETHING THE LORD MADE, and AN UNFINISHED LIFE. Originally from Chicago, William has toured extensively as a principal keyboardist with several Broadway National Tours including CATS, JOSEPH & AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT (Donny Osmond), MUSIC OF THE NIGHT (Melissa Manchester and Betty Buckley) and MAMMA MIA! and has appeared on several television shows including JESSE and THE WEST WING . William has composed original scores for the feature films DUMPED, ANGELS DON'T SLEEP HERE, DOG GONE LOVE, the award-winning short, GAY COPS: PRIDE BEHIND THE BADGE, and has co-written songs featured in the films THE INTERPRETOR and BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN. Current projects include orchestrations for recording artist JENNIFER NASH, orchestrations for the hit musical BARK!, release of the punk-funk electro album SUPERSTAR co-written with artist MZ A, and the original score for the feature, FAQs.
GARRET SCULLIN (Associate Producer/Music Supervisor) - Garret has worked on almost every Everett Lewis production since 1990; including SKIN & BONE, LUSTER, FAQS, AN AMBUSH OF GHOSTS, as well as a few that got away and some that will come in the future. Recently Garret has been the Music Supervisor for Fishegg Films on the documentaries STUNTWOOD: THE BIRTH, LIFE, AND DEATH OF A SKATEBOARD and IN THROUGH THE OUT DOOR, both of which premiered at the 2006 X-Dance Film Festival.
