THE PAPER CASTLE

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The Paper Castle is story about the friendship that is formed between a crippled old man and a sick little girl. The story takes place in a hospital, and as Joey the little girl is slowly on her way to recovery, Cliff the elderly man, is not. However, Joey needs to eat to make a full recovery--something she is not doing. That's when Cliff decides to use his skill as a children’s book author to help Joey feel better. Joey doesn't get a long with Cliff at first, and she draws crazy vines all over her pictures. Cliff decides to use paints and he's quite good. Joey sees this and out of jealousy she starts a paint fight. After the huge mess and a room full of laughs, the nurse takes their paints away and Cliff and Joey are left with only their crayons. And so, that very night, the two draw up a story together on paper--a story about a king and his castle, which comes to life in an animated fairy tale.

THE PAPER CASTLE was Directed by: Stephen Unger

ZoieFest 2004 presents Best Picture-Children's Category -- THE PAPER CASTLE

DIRECTORS BIO:


Director, Screenwriter Stephen Unger
Stephen Unger wrote and directed four short films while attending the University of Central Florida School of Motion Pictures. His award winning short Bittersweet Karma picked up best film honors securing the SDI Tech award as well receiving the prestigious Tampa Bay Film Foundation's Touch the Future Award. Unger's 2000 production The Fly That Wouldn't Try has been licensed for distribution by Hypnotic Films. His feature length screenplay Binary Sonata has been selected as a semi-finalist in both the Dolphin Bay Screenplay Competition and the Chesterfield Film Project.
After graduating in 2001, Stephen moved to New York City to take advantage of a position with Children's Television Workshop's Sesame Street Program while pursuing a master's degree in film at The City College of New York. It is a part of this Master's program that he takes on his most ambitious project to date.

Producer, Roberto Herrero
Born and raised in Brazil, Roberto has degree in Business and Film from Sao Paulo University, Stevens Institute of Technology and New York University.
Roberto has been involved in show business since a young age, working on several television, film and theater productions in Brazil as an actor, director and producer.
Roberto was nominated for Brazil's version of the Tony Awards as best musical actor.
In the United States he has been involved in several on and off Broadway theater, opera, regional theater, and dance productions as both director and producer.
Roberto has also been involved in US films such as The Kiss of the Spider Woman (produced by David Weisman), The Siege (produced by Edward Zwick) and the television show Hot Spot (Showtime Television).
Roberto has also produced the following films: What’s for Dinner Dear, Dirt Road and Reading Lessons. Roberto also has his own film production company called Herrero Entertainment. He is currently producing a musical drama feature film who will be directed by well-known award-winning movie director Roberto Jabor and a comedy feature called The Foursome. Contact Roberto by clicking here.

Screenwriter, Joshua Grover-David Patterson
This screenwriter from Oshkosh, Wisconsin had his first film, Searching for Mr. Right.Com, released in Australia in 2002.
A Chesterfield semi-finalist for his feature Pizza Pig, Patterson has also written for college radio and penned an award-nominated music column.

Cinematographer, Zoran Drakulic
1983: Graduated from The School for Applied Art, Department of Photography
1988: Voted Best Student of Cinematography Department at The Academy for Drama Arts. Rewarded with studentship at VGIK, Moscow Film Academy, Moscow University
1989: Graduated from The Academy for Drama Arts, Department of Cinematography, Zagreb University
1995: Winner of ArtsLink Fellowship, sponsored by The National Endowment for the Arts. Selected from 450 applicants from 20 Europe countries.
1996: Fellowship at NYU Tisch School of Arts, Graduate Film Program
2001: Member of Croatian Society of Cinematographers (HFS),
1996 - present: lives and works in New York.

Composer, Mario Mazzoli
Italian born composer, he is currently based in New York City. After graduating from the Frescobaldi Conservatory in Ferrara, Italy, majoring in piano performance, he moved to Boston to study Film Scoring (with a particular focus on cartoon music) at the Berklee College of Music, where he graduated in 2001. He then moved to New York to gather studio experience at The Edison recording studio on Broadway, where he worked as Assistant technician-engineer, and to pursue a Master degree in composition at the City College, where he received the Bernard Goldfine Award. As a composer he focused on dramatic music, writing scores for several short movies as well as theatrical productions and Tv documentaries. He is currently working on the score for two italian short movies and on his first opera, based on a libretto by the young Italian writer Dario Alfieri.

 

 
 

 
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