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JUNE
12, 2006 -
“Head Trauma,” a movie filmed in Scranton in the summer of 2003,
will have its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival this
month.
The
Los Angeles Film Festival, held annually in June, showcases the best
of American and International cinema. With an attendance of over
60,000, the festival screens over 175 narrative features,
documentaries, shorts, and music videos. Now in its 12th
year, the festival has grown into a world-class event, uniting new
filmmakers with critics, scholars, film masters, and the movie-loving
public.
“Head Trauma” is an ambitious
independent film that has aerials, underwater sequences, stunts,
cable-cam shots through treetops, and a flooded basement where
something sinister hides beneath the dark water. Like “The
Shining” and “Jacob’s Ladder,” “Head Trauma” shows the
journey of a man who is attempting to make sense of his surroundings
while struggling to save his soul.
Producer John Stefanic, who works with
the Greater Scranton Film Office, a project of Scranton Tomorrow, said
the crew viewed more than 60 abandoned houses for the film’s
location before finally selecting the Prescott house in Scranton. It
was selected for its abundant open space and natural light. It sits
back, away from the street, and has a view of the mountains that
surround the valley.
The Los Angeles Film Festival premiere
is not the only acclaim this film has enjoyed. Sound effects and
theatrical sound mixing for “Head Trauma” were completed at George
Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch in California, following a personal
invitation by Mr. Lucas to the movie’s director Lance Weiler.
Skywalker Ranch includes a 150,000-square-foot post production and
music recording facility as well as offices used for the research and
development of new technologies in editing, audio, and multimedia.
“Head
Trauma” will premiere in Scranton at the Endless Mountains Theater
on September 8 at 8:00 p.m.
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