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Friday, January 13, 2006

Feature M/F

PERCEPTION - Non-Union Feature Film
PRINCIPALS:
CLARISSA - Female, caucasian, early 20s. Principled, charismatic, strong-willed and tough, but emotionally accessible. Cute, in an Ani Difranco kind of way. A photographer. Comfortable playing homeless/being dirty. Naturally pretty enough (no makeup or fancy hair), perhaps in an unconventional way, for beauty to shine through the grime of living on the streets.
RALPH - Male, caucasian, late 20s/early 30s. A driven, successful real estate professional. In good shape (not necessarily buff). Needs to be able to play the same role in 2 directions--play the scene once as a jackass and play it again as a nice guy.
TOBIAS - Male, mid to late 20s. An intellectual who feels caged by the world of capitalism. A writer and thinker, perpetual student who can't find his niche in the world. Very gentle and romantic, but possessing a lot of bottled up anger. Not necessarily handsome, but interesting to look at / looks that grow on you.
DAY PLAYERS:
THE MAN WHO INCHED - Male, 40-60, an aggressive subway rider, the kind of person who pushes in past people tryiho ng to get off of the train MOM - 45-60, loving, simple New Jersey mother. Likes to laugh.
DAD - Male, 45-60, nonjudgmental, trusting New Jersey father with a dry wit.
BARBARA - Female, 35-60, Clarissa's loud aunt, obnoxious and fun. 21 lines,
2 scenes
MCNEIL - Male, 40-55, powerful, cynical and ruthless businessman, fast-paced and sharply dressed. Smokes cigars.
PROFESSOR - Male or female, 35-60, a great and caring teacher, personable and intelligent.
SECURITY GUARD - Male, 25-45, slightly intimidating.
DOORMAN - Male, 30-60, friendly neighborhood doorman at luxury apartment.

STORY: One man walks into a party and sees the art on the walls, the books on the shelves, the bold color that the man by the window is wearing. Another man enters the same party at the same instant and sees the chandelier, the way a shadow falls through the back of a chair and casts bars of light onto the floor behind.
If asked to describe this same moment in time to a stranger, that stranger would no doubt conclude that these two men were in two completely different places. When in fact, they were in the same place at the very same instant!
Perception explores this breach of experience by glancing into the lives of three individuals: Clarissa, Ralph and Tobias.
After the typical college experience, Clarissa moved to NYC. She quickly became jaded, and in time, working her job as an Administrative Assistant came to compromise her self-respect. She felt as one of the common many--a "sell out." And she quit. Today, she lives as a homeless person on the streets of New York.
Her brother Ralph--a successful real estate salesman--lives on the 20th floor of 59th Street and Central Park South. He both detests and pities Clarissa.
Tobias is a waiter and perpetual student. He has taken night classes for close to ten years, but refuses to take what is required to garner a degree.
Perception journeys through the same month of time from each character's point of view, detailing how presumption and mistaken intention leads to great misunderstanding. A moment, revisited from another point of view, takes new dimension--and protagonist and antagonist change places.
Perception shines a light upon the curtain that isolates us; the fundamental breach in perspective from one individual to the next.
DEFERRED PAY
DAVID DOAN
C/O JMM
440 PARK AVE. SOUTH
11TH FLOOR
NEW YORK, NY 10016

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