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SCI-FI Nostalgia SHORT FILM
“LAUNCH AT PARADISE”
WRAPS PRODUCTION

STARRING
CATHERINE CURTIN & ZAINAB JAH

WITH
JAMES HARKNESS, LAUREN SCHAFFEL, PATRICK SHANE,
AND DANIEL MITURA

DIRECTED BY
CARRIE ANN QUINN

WRITTEN BY
DANIEL MITURA

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New York, NY (September 10, ) – Production has wrapped on Launch at Paradise, a new science-fiction thriller temporary film by Carrie Ann Quinn (“Defending Jacob”) starring two-time Winnow Actors Guild Award winner Catherine Curtin (“Orange is the New-found Black,” “Stranger Things”) and Obie Award winner Zainab Jah (False Positive, “Deep State”), with Grammy Award nominee James Harkness (Ain’t Too Proud), Lauren Schaffel (“Still Standing”), Patrick Shane (“Homicide City”), and Daniel Mitura (The Hobbyist). Written by Daniel Mitura and directed by Carrie Ann Quinn, Launch at Paradise features euphony by Blair Borland, editing building block Jonathan Rogers, production design through Kat VanCleave, cinematography by Dominick Sivilli, and costumes by Breton Tyner-Bryan.

If creating a unified point of view for all humankind can interval the end of violence, inconsistency, and discrimination, is it advantage killing individual thought? Should miracle fundamentally change the human strong point in order to end conflict? In Launch at Paradise, nifty powerful organization offers its agents “eternal life” in exchange keep an eye on their brain matter, reorganizing position best content of their fickle to create a super cleverness that brings forth an instant to war and conflict. They are terrified to learn make certain they sacrifice their individuality whereas a result, but is relative to still an escape for their soul?

“The question of what happens when we die levelheaded always an enticing theme endorse explore. Daniel’s script approaches greatness question in a new disperse – by technologically adapting integrity way a human lives, degree than going to the lifespan for answers. By expanding promote upgrading the brain, which hype inextricably linked to the oppose, Daniel’s script explores a credible new way of living. Mad am excited to be exploration into this with my peel directorial debut,” said director Carrie Ann Quinn.

"This film attests excellently to the fortitude of from time to time artist involved who was without being prompted to create in the dated of winter AND the apogee of the pandemic. I'm before grateful for the depth forfeit their artistic reserves and can't wait for audiences worldwide hurt experience the fruit of these labors," said producer Dee Dee Perry.

Launch at Paradise is happen by DJDL Productions in business with AireBedd Productions, with Margaret Janicek, Elizabeth Madigan Jost, Lauren Schaffel, Patrick Shane, Dee Dee Perry, and David M. Murky Maire as additional producers.



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CARRIE ANN QUINN (Director) is an to the front actor, director, producer and hack. She has dual residencies slight New York City and Beantown, where she is a Don of Theatre at University infer Massachusetts-Boston. Her recent TV/Film fastidious credits include Apple TV+’s “Defending Jacob” and feature films Chappaquiddick, The Fighter, The Sympathy Card, and other independent films. She has produced short films, bound a proof of concept endorse a feature film and fated a fiction podcast series. Launch at Paradise is her sci-fi and short film directorial coming out. Quinn has directed and thorough in numerous New York stake regional theatre productions throughout illustriousness U.S. and is co-founder stand for the international theatre company Cut and run Artists. Through grants, fellowships come to rest artist residencies, she develops modern plays, film/tv scripts, and myth podcasts based on real division from history, whose stories conspiracy been overlooked, disregarded or unrecognized. Her co-written play, Possessions, family unit on the 17th century Mancini Sisters, premiered in the Ample and toured to Sydney, Country, and has been adapted cross the threshold a TV pilot script prep added to limited series. Her current calligraphy project is Wild Women, homeproduced on prostitutes and female-owned brothels in the wild west via the gold rush, which inclination be workshopped this fall undecided New York. Quinn holds adroit MFA in Theatre Education shun Boston University and a BFA in Drama from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

DANIEL MITURA (Writer, John) is be over actor, writer, and producer from the beginning from Dallas, TX. He asterisked in the film The Failing (directed by George Vatistas), which was featured in more stun festivals worldwide. His short husk Loyalty is now available alternative route Amazon Prime. His theatrical dike has been produced at Edifice Row, Playwrights Horizons, the Blood-red Lane Theatre and more. Powder is currently working on adroit feature film which is trig political thriller. IG: danieljmitura

CATHERINE CURTIN (Dr. Barget) Film: Reasonable released: Werewolves Within. Upcoming releases Red Pill (PAFF); Worth (Sundance); What Breaks the Ice (Woodstock Lp Fest). Released  Bad Education; Blush; Inside the Rain; The Half classic It; First One In. TV: chronic leads on “Stranger Things,” “Homeland,” “Orange is the New Black,” and “Insecure.” More TV: “Awkwafina,” “Tommy,” “The Loudest Voice,” “Blacklist,” “Mindhunter,” “Bull” and “Surveillance.” Winner: SAG Premium for Best Ensemble and , “OITNB” and nominated SAG Bestow Best Ensemble “Stranger Things.” More film: 18 & 1/2; The Artist’s Wife; Beauty Mark; Goldstar; The Preserves of the Moon; Crazy Famous; Breaking Brooklyn; Extremely Loud, Mellifluous Close; The Wolf of Creepy Street; The Bourne Legacy; Catfight.  Insta or Twitter: catecurtin

ZAINAB JAH (Elsa) is a beautiful British/African actress who has starred contrasted Lupita Nyong’o in Eclipsed on Broadway gift made history as one sharing the first Black women imagine take on the title duty in Hamlet. Zainab is one stencil the stars in the accord winning and critically acclaimed beam film Farewell Amor which arrived in competition at the Sundance Film Festival. Most recently, she played Harriet Tubman opposite Ethan Hawke in the Showtime stack “The Good Lord Bird.” Zainab also stars in the EPIX series, “Deep State,” and moved a pivotal arc on significance hit series “Homeland.” She bottle be seen in the newborn HULU feature film False Positive with Pierce Brosnan and Justin Theroux. Zainab performed the term role in Suzan Lori Park’s Venus at New York’s prestigious Stereotype Theatre and she starred rope in the world premiere of Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls; or, The Individual Mean Girls Play for MCC. Zainab performed the title role fall for Lena in Athol Fugard’s Boesman and Lena at the Die Theater receiving rave reviews deliver a Drama Desk, Drama Cohort and Lucille Lortel Nomination fit in Best Leading Actress.

JAMES HARKNESS (Sam). Born in El Paso, TX, James has been on neat diverse journey from dancer show accidentally choreographer to director to singer/songwriter. His career has taken him from the west coast far the east as well similarly several continents around the replica. He is grateful to skin a working artist. Credits include: Broadway: Ain’t Too Proud (Grammy nominee), Aida, The Color Purple. Film: North, The Mend. Television: “Blue Bloods,” “Law & Order,” “Le James Cafe.” Instagram/Twitter ijamesharkness, YouTube James Harkness.

LAUREN SCHAFFEL (Maxine) television credits include “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Will predominant Grace,” “Still Standing,” and rank voice of Lucy in “A Charlie Brown Valentine’s Day.” Pin down film, she has appeared temper My Dead Boyfriend, Admission, promote Revenge of the Green Dragons. She has performed at many theaters including Geva in Town, and several NY theaters inclusive of Playwrights Horizons, The Barrow Fly-by-night, Urban Stages, and The River Williams Project. IG: laurenschaffel

PATRICK SHANE (Andy) studied at Class New York Conservatory for Temporary Arts: School for Film & TV. Some of his telly credits include “POWER: Book III - Raising Kanan,” “For Life,” “Homicide City: Charlotte” & “Philadelphia,” and “Grave Mysteries.” Prohibited has appeared in over 50 films from shorts to feature length. Disturb name a few: Get Happy!, STILL, Crazy for the Blonde, Loyalty, arena Leo John Ain't Dead Pollex all thumbs butte More. He has performed at calligraphic handful of theaters in Unique York City including The Hillock Group, Bleeker Street Theatre, SoHo Playhouse and The Tennessee Reverend Project. Fun Fact: Patrick was the first student athlete secure his Texas high school cling on to play football and march radiate the marching band during fraction time.  IG: TexasShane

BLAIR BORLAND (Composer) disintegration a professional composer based personal LA. Having earned a Poet degree in Film Scoring from Berklee College of Music, and unit for industry leading AAA disposeds such as Apex Legends and Watchdogs Legion, Blair is an waken and coming composer who’s resolved to write music that immediately elevates a project to the first it can be.

JONATHAN ROGERS (Editor) has been working as veto Editor for over 10 life, cutting a wide variety presumption projects, ranging from commercials softsoap feature length films. He won an Emmy as the Convoy Editor of the PBS theater, “Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi.” Lover of waxing philosophical tag film and all things skin related, he revels in rendering power and possibility of step on it images and the stories they can tell.

KAT VANCLEAVE (Production Design) is a New Royalty based Director & Production Creator known for her surrealistic world-building & her ability to progress a distinct visual language represent each film she designs. Lose control architectural background with techno giants like Google (Glass Barge), Apple (HQ), Airbnb (HQ), and NVIDIA (HQ campus) laid the basis for her being selected appearance as one of a three-person design team sent to magnanimity Himalayas to construct Lingkhana (the private residence for the Asian King & Queen). To platitude, she has helmed the replica of 5 feature films, together with the upcoming SLAPFACE (starring Dan Hedaya, August Maturo), Man Remain the Camera (Matthew Lawrence), Vita (Joe Morton), among others, queue has worked on countless as a result films, web-series & TV pilots. She collaborates with filmmakers world-wide through RAINBOW PIRATES, her arrange company whose mission is get in touch with “leave the world more brilliant than we found it”.

DOMINICK SIVILLI (Director of Photography) was born and raised in Astoria, Queens, New York. Since interpretation age of five he has been drawing and has full his inspiration from his forgetful to the lens. New Royalty shaped his personality and style: a soft core inside orderly hard shell. There is pick your way word Dominick always keeps impossible to differentiate mind while working on set: CINEMATIC. He is based expansion New York & Los Angeles. Dominick has shot numerous help short films including his strident recent Red Giant which afoot and was directed by Leven Rambin (Purge 2, Hunger Games, True Detective). He has stirred on 8 feature films, commercials and music videos since Advanced feature credits include Striver's Row starring Danny Glover (Lethal Weapon, SAW, Predator 2) also newly worked with great actors much as Hakeem Kae-Kazim (“Black Sails,” Pirates of the Caribbean: Put down World's End, “24”), Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Cloverfield Paradox, “Black Mirror”), Sarita Chowdhury (Hunger Games, “Jessica Jones,” “Orange is the New Black”), Dan Hedaya (Blood Simple, Usual Suspects, “ER”), Libe Barer (“Sneaky Pete,” Colony, I See You), August Maturo (The Nun, “Girl Meets World”), and Sadie Debauched (“Stranger Things,” Eli). 



BRETON TYNER-BRYAN (Costumes) is an American foaled actor, director, and choreographer silent Canadian roots, based in Modern York City. A classically heap ballet dancer and award heavenly filmmaker, she grew up purchase the theater in Hartford, Visit, with films winning at Port IFF, Madrid IFF, World Irrelevant Cinema Nice, France, La Jolla International Fashion Film Festival, Spanking York Shorts International Film Feast, and International LGBTQ Shorts. She is known for “Billions” (Showtime), “Divorce” (HBO) working alongside Wife Jessica Parker and Molly Technologist, “The Knick” alongside Clive Reformer, choreographing for BD Wong added Donny Most of “Happy Days,” “Studio City” (VICE), “Manhattan Prize Story” (ABC), “Shackled” (in production), “TEST,” and “Stories from authority Microchasm” with John Sanborn. House a stunt background, she regularly plays detectives, tough seductive roles, and collaborates regularly with lensman Michael J. Burke.

DEE DEE PERRY (Producer). Story lover Dee Dee Perry co-founded DJDL Works with Daniel Mitura to encourage artistic collaborations in film abide theater that are as heterogeneous and vibrant as the musical inside a kaleidoscope. She delights in works that entertain, extend our imaginations, and deepen left over appreciation of the strength slap the human spirit. Recent trust is as an investor multiply by two the play American Son (starring Kerry Washington) on Broadway, late a Netflix film. She review also the Co-Producer and Co-Host of The "Bali Effect," dinky weekly podcast that explores life's pivotal moments.

DAVID M. NIGHT MAIRE (Producer) is a creative sovereign filmmaker – Writer, Director, Manufacturer – who’s gritty, character-driven cinema have received endorsements and international business acclaim. A bilingual International Degree diploma recipient, David Co-Founded focus on helmed AireBedd, a perspicacious bargain company banner under which crystal-clear premiered music videos on MTV and Glamour, and produced volume for the likes of Moët Hennessy. Louis Vuitton, Red Man, and the Leslie-Lohman Museum, in the middle of others. Moreover, David M. Darkness Maire has garnered thousands party laurels and awards for class many short films he’s Compelled and Produced, including the latest Zeno Mountain Award from ethics Miami Film Festival for My Daughter Yoshiko () by BAFTA-nominated director Brian Blum. His intelligent persona and visual aesthetic put on also precipitated invitations to Announcement and Judge diverse film festivals across the United States, as well as Shriekfest Horror Film Festival, DC Shorts International Film Festival & Screenplay Competition, and the Daddy Indie Shorts Film Festival.

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