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SYNOPSIS

Meg, an amateur harpist and professional teacher's pet, wants to commemorate the shooting that happened at her school a decade ago by staging a full musical reenactment of the event. She enlists cheerleader Penny to help “pitch” the idea to Principal Linda and Mr. Shelby. But the adults aren’t ready to face the music.

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Philanthropy Theatre
Friday, September 29 @ 12:30 PM

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London: The Garden Cinema
2nd-3rd September

Glasgow:
The Glad Cafe
16th September @ 12:30, 14:10
Glasgow Film Theatre
17th September @ 17:40, 19:50

Edinburgh:
Everyman
20th September @ 20:00
Comedy Connect - ECA
21st September @ 13:00
The Cameo
22nd and 23rd September

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The Cary Theater
Friday, September 22 @ 5:30 PM

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Mar del Plata
October 4 to 8

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Advanced Learning Library
Saturday, October 7 @ 2:30 PM

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DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT

NITZAN MAGER

Are you worried about making a dark comedy that deals with the aftermath of a school shooting? Me too. But I’m more worried about not making this film. About there not being a film that cuts through the thoughts and prayers. I clearly remember the day my kid came back home from school in his first month of kindergarten and reported that they’d had a lockdown drill. Oh, I asked, What’s that? Well, he said, We hid in the bathroom and had to be quiet so that dangerous animals wouldn’t get us. I still think about this when I send him to school. And when I go into a grocery store. Or a movie theater. I look for exits, make a plan of escape. We, as a society, have normalized this. We've normalized the American-ness of gun culture. In making this film, I hope to jolt the audience into an urgent, if uncomfortable realization: This is not normal. And it's time to change the culture.

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While RUN AMOK is a work of fiction, it speaks to a very real issue we face in the United States: an unconscionable amount of gun violence and gun-related deaths. Part of the driving force in making this film is to draw attention to this issue-- and, we hope, spark discussion that can help contribute to a change in our gun culture. This film is meant to spark discussion, so we're glad to partner with Project Unloaded to provide a few questions for folks to consider after they watch the film.

THINGS TO PONDER

• What was your earliest awareness of the threat of school shootings? What conscious or unconscious changes have you made in response to that threat?

• Meg is proposing a theatrical reenactment of a shooting that took place at her school. What role does art play in addressing traumatic events?

• Do you think the Mr. Shelby and Principal Linda responded reasonably to Meg? If you were in their shoes, what would you have done differently?

• The characters have different connections to the shooting that took place at the school. Who should get to decide how a mass shooting is remembered?

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY
NITZAN MAGER

A FILMATICS PRODUCTION
IN ASSOCIATION WITH MAMAFILM

PRODUCED BY
LELA MEADOW-CONNER

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
ELIA PETRIDIS

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
JULIE CHRISTEAS
KERRI ELDER
BLAKE ELDER

CAST
ALYSSA EMILY MARVIN • MEG
GENEVA CARR • PRINCIPAL LINDA
ZOE WILSON • PENNY
BRANDON J. DIRDEN • MR. SHELBY
ROWAN MEYER • MR. FLINT (VOICE)

CREW
SHACHAR LANGLEV • DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
KATE RANCE • PRODUCTION & COSTUME DESIGNER
TOM DOMINGUES • EDITOR
NATALIA IYUDIN • EDITOR & CO-PRODUCER
KRISTINA JAMES • COMPOSER
ERICA A. HART • CASTING DIRECTOR
JUDITH KENNY • ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
DEVIN BERKO • LINE PRODUCER
CHRISTOPHER JAMES LOPEZ • UNIT PRODUCTION MANAGER
ASHLEY GEORGE • FIRST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
KATE BURDUZHAN • SECOND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR & SCRIPT SUPERVISOR
IRYNA DEMIANIUK • ASSISTANT PRODUCTION & COSTUME DESIGN
SUSAN MEI • 1ST ASSISTANT CAMERA
WARUT SNIDVONGS • GAFFER
NELLI TOTH • KEY GRIP
PRABHAT GURUNG • GRIP
JAKARI LISTER • GRIP
RACHEL VILLEGAS • SOUND MIXER
COLETTE SWEENEY • HAIR & MAKEUP
TAMAR ROGOFF • CHOREOGRAPHER
SOPHIA SHEDD • HARPIST
OFER WOLBERGER • SET PHOTOGRAPHER
OTHER NYC • VISUAL EFFECTS
YIBIN ‘AB’ SU • COLORIST
QUENTIN CHIAPPETTA • SOUND DESIGN & EDITING
KIAH AMARA • ACCESSIBILITY CONSULTANT
TYLER EMERSON • LEGAL COUNSEL
VINCE RAVINE • LEGAL COUNSEL
KYLIE BROWN • WEBSITE

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