27 Down Press Room
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New Independent Film 27 Down Features Local Professional Actors and Crews
Mystery Thriller Uses Crossword Puzzle To Reveal Clues
Wild Beagle Productions, a new independent film company, has begun production of 27 Down, an original mystery thriller. It follows the exploits of a Boston detective, Ben Stone, who gets embroiled in a tense hit-and-run investigation. The story takes place around Boston locations and in the fictional town of Canada, Maine. The film dramatizes the idea: "It's not the things we do that define who we are...It's what happens next."
This is the first film for Wild Beagle Productions, which started filming in Andover, Massachusetts on June 21st.
Producer Judy Coleman says, "Director John Depew has brought together a talented group of professional actors and crew and for a story he co-wrote with veteran writer Steve Hrehovcik. We are very excited to have Adam Starr, an emmy award winning cinematographe, as our Director of Photography."
Depew says, "The film uses a crossword puzzle as a metaphor for predicaments the characters must untangle in their lives. There are some twists and surprises in the story, with an important clue revealed when the puzzle for 27 Down is solved."
Starring in 27 Down are Curtis Fennell as the detective Ben Stone, Emily Culver as Judge Sarah Wilson, who gets romantically involved with Stone, and Kyle Andrews as Stone's partner, Ed Zylinski. Kate Bilsbury and Curtis Eames portray the parents of the young boy who is the victim of the hit-and-run accident. Filling out important feature roles are Jessica Erin Sylvia, who plays the part of Candy Phillips. Candy is a menacing character who complicates the life of Brett Leigh, playing Marshall Trent, a young man trying to overcome a troubled past.
In major support roles Bennett M. Delatizky plays Cyrus, the owner of a convenience store in Canada, Maine where Detective Stone thwarts a robbery attempt, Aaron Firicano, who plays Gibbons, a disturbed prisoner that Stone wants to rehabilitate. Julia Cook plays Kate, who falls in love with Marshall Trent, and Bill O'Malley plays Deputy Fargus, a bungling officer in Canada, Maine.
Portraying other featured roles are Leo Maloney, Tom Walters, Elise Couture, David Murray, Alaina Hourigan, Cabell Eames, Rachel Robiner, Andrew Olden and J.T. Logan.
Coleman says, "In addition to Andover, filming takes place in several locations around Boston and Kittery, Maine. We expect to have all scenes completed by the end of August. It will take until the end of the year to finish post-production work and final editing. Then we'll show the film in local theaters as we seek opportunities for distribution. We hope to have 27 Down in theaters by early 2009."
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