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Tales from the Script That Evening Sun
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Ever wonder what kind of real-life drama screenwriters – the often
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When the flinty widower Abner Meecham, age 80, walks away from
Director: Peter Hanson unsung heroes of the moviemaking process – experience? Documentary Director: Scott Teems the nursing home where his citified lawyer-son (Walton Goggins) has
Producers: Paul Robert Herman director Peter Hanson and collaborator Paul Robert Herman have – and Executive Producers: Raul Celaya,
installed him, he has only one wish: to live out his days on the sun-baked
Screenwriter: Peter Hanson
from that curiosity comes this tell-all slugfest featuring dozens of
Adrian Jay, Larsen Jay
piece of land he knows and loves. But when Meecham gets home, he
Editor: J. D. Funari
Hollywood heavy hitters like William Goldman (The Princess Bride), Paul Producers: Terence Berry, finds his farmhouse has been rented out to a longtime enemy – ne’er-
Walton Goggins
Cast: Allison Anders, Antwone Fisher,
Schrader (Taxi Driver), Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption), do-well drunkard Lonzo Choat (Raymond McKinnon). A war of wills
MS: A to Z
Bruce Joel Rubin, John Carpenter,
and horrormeister John Carpenter – all of whom share the glory, defeat,
Screenwriter: Scott Teems
between the wronged octogenarian and the sour invader he sees as
MS: A to Z
il Frank Darabont
and depravity they have endured while pounding their keyboards. Cinematographer: Rodney Taylor white trash must be fought. As the old man settles into a sharecropper’s
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2009 / color / 105 min. Editor: Travis Sittard
cabin next to the house, still grieving for his beloved wife, the burning
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Suffice to provide samples. From Academy Award winner Bruce Joel question is clearly not whether but what sort of violence will erupt –
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Cast: Hal Holbrook, Ray McKinnon,
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Rubin, the writer/director of My Life: “The writer isn’t even at the Walton Goggins, Mia Wasikowska, and when.
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bottom of the totem pole. They’re at the part that they stick in the
Carrie Preston
That Evening Sun marks the feature debut of Georgia-born writer/
PETEr hanSon
ground.” From Stephen Susco: “The Grudge was my first film. It was
2009 / color / 109 min.
Originally from Michigan, Peter Hanson
director Scott Teems, who captures the languid rhythms of the rural
my 25th screenplay.” And from Dennis Palumbo (My Favorite Year): “A
studied film and screenwriting at New
South and the sting of class-based antagonisms with the confidence of
writer friend of mine once described screenwriters as ‘egomaniacs with
York University as well as journalism a native. While his supporting cast is pitch-perfect – including young
at the University of Albany. Hanson
low self-esteem.’”
SCoTT TEEMS
Mia Wasikowska as Lonzo Choat’s vulnerable teenage daughter, Pamela
began his career as a reporter/editor
Born and raised just outside of Atlanta,
– Holbrook is the compelling centerpiece here as, in Teems’s words, “a
for various publications in upstate Still think you want to try your own hand at a screenplay? If Goldman’s
Scott Teems makes his feature film
New York; his titles as a writer include
warning to the aspiring scenarist (“you’re gonna get pissed on and
debut with That Evening Sun. Teems
badass old man who looks death in the eye and says: ‘Go to hell. I’ve got
Dalton Trumbo: Hollywood Rebel and
has directed several shorts which have
some living left to do.’”
rejected”) isn’t enough, try this caveat from Billy Ray (Breach, State of
The Cinema of Generation X. Hanson’s
played in film festivals throughout
first feature documentary, Every Pixel
Play): “Someone told me that Warner Bros. has 360 movies in develop-
North America. He is also a successful
Tells a Story, screened at festivals in New
ment. Just let that number rattle around in your head. I mean, they’re commercial director, with campaigns
York and on the local PBS channel. He gonna make 10 a year, 12 a year? So where are all those scripts going?
for IBM, Cisco, KB Home, and the Walt
now lives in Beverly Hills as a freelance
They’re going nowhere” – unlike Tales from the Script, as enlightening
Disney Company.
screenwriter and producer.
as it is juicy.
In cooperation with: lighthouse Writers Workshop
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