To see a greener world
tchiing hour
wa
takes great vision…
the
zombies of Mass Destruction
USA
Ever since George Romero brought the horrors of Vietnam so close to
Director: Kevin Hamedani home in his 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead, the zombie has stood
Producer: John Sinno (make that lumbered) a trusty metaphor for the fears of modern-day
Screenwriters: Kevin Hamedani,
society. Using Romero’s model, director/cowriter Kevin Hamedani exam-
Ramon Isao ines the realities of post-9/11 American life in our funny bones (among
Cinematographer: John Guleserian other body parts) as it does so, ZMD takes us to the once supposedly
MS: A to Z
Editor: Andrew Mcallister
idyllic hamlet of Port Gamble where, without warning, zombies have
il
Cast: Janette Armand,
begun to take over.
Doug Fahl, Cooper Hopkins, Bill Johns,
E F
Russell Hodgkinson
Running for her life is Frida, an Iranian-American young woman
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2009 / color / 90 min. whose Walmart-loving neighbors deem the zombie influx a terrorist
plot – perpetrated by her. On her side are Tom and Lance, a gay couple
who have ventured here to come out to Tom’s mother – a scenario that
probably would not have gone well even if she hadn’t been mauled by
KEVin haMEDani
flesh eaters. Local politics, meanwhile, are getting as ugly as the undead
Washington native Kevin Hamedani
menace, what with the conservative mayor up for reelection against
completed his first feature, Clothes, at
age 18. In 2003, while attending the
an ecofriendly female hippie and the local minister preaching that the
University of Washington, Hamedani
zombies are all sinners – and that he and his followers will be spared
completed two more features, their messy fate. When the bloody dust settles, who will remain – and
Bookends and The Unfinished Novel
will they be pro–health care?
by the Man Who Ate Himself, and
founded his production company, Razi
Films. After graduating with honors,
Hamedani (himself Iranian-American) has said that ZMD is inspired by
he went on to produce, direct, and
his experiences in Seattle in the wake of the attacks on the World Trade
edit promotional videos for artists such Center, when even friends turned on him in suspicion and fear. It was
as Bollywood star Chadana Dixit and
time, he decided, that America remember the truism that sometimes
companies all around the world.
there’s nothing more fearful than fear itself. Let the gore-spattered
healing begin.
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