10° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Short Film Competition 1992
TICKITS
by Benjamin Hershleder
Country: USA
Year: 1992
Duration: 18'
Tickits is a poignant and lightly comical look at one day in the life of Toby HeckIer, a dyslexic ten year old boy. Toby canvases his town issuing tickets to people for things he sees as wrong. One ticket is for an inconsiderately parked car that takes up two spaces, another is to a man who litters. The encounters continue until, at the end of the day. Toby returns home to his verbally abusive mother. He seeks refuge in his room. Sheltered there, he cites her for too much drinking, and too much yelling: and instead of giving her the tickets, Toby adds them to the others in a shoebox labeled 'Muthers Tickits' that he keeps hidden under his bed.
Tickits reminds one of how we all affect those around us, from the seemingly insignificant bit of paper thrown to the ground to the more obvious ways that we treat one another. Toby is doing what he can to make his town, and ultimately the world, a better place. The story's author, Paul Milenski, put it well when he said, "Toby is the moral conscience of our age".
Biography
film director
Benjamin Hershleder
Benjamin Hershleder was born in Madison (Wisconsin) in 1964 and grew up with the desire to be involved in the arts. After acting and directing for the stage for several years, in 1990 he moved to Los Angeles and was accepted in the inaugural class of the Film Production Program at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, where produced films and documentaries.
FILMOGRAFIA
To Speak to Her Again (cm. 1990), The Alien Ball (cm, 1990), When He Laughs (cm, 1991), More than a Sport (cm. 1991), Tickits (1992), Buddy Can You Spare a Body? (1992).
Cast
& Credits
Director and editor: Benjamin Hershleder.
Screenplay: Ted Newman, Benjamin Hershleder.
Director of photography: Maria Erades.
Music: Kays AlAtrakchi.
Cast and characters: John MacMillan (Toby), Mark McEwen (poliziotto), Beverly Crawford (la madre di Toby).
Director of Production: Benjamin Hershleder
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Benjamin Hershleder, 4831 North Goldenrod Road, Winter Park, 32792 Florida, USA, tel. 407 6785674.
Screenplay: Ted Newman, Benjamin Hershleder.
Director of photography: Maria Erades.
Music: Kays AlAtrakchi.
Cast and characters: John MacMillan (Toby), Mark McEwen (poliziotto), Beverly Crawford (la madre di Toby).
Director of Production: Benjamin Hershleder
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Benjamin Hershleder, 4831 North Goldenrod Road, Winter Park, 32792 Florida, USA, tel. 407 6785674.
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