Country: Portugal
Year: 1993
Duration: 12'


In the midst of the current recession, a series of disastrous telephone messages triggers a major domestic crisis for the Kosnicks, a yuppie couple at the end of their rope. In the height of their despair, a door to door salesman tries to sell them a book about positive thinking, but for the Kosnicks... it may be too late.

Biography

film director

Bruno de Almeida

Bruno de Almeida was born in Paris in 1965. He studied in Lisbon were he grew up. He has been living and working in New York City since 1985 were he studied film at the New York University. Bruno de Almeida started to work in films as a cinematographer, shooting various shorts and music videos in New York. In 1990 he formed is own production company Arco Films.

FILMOGRAFIA

Anti GIamour (cm, 1991), Amalia Rodrigues, Live in New York (1992), The King in Exile (cm, 1993), The Debt (1993).

Cast

& Credits

Director: Bruno de Almeida.
Screenplay: Steven Ausbury.
Director of photography: Jean de Segonzac.
Art director: Andy McDowell.
Editor: James Lyons.
Music: Frank London.
Sound: Scott Breindel.
Cast and characters: Scott Rendered (signor Kosnick), Kristen Johnson (signora Kosnick), Paul Lazar (venditore porta a porta).
Director of Production: Bruno de Almeida.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Bruno de Almeida, Arco Films, 41 Seventh Avenue South, New York, NY 10014 USA, tel. e fax +12122426617.

TFF

prizes

SHORT FILM COMPETITION 1993

Special Mention

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