Country: USA
Year: 2011
Duration: 81'
After the young priest William Smoortser tells his faithful a few less-than-canonical parabolas, his superiors strongly recommend he take sabbatical leave. Billy thus decides to get back in contact with Robbie, his high school idol, and go on a canoeing trip with him. The first day, they find themselves thinking back to the days when Billy used to play in a Christian band and Robbie played heavy metal guitar. But as night falls, they discover that they are lost and must deal with a series of strange events. “I worked at a Theology school over three summers during college. I met a number of priests who ended up leaving the church – taking jobs as shoe salesmen or settling into a married life. In those circumstances, questions about the commitment to your profession had to be tough – and as a filmmaker who isn’t making a dime and is struggling to move forward with my work, I certainly related and connected to those feelings.”
Biography
film director
Todd Rohal
Todd Rohal (Columbus, Ohio) graduated from the Honors Tutorial Department of Ohio University, where he met most of the cast and crew who contributed to the production of The Guatemalan Handshake (2006), his first feature-length production, which previewed at the Slamdance Film Festival and later competed at the Torino Film Festival and many other festivals, including the Independent Film Festival in Boston. His four short films, including Knuckleface Jones (1999) and Hillbilly Robot (2001), have been screened at New York Underground, at South by Southwest, and at the Hamptons, Slamdance, Athens, Long Island and Maryland film festivals. In addition, he served as director of photography for various film productions and as an editor for TV channels such as the Discovery Channel and PBS.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Single Spaced (cm, 1997), Slug 660 (cm, 1998), Knuckleface Jones (cm, 1999), Hillbilly Robot (cm, 2001), The Guatemalan Handshake (2006), Cinemad Mix Tape #1 (cm, 2009), The Catechism Cataclysm (2011).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Todd Rohal
fotografia/cinematography
Benjamin Kasulke
montaggio/film editing
Alan Canant
scenografia/production design
Cassie Miggins
costumi/costume design
Alison Kelly
musica/music
Joseph Stephens
suono/sound
Randy Matuszewski
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Steve Little (padre/Father William Smoortser), Robert Longstreet (Robbie Shoemaker), Walter Dalton (padre/Father O’Herlihey), Miki Ann Maddox (Huckleberry Finn), Koko Lanham (Tom Sawyer), Rico A. Comic (Jim), Jay Wesley Cochran (l’uomo d’affari depresso/Depressed Businessman), Joe Ivy (il proprietario del negozio di canoe/Canoe Shop Owner), Barbara Pomer (Milagros Maria), Enrique Olguin (Miguel), Ernie Joseph (James Sexmun), Timothy Watkins (padre/Father Tim)
produttori/producers
Megan Griffiths, Lacey Leavitt, David Gordon Green, Jody Hill, Danny McBride, Matt Reilly
produzione/production
Littleman, Littleman, Littleman & Biggs, Rough House Production
vendita all’estero/world sales
Brigade Marketing
