Country: USA
Year: 2013
Duration: 83'
When people turn fifty, it’s time to take stock of their life: it’s hard not to reflect on the past and sometimes they make a break with the past and start over. This is what happens to Martin Bonner, who leaves everything behind (the East Coast, two grownup children) and moves to Reno, Nevada, to work in a center that helps former inmates fit back into society. He meets Travis, who was released after twelve years in prison, and even though the two have very little in common, Martin and Travis become good friends.
Biography
film director
Chad Hartigan
Chad Hartigan (Nicosia, Cyprus, 1982) is an Irish, American independent filmmaker and actor. After attending the North Carolina School of the Arts, School of Filmmaking, he wrote and directed his first feature, Luke and Brie Are on a First Date in 2008, which premiered at the Hamptons International Film Festival and went on to spawn a Latin American remake in 2013 called Luna en Leo. His second feature, This Is Martin Bonner, premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Audience Award for Best of NEXT.
FILMOGRAFIA
Luke and Brie Are on a First Date (2008), This Is Martin Bonner (2013).
Declaration
film director
“A lot of the circumstances that the Martin character is in were inspired by my dad. My dad had to move to a small town in Virginia at the age of fifty-five to start a new job. I remember just wondering, how is he going to make his work? He’s so old! Is he even going to try? What’s he going to do all day? […] My challenge became making this movie and having it be completely devoid of my young person’s judgmental perspective. I wanted it to come from Martin’s perspective.”
Cast
& Credits
REGIA, SCENEGGIATURA
Chad Hartigan
FOTOGRAFIA
Sean McElwee
MONTAGGIO
Julio C. Perez IV
SCENOGRAFIA, COSTUMI
Margaret Kaiser
MUSICA
Keegan DeWitt
SUONO
Andrew Scott Duncan
INTERPRETI E PERSONAGGI
Paul Eenhoorn (Martin Bonner), Richmond Arquett (Travis Holloway), Sam Buchanan (Diana), Robert Longstreet (Steve Helms), Demetrius Grosse (Locy), Tom Plunkett (il supervisore/supervisor), Christy Lighthouse (l’oculista/optometrist), Jef Derderian (l’assistente oculista/optometrist assistant), Kristin Slaysman (April), Jeff Pilliod (il banditore d’asta/auctioneer)
PRODUTTORE
Cherie Saulter
PRODUZIONE
600 West Productions
COPRODUTTORE
Aaron Schnobrich
CONTATTI
Chad Hartigan
chadhartigan@gmail.com
Chad Hartigan
FOTOGRAFIA
Sean McElwee
MONTAGGIO
Julio C. Perez IV
SCENOGRAFIA, COSTUMI
Margaret Kaiser
MUSICA
Keegan DeWitt
SUONO
Andrew Scott Duncan
INTERPRETI E PERSONAGGI
Paul Eenhoorn (Martin Bonner), Richmond Arquett (Travis Holloway), Sam Buchanan (Diana), Robert Longstreet (Steve Helms), Demetrius Grosse (Locy), Tom Plunkett (il supervisore/supervisor), Christy Lighthouse (l’oculista/optometrist), Jef Derderian (l’assistente oculista/optometrist assistant), Kristin Slaysman (April), Jeff Pilliod (il banditore d’asta/auctioneer)
PRODUTTORE
Cherie Saulter
PRODUZIONE
600 West Productions
COPRODUTTORE
Aaron Schnobrich
CONTATTI
Chad Hartigan
chadhartigan@gmail.com
