Digital Video Festival Screening of OTIS
March 22, 2008 Add a comment below...
If you live in, will be in, or know someone in the area of Los Angeles/So. Cal. please consider attending and/or passing this along to those who might be interested. Thanks!Digital Fest in Los Angeles Click this link for the info page, but the basics are:
What: OTIS screening in the Digital Video Festival
Where: Fairfax Theatre, 7907 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, 90048
When: 6:30pm, Saturday, March 29th
Tickets: Free to the public, but it’s first come/first serve, so you will need to arrive early to get a seat…
Why is it in this festival? Well, OTIS was shot on Hi-Def. An alternative to shooting on film, hi-def allows multiple cameras per take, more takes and other benefits at a more affordable rate than film stock.
OTIS is a story of suburban America gone haywire.In the midst of a serial abductor/killer’s rampage, a beautiful young teen, Riley Lawson (Ashley Johnson), goes missing. When her desperate parents, Will and Kate (Daniel Stern and Illeana Douglas), are contacted by her kidnapper, an insufferable FBI Special Agent (Jere Burns) takes charge of the case. But, from deep within the psychopathic subterranean world created by Otis (Bostin Christopher), Riley turns the tables on her tormentor, manages to escape and to contact her parents. And, fed up with the tragi-comic inability of the FBI to find their girl, Will, Kate, and Riley’s brother, Reed (Jared Kusnitz) decide to take matters - and justice - into their own hands. But when Otis’s brother, Elmo (Kevin Pollack), shows up unexpectedly, the Lawsons find themselves mired in one of the more unusual and macabre consequences of vigilantism. Such is the premise of OTIS, a bold satire of the teenager-in-peril- grindhouse horror genre, and the fourth film of the successful Raw Feed series of DTV movies for Warner Home Video. Far from proclaiming ’Mission Accomplished,’ the backed-in-a-corner Lawsons will further complicate their already deadly predicament with a surprising, unfortunate and frankly hilarious final choice. In the black-comedy/absurdist tradition of Blood Simple, Fargo and A Simple Plan, OTIS represents a new and satirical twist on suburban horror, family values and the chaotic consequences of American homemade justice.
It’s FREE to the public. You must arrive early to get in line for a seat. Hope to see you there!!!
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