Documentaries: Leave Them Laughing
Directed by Academy Award winning director John Zaritsky.
Ninety riveting minutes of songs about life, and quips about death, from the wheelchair of a woman who vows to exit the stage with a smile on her beautiful face.Once a nationally-known performer of ballads, skits and self-parody, now fated by Lou Gehrig’s Disease to perish within months, the remarkable Carla Zilbersmith was diagnosed in 2007 and given less than four years to live.
On stage in actual and dramatized flashbacks to her giddy days as a comedienne and chanteuse, and on camera in the unashamed current reality of her condition, Leave Them Laughing tells Carla’s own glad, sad story in her own voice through diary entries, travelogues, interviews and skits. Films of her last brave travels to Australia, Britain and Mexico demonstrate the ferocity of her intention to suck the last molecules of pleasure from her life.
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Short Narratives: The Silence of Bees
In a remote part of Barbados, sea and light create an other-worldly home for author Parker Lam (played by Jim Beaver), a literary lion from American literature. Parker escaped to Barbados years earlier to flee responsibilities and family and to a great extent, himself.
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Documentaries: Within Reach
Ryan and Mandy had a mission: in just 2 years from 2008 to 2010, they bike-packed thousands of miles around the United States using solar-powered electronics and leg powered bicycles to visit 100 sustainable communities searching for a place to call home,to begin a new life, free from the burden of our non sustainable lifestyles. What did they find? What did they learn? Within Reach, a powerful documentary, explores life in America through their eyes and our own. What do we have the potential to become in a new and sustainable version of the American dream?
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Full Length Screenplay: Lila Loves Louie
Award winning full length screenplay seeking funding. Written by Screenwriter and Filmmaker Joanna Perry-Folino.
Painfully shy 18 year old Lila Ross has one week to find the courage to save "the most important person in her life" a baby lemur named Louie, face down her enemies in a despicable cosmetics company and escape a deadening life in Allentown by summoning her alter ego, a death defying, slightly nutty superhero - Lemur Woman. Can she do it?
Winner of the Moondance International Film Festival for Feature Length Screenplay.
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Narrative Short Screenplay: The Big Hit
Written by Screenwriter and Filmmaker Joanna-Perry Folino. A funny and edgy look at middle-aged love and identity crisis. Currently in Pre-Production.
Narrative Shorts: Just Out of Reach
Pete Galaxie Productions, in association with Into The Fire Productions, present Just Out Of Reach.
Now in post production. Learn more and watch a film teaser HERE.
Stage Productions: The Silence of Bees - Joanna Perry-Folino's Full Length Award Winning Play
Inspired by the relationship between acclaimed author Richard Yates (Revolutionary Road) and his daughter, Monica (the inspiration for Larry David's creation of Elaine on Seinfeld), this 2 hour play explores the destruction and resurrection of a relationship and the disappearance of honeybees.