disOrienting Stage and Film--Cynthia Granville

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disOrienting Stage and Film LLC, founded by Cynthia Granville, presents work for the stage and for the camera, work that seeks to leave its audience seeing the world slightly differently than when they came.

We're a boutique shop providing individual attention to your project, whether you're building the profile of your business on the web or crossing over as an artist from other media onto the screen.

See the trailer for our upcoming feature film Boys in the Backroom here.

IN MEMORIAM screened this fall at the Flint Film Festival (Oct. 15), Cape May Film Festival (Oct. 22), and GIAA Festival in NYC (Nov. 20). Selected for a Special Educational Shorts Award at Columbia Gorge International Film Festival, we have also screened at Action on Film, Art of Brooklyn , and Jersey Shore Film Festival(Honorable Mention, Shorts). We premiered in May at Swansea Bay Film Festival (Wales) and in the U.S. at SOL Film Festival at Shades Rep, Haverstraw, NY. The collateral damage of war is seen through the eyes of a thirteen year old girl. Writer/director/editor. View the trailer here

New projects knocking on film festival doors include "First Date," here.

More than 2900 YouTube views of Cynthia's award-winning music video for Athena Reich's "Just Me." Visit and view!

View "Dreams Deferred: TWO," a documentary, made for The Work Office, recording the artistic dreams of the NYC arts community here. Screened in Roselle Park Independent Film Festival, NJ and SOL Film Festival, Haverstraw, NY. Honorable Mention, Bayou City Inspirational Film Festival.

View Cynthia's short film, a segment from The Making of Paradise East, here. Shot on Canon XH-A1.

In addition to our narrative fiction and documentary work, we also provide corporate promotional videos, wedding and event videos, broadcast and web commercials, links on request. View our broadcast and web commercials for the West New York Urban Enterprise Zone, holiday 2011, here.

In post: THE MENTAL HEALTH SHOW, co-director/editor

FATHERS' DAY, short, director/editor

BOYS IN THE BACKROOM, a feature film, writer(adapted from the play by Le Wilhelm)/director/editor. completed principal photography August 2010. Finalist for the Pyrex Completion Fund Award.

In development: THE ELEVATOR FILM (working title), adapted from the play, writer/director/editor

Casting and talent payment services, line producer: PARADISE EAST, SAG feature film, directed by Nick Taylor. Screened at Tribeca Film Center, Quad Cinema, several European fests, seeking distribution. Next screening at Quad Cinema NYC, (new cut), Nov. 21, 10pm.

Cynthia continues on-camera coaching privately. email for info.

Audition taping and uploading, see an example here.

Actors' reels, and here, transcoding from VHS and digital file formats. Simple, powerful reels by an editor who can use your footage to best advantage to feature your unique strengths and branding.

Latest on-camera work is always here on YouTube...subscribe to feed on that page.

Cynthia is Artistic Director of The Supporting Characters, a writers' lab-based theatre company dedicated to developing new work for the stage from initial lab reading to full production. Learn more by clicking the link to the left.

Assistant Director CHANGING OF THE GUARD, web series set in turn-of-the-century New York City, for Stuss Productions, Franklin Abrams and Gordon Hanovice, producers

Contact Cynthia Granville through disOrienting Stage and Film for services including directing, casting, DP (equipment includes Canon XH-A1 HDV camera, Canon 7D, Rode NTG-3 shotgun, wireless and wired lavs, light kit; footage deliverable via hdv tape, data or consumer DVD, flash drive, FTP, FCP project to hard drive) and acting teaching/coaching. disOrienting Stage and Film also provides production services for outside projects including line producing, grantwriting and marketing.

Click on these links to learn more about some of Cynthia's past projects:
THE CAPITALIST, SAG feature film, additional casting
NEW ORLEANS (co-produced by DisOrienting Stage and Film), New York City, also director/casting
GENEVA, for Hudson Exploited Theater Company, New Jersey, director/casting
THROUGH NOVEMBER MOONLIGHT (also producer, for Blueberry Pond Theatre Ensemble), director/casting

MOMOIRS, CT, director/dramaturg

CADILLAC at the Bendheim Performing Arts Center in Scarsdale, Feb 09. director/casting, production services including grantwriting.

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