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. Stage projects range from the classics to developing new work. Need help with holiday promotion, broadcast/web commercials? A new reel? Contact us now.

Here's Cynthia's guest column for casting director Paul Russell's "Answers for Actors" blog. Find out what makes a killer reel, and key mistakes to avoid!

Teaching and mentoring are important to our focus on the artist. Summers find Cynthia at NYU Gallatin's Summer Theatre Institute, directing/developing the work of emerging playwrights as Associate Producer and Casting Director. She spent two years at the Bergen County (NJ) Teen Arts Festival with "YouTube in a Cube," about web video creation from initial screenplay idea through post production. She has taught after school enrichment programs in drama and video production throughout New Jersey and in Westchester.

SMOKE SCREEN, a feature film which Cynthia produced, is now available on Amazon Prime and other platforms. Check out this edgy, eerie caper thriller!

Festival news: Michelle F. Hartley's DON'T HOLD BACK (Cynthia as shooter/associate producer/editor) continued its festival run, winning the Louis Mitchell Award and was nominated as best short-short at Action on Film Festival, where several of our films have screened.
Cynthia was the casting director of PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. FATHER'S DAY, a SAG-AFTRA project we produced for its writer-star, premiered at Big Apple Film Festival: director/editor. THE PILGRIM, also a short produced for its author, has screened at several fests including New Filmmakers NY, and MENTAL HEALTH (producer/director/shooter) premiered at AOF.

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

IN MEMORIAM continues to be seen, most recently at the Spotlight On Festival 2017 in New York City. We had previously screened in NY at New Filmmakers, the Flint Film Festival , Cape May Film Festival , and GIAA Festival in NYC. 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 at Swansea Bay Film Festival (Wales) and in the U.S. at SOL Film Festival in 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. The full film is now available on Vimeo.

Two artist-generated projects at film festivals include "First Date," here, and "The Vibe." "First Date" premiered in April at the River Bend Film Festival. "The Vibe" premiered August 16 at Columbia Gorge IFF, where "First Date" also played, and both films also screened at Action on Film.

More than 3000 YouTube views of Cynthia's award-winning music video for Athena Reich's "Just Me." Another music video, for Tom Werkheiser, here...have a listen!

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, Kickstarter/Indiegogo video campaigns, links on request. View our broadcast and web commercials for the West New York Urban Enterprise Zone, holiday 2011, here.

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

In development: THE ELEVATOR FILM (working title), adapted from the play, writer/director/editor, and SEASONS (working title), original screenplay, 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.

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. Coaching on how to market yourself with your clips on Actors Access and other platforms.

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, dropbox) 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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