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"LEVI", "DEREK", and "SIMON" - San Fran & the Events Prior

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The films "LEVI", "SIMON", and "DEREK" are 3 short films. Each short film follows the lives of the characters (all played by Jason. A. Drago) Simon, Derek, and Levi and their lives prior to the feature “SAN FRAN”. "SAN FRAN" is currently being produced for 2017. For more insight into what the vision and direction behind "SAN FRAN" watch a special message from the director, Ricardo Luis Amell. (vimeo.com/207465764)

 

San Fran Synopsis

Levi is hitting his midlife crisis a little early. He's also a former foster child with no sense of future. But in his past is with him always in the form of Joe and Simone, two imaginary childhood friends he knew long ago. Twenty years ago, they were a trio of foster children. They made a pact: to go to San Francisco, where they might find some sanctuary. Joe and Simone made it, but Joe never left. But now, all these years later, Levi is going to fulfill that promise.

But the people Levi discovers are not the same ones he has in his head. Once an angry young straight man, Joe is now a married gay man with a child with a lifetime of failed possibilities. And like Levi, Joe has his demons he's fighting in the ghost of his long dead foster father. And Simone has returned from San Francisco to start her life and rebuild from the ashes of a miserable childhood. Levi has to reconcile his illusions of his friends with their realities and crisscross the country to bring all three of them back together. 

SAN FRAN is a sharp tongues dramedy is the school of SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK, SIDEWAYS and LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, where misfits try to find a place in this world because your only family isn't the one you are given, but the one that you make.

 
 

 

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01:15:00
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The films "LEVI", "SIMON", and "DEREK" are 3 short films. Each short film follows the lives of the characters (all played by Jason. A. Drago) Simon, Derek, and Levi and their lives prior to the feature “SAN FRAN”. "SAN FRAN" is currently being produced for 2017. For more insight into what the vision and direction behind "SAN FRAN" watch a special message from the director, Ricardo Luis Amell. (vimeo.com/207465764)

 

San Fran Synopsis

Levi is hitting his midlife crisis a little early. He's also a former foster child with no sense of future. But in his past is with him always in the form of Joe and Simone, two imaginary childhood friends he knew long ago. Twenty years ago, they were a trio of foster children. They made a pact: to go to San Francisco, where they might find some sanctuary. Joe and Simone made it, but Joe never left. But now, all these years later, Levi is going to fulfill that promise.

But the people Levi discovers are not the same ones he has in his head. Once an angry young straight man, Joe is now a married gay man with a child with a lifetime of failed possibilities. And like Levi, Joe has his demons he's fighting in the ghost of his long dead foster father. And Simone has returned from San Francisco to start her life and rebuild from the ashes of a miserable childhood. Levi has to reconcile his illusions of his friends with their realities and crisscross the country to bring all three of them back together. 

SAN FRAN is a sharp tongues dramedy is the school of SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK, SIDEWAYS and LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, where misfits try to find a place in this world because your only family isn't the one you are given, but the one that you make.

 
 

 

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The films "LEVI", "SIMON", and "DEREK" are 3 short films. Each short film follows the lives of the characters (all played by Jason. A. Drago) Simon, Derek, and Levi and their lives prior to the feature “SAN FRAN”. "SAN FRAN" is currently being produced for 2017. For more insight into what the vision and direction behind "SAN FRAN" watch a special message from the director, Ricardo Luis Amell. (vimeo.com/207465764)

 

San Fran Synopsis

Levi is hitting his midlife crisis a little early. He's also a former foster child with no sense of future. But in his past is with him always in the form of Joe and Simone, two imaginary childhood friends he knew long ago. Twenty years ago, they were a trio of foster children. They made a pact: to go to San Francisco, where they might find some sanctuary. Joe and Simone made it, but Joe never left. But now, all these years later, Levi is going to fulfill that promise.

But the people Levi discovers are not the same ones he has in his head. Once an angry young straight man, Joe is now a married gay man with a child with a lifetime of failed possibilities. And like Levi, Joe has his demons he's fighting in the ghost of his long dead foster father. And Simone has returned from San Francisco to start her life and rebuild from the ashes of a miserable childhood. Levi has to reconcile his illusions of his friends with their realities and crisscross the country to bring all three of them back together. 

SAN FRAN is a sharp tongues dramedy is the school of SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK, SIDEWAYS and LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, where misfits try to find a place in this world because your only family isn't the one you are given, but the one that you make.

 
 

 

Directed by: 
Ricardo Luis Amell
Writing credits: 
Rafael Ruiz Ricardo Luis Amell
Cast: 
Jason A. Drago
Produced by: 
Pedro Lucero
Release Date: 
Monday, March 27, 2017
Total votes: 1550

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