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Writer:
Director:
Producer:
Picture Editor:
Music Composer:
Director of Photography:
Sound Editor:
Producer:
Assistant Director:
Location Manager:
Production Assistant:
Art Department:
Special Thanks:
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Chris Horvath
Chris Ferreira
Brian Copenhagen
Erika Baldwin
Alex Desrochers
Alex Smith
Jessica Levai
Dalila Solis
Nicole Harrison
Blake Welpton
Corinne Welpton
Mykah Larkins
Jim Larkins
Adrian Horvath
Greg Carson
Tim Kerns
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CAST
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Lance:
Barney:
Pete:
Jake:
Voice of Sam:
Hank:
Franklin:
Lars:
Weed Guy:
Pyramid Guy:
Steve:
Intellectual Guy:
Debbie:
Guy on Porch:
Guy with Remote:
Ralph Zimmerman:
Gollum:
Guy Toasting:
Girl on Porch #1:
Girl on Porch #2:
Corey:
French Guy #1:
French Guy #2:
French Guy #3:
French Guy #4:
Franklin's Girl:
Ted:
Secretary:
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Reeve Howard
Michael Goorjian
Chris Ferreira
Chris Horvath
David Ingenthron
Burgin Bailey
Benjamin Silverman
Alex Smith
Aaron Edwards
Alex Derochers
Danny Sherman
Brian Copenhagen
Sydney Bennet
Jeremy Ward
Blake Welpton
Raoul Krakowski
Paul Karst
Spencer Silva
Dalila Solis
Nicole Harrison
Corey McLaughlin
Alex deSoria
Mehdi Bouarek
Sylvain Carton
Philippe Kennedy
Jessica Levai
John Paul Goorjian
Erika Baldwin |
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CHRIS
HORVATH
("Jake" /
Writer / Director / Editor / Producer) |
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Chris Horvath graduated from San Francisco State University
in 1997 with a degree in Cinema and promptly went out and
forgot everything he was told. Thus was born LEISURE.
Of course, this type of filmmaking is not very profitable
as of yet, so when Chris is not actually sitting at his
iMac editing the same movie over and over again, he's delivering
pizzas.
Other cool film stuff Chris has done; writer on
THE ILLUSION
and Prop Master on GROOVE.
Other cool video stuff Chris has done; co-founder
of ANIMX Studios, director of the SHOWCASE
MAGAZINE VIDEO SHOW and resident video editor for
911 Entertaiment... all three of which
went bankrupt. Oh well, you win some, you lose some. |
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CHRIS
FERREIRA
("Pete" / Original Music Composer) |
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Chris Ferreira has been involved in music composition
and film in the Bay Area for some years. His early credits
include student and independent short films of a wide range,
many of which went on to show at festivals around the country.
His first feature film collaboration was with Michael Goorjian
on the locally produced OAKLAND UNDERGROUND.
His recent credits include Art Director and the character
of "Bill" in the locally produced GROOVE,
which was purchased by Sony Pictures Classics and enjoyed
success in theatres throughout the country and the part
of "Jesus" in the short film RIPPLE
which was shown at the Cannes film festival.
Chris recently finished the composing the soundtrack for
THE ILLUSION.
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BRIAN
COPENHAGEN
(Director of Photography/ Sound Editor) |
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An Oakland native, Brian Copenhagen has been courting
sound and music since age eight when he picked up the cello.
For many years, Brian continued his close relationship with
music, developing skills on trombone, acoustic and electric
bass, drums, and guitar. This led naturally to an interest
in sound, and he began recording his own bands in 1990.
He turned toward the world of film in 1995, when he undertook
recording production sound for several 16mm films with graduate
students at Loyola Marymount University. In the following
years, Brian worked as a production sound mixer for films
shot on 35mm, 16mm, DV, and High Definition. His affinity
for music has continued through sound design and composing
for short films.
Brian recently wrapped production on Ball Lightning, a High-Definition
short film written by Barry Gifford, a co-writer of Wild
at Heart and Lost Highway. He continues to teach a course
in Location/Production Sound at the Academy of Art College
in San Francisco, and work as a freelance sound mixer for
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MICHAEL
GOORJIAN
("Barney") |
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At
this early stage of his career, Michael Goorjian has already
established himself as an actor of great diversity. As a
writer/director he has explored unique and creative avenues
of the independent film world.
Michael's acting credits include SLC
PUNK! (Sony Pictures Classics); HARD
RAIN (Paramount); the Oscar nominated film
LEAVING
LAS VEGAS (MGM/UA); NEWSIES
(Buena Vista); CHAPLIN
(Tristar); FOREVER
YOUNG (Warner Bros.), DO
NOT DISTURB (starring William Hurt and Dennis
Leary.) THE
INVISIBLES (Sundance selection, opposite Portia
DeRossi), and AMERIKANA (produced by Zentropa/Dogma 95).
Michael spends much of his time perfecting his creative
bent as the founder of Maldoror Productions, Inc. He recently
completed his first feature film, OAKLAND UNDERGROUND as
the writer/director. Michael has also written and directed
the short films LIEBER NOX and RON and he directed this
year's winner for best short film at the Arizona Film Festival,
CALL WAITING.
He starred in the television series PARTY OF FIVE, which
won the 1995 Golden Globe Award for Best Drama, and played
"Justin," the childhood best friend and romantic
interest, opposite Neve Campbell's "Julia."
Michael is a founding member of The Buffalo Nights Theater
Company, a theater organization formed by a small group
of UCLA graduates.
Other interesting facts about Michael Goorjian: his father
is a physicist at NASA and Michael himself enjoys studying
quantum physics, he is an Eagle Scout and a part-time professor
at Loyola Marymount University. Michael drives a 1986 Chevy
Caprice formally owned by the Los Angeles Police Department.
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ALEX
SMITH
("Lars"
/ Location Manager) |
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Alex
Smith is 31. He was born in Silicon Valley, has lived in
the Midwest, Los Angeles, and Oakland. His values
were formed in the Midwest, warped in L.A. and straightened
out again in Oakland.
He was an English major at UCLA then dropped out to escape
L.A. and move to Oakland. He is hoping to become an
Oakland Firefighter, but for now is managing and tending
bar at Cato's - where most of Leisure was filmed.
This is where he met Chris Horvath and most of the cast
and crew.
For fun, Alex likes to read, cook, golf, take one class
per semester at local community colleges, write lyrics for
the band he sings in, go foraging for mushrooms, bike occasionally,
brew beer, go to the gym or jog w/ his dog to keep in shape,
and drink with friends.
He had a blast filming Leisure and loves the whole cast
and crew.
Little trivia: he started smoking again for his role as
Lars, and wasn't able to quit again until almost six months
after finishing filming. |
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Burgin
Bailey
("Hank") |
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Burgin
was born one stormy September night in a small fishing village
near the Morrocco/Germany border on the banks of an unnamed
river.
By the age of thirteen he knew he was different than the
other village boys, and on the eve of the tribe's rituallistic
festival in which all the thirteen year old males were to
pass from youth to manhood, he fled in his newly made bamboo
canoe to a nearby airport.
Once there, he snuck aboard, and has never looked back.
He made his way across several continents to the bright
lights of a big city called Oakland.
He
now resides in the Piedmont Avenue neighborhood, and makes
his living through tending bar and acting for free in
local small films.
Burgin is 41 years old. He has never oficially participated
in any ritual in which a boy becomes a man. Thank you.
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