About
This short comedy (and we mean short) comes in at under 3 minutes. Showing off their comedic stylings are real-life married couple Jessica Arinella and Matt Rashid.
FESTIVAL INFORMATION
The NYC Downtown Film Festival included Kung Pow Wow as part of their Audience Choice Screenings on March 19th-21st. Because of the popularity of the film, we got into the actual film festival and screened there on May 2nd! More info can be found here: www.nycdowntownfilmfestival.com
Kung Pow Wow also screened at the Berkshires Film Festival. This is a great festival and the Berkshires is just a beautiful area. www.biffma.com
In early September of '09 "Kung Pow Wow" screened at The Chicago International Reel Shorts Film Festival.
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We are also happy to announce that this comedy has gotten into the New Hampshire 2009 Film Festival and the 2010 Method Festival in Los Angeles (The Method Fest).
Summary
Dating is difficult, especially when you order in. "Kung Pow Wow" is comedic tale about an argument between a couple when the boyfriend isn't sensitive to the needs of his girlfriend's taste buds.REVIEWS
Check out this incredible review of our short ditty, Kung Pow Wow:
BERKSHIRE LIVING MAG
5.13.09
The only thing wrong with Kung Pow Wow, a short film that will be screened this weekend at the Berkshire International Film Festival (BIFF) at the Triplex Cinema in Great Barrington, Mass., is that it's only two minutes long. Then again, that's part of the film's genius. In just two short minutes, the filmmakers and actors give us essentially the entire lowdown on a relationship. In this case, the simple act of ordering Chinese takeout -- one of the most romantic cliches in film and in real life -- turns into a horror threatening the very foundations of what seemed like a perfectly fine relationship. How the filmmakers achieve this effect I won't say -- I will leave that to the joy of discovery -- but it's enough to say that it is through inventiveness and a willingness to disorient a viewer in the service of achieving the remarkable effect.
If this is a hint of what's in store this weekend from BIFF, it's going to be a great festival.
If you're in the Great Barrington area, check out this wonderful festival!
For the most up-to-date information on all of OTL's short films, check out our short films blog at: ontheleeshshortfilms.blogspot.com
Cast & Crew
Crew
Produced by...Alicia Arinella and Julie Tortorici
Directed by...Diana Whitten
Written by... Phil Kain
Edited by...Alicia Arinella
Cast
Holly...Jessica Arinella
Dimitri...Matt Rashid
Cast Bios
Jessica Arinella: Selected NY Credits: Tape (Naked Angels, dir. Geoffrey Nauffts), The Naked Angels Lab (Premiere), The Democracy Project (Naked Angels, With Mark Margolis), Sin (On the Leesh Productions), Antigone (Pilot House).) Harper Lee’s Husband ( Samuel French) Regional Theatre: Rough Crossing ( Northern Stage D. Nancy Robillard) New York Stage & Film: Break (OTLP & Naked Angels, w/ Frank Wood). Film & Television Credits: ”Rescue Me” , “Six Degrees”, “Love Monkey,” “Law & Order” ,“What are the Odds?” (OTLP) “The Pink House” (Cineblast! and Asset Pictures), “Cupidity” (D. John Gallagher) “For Belly” (OTLP) “The In betweens of Holly Malone” ( Blip.tv) “In the Can” ( Blip.tv)
Matt Rashid: NY Theatre: Fear Project (Naked Angels, dir. Rob Morrow), Naked Angels Lab (Premiere), Democracy Project (Naked Angels, dir. Pippin Parker), Sin (On the Leesh Productions), Syria, America (Emerging Artists Theatre). New York Stage & Film: Break: Surviving the Recovery (OTLP & Naked Angels, w/ Tony award winner Frank Wood). NY Stand-up Comedy: Caroline’s Comedy Club, Gotham Comedy Club, Don’t Tell Mama’s, Nuyorican Poet’s Café. Film & Television Credits include: Law & Order (NBC), Mad About You (NBC), Table for Three (OTLP), Soap Scum (OTLP). Currently in the Nano-series The In-Betweens of Holly Malone (blip.tv). MFA, Actor’s Studio Drama Program, The New School.
Crew Bios
Alicia Arinella (Producer, Co-Director, Editor): For the past eight years, Alicia Arinella has worked in various aspects of Film and Theatrical production. Her credits include: stage management for regional and New York Theater, publicity and promotional work for Fine Line Features and New Line Cinema, editing and production coordinating for terraNOVA Collective, Asset Pictures and cineBlast!, associate producing for Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., Noggin and Granada Kids, and producing projects for Little Airplane Productions, Playhouse Disney, New York Stage and Film, terraNOVA Collective, Our Time Theatre Company and the Naked Angels Theater Company. Alicia founded On the Leesh Productions in 1999 with her documentary, Interval. With On the Leesh, Alicia has been happy to produce the first work for many new writers including: Justin Spitzer of NBC’s The Office, Jenna Bans of ABC’s Desperate Housewives, Private Practice and Grey’s Anatomy and producing the directorial debuts of acclaimed New York theater writers and directors: Lucie Tiberghien, Michael Mastro and Sex and the City writer, Liz Tuccillo. Alicia is a frequent guest lecturer at The New School and has served on various entertainment panels. Alicia has produced eight short films screening at over 30 film festivals worldwide including: Cannes, Sarasota, Atlanta, Nantucket, Durango Independent, and San Francisco Independent. Awards: The Muse: A Girl’s Delicious Daydream About a Dangerous Man – 2nd place Short Film Experimental, 2006 Indie Gathering. With OTL, Alicia has also produced a number of theater projects including: the Naked Angels Issues Project: Democracy, Help Me Help Myself, Our Time Theatre Company’s 3rd Annual Benefit, SIN: A New Fashioned Spectacle of Legendary Vice, and most recently, Masquerade: calypso and home with terraNOVA Collective. Alicia is the editor of Table for Three, Denim, The Things We Know, For Belly and the hit web-series The In-Betweens of Holly Malone, In the Can and The Sexually. As a director, Alicia worked on the short film, Table for Three, a number of episodes of the popular web-series, The In-Betweens of Holly Malone, as well as the entire first and second seasons of In the Can and the first season of The Sexually. For the stage, Alicia has directed the one-woman show, Belly and has most recently produced and co-directed the feature film, For Belly, with Matt Rashid.
Phil Kain (Writer): The New York Times referred to Kain as "a terrific comic, unassuming, hilariously earnest and even poignant." His performances have been seen at Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, The Joyce, City Center, PS 122, Dixon Place and Dance Theater Workshop as well as regionally and internationally. He teaches writing at Barnard College and New York University and his essays and writing have appeared in Newsday, Time Out, The Forward, The Atlanta Journal Constitution and The Houston Chronicle among others. Kain is currently working on the first of two books under contract for Simon & Schuster about a girl, who sets out to fix her social life using scientific methods.
