“DIRTY WORK,” a feature from Jennifer Vincent’s Blue Horseshoe Productions, is in postproduction with Sharon Zurek editing. Award- winning Bruce Terris (“Flying”) co-wrote the script, originally titled “southside,” with Rick Rose and directed.
DP David Blood shot it last winter on Chicago locations with a Panasonic AG-DVX100A 24P standard definition. I-Cubed will output to film.
Starring Lance Reddick (“The Wire”), Mike McGlone (“Brothers McMullen”), Nutsa Kukhianidze (“The Good Thief”) and Austin Pendleton (“A Beautiful Mind,” “Guarding Tess”) the story is about the choices that four unrelated characters have to make when their lives become entangled in the aftermath of a brutal murder.
Executive producer is Lawrence Mattis; Vincent and Christina Varotsis producers; supervising sound editor Adam Frick; original score by Mark Messing. See www.bluehorseshoeprod.com.
GREGORY RUNFELDT is developing the episodic feature “The Abattoir of Happiness” for a planned shoot early next year. Runfeldt describes “Abattoir” as a “cavalcade of surreal scenes,” drawing allusions to Monty Python and Luis Bu?uel. “Usually independent films don’t take many chances in terms of narrative,” Runfeldt said. “I want to raise the bar and do something more interesting and unique.”
Runfeldt, a Columbia College alum, is raising the low-five-figure budget for the DV shoot through his Midlothian-based Half-Lung Club Productions. A freelance journalist, Runfeldt was an editor for Sports Channel Chicago (now Fox Sports Net) and a corporate producer for Motorola. Reach him at zerzakl@hotmail.com.
