Indie movie Premiere- To help Animals
June 22, 6:00 PM red Carpet
Cocowalk movie theaters
Paragon Grove 13
3015 Grand Avenue, Cocowalk
Coconut Grove, Miami, FL 33133.
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Independent Filmmaker Focuses On Actors And Their Creativity!
Premiere of “Equal Strength†The Movie!
Hammond Films created this project believing in the actors’ capacity for creation. The director, Ika Santamaria, put together a group of eleven local actors to implement a process in which they would build the characters, develop their traits and background information, and even name their own characters. Based on those characters, the group improvised short stories, created basic sketches and formed groups to keep improvising. Through this they developed a plot, which became the main tool to write the final screenplay of “Equal Strength.”
The Miami Premiere with talent and crew in attendance will be held at the Paragon Grove 13, Cocowalk, Coconut Grove, FL on Wednesday, June 22, 2011. The red carpet and reception will start at 6:00 PM and the screening will be at 7:30 PM.
It’s really amazing that we were able to have so much support in order to make this film happen. Even without a budget we got incredible locations and important elements needed to make our film. We obtained the full use of a large marina where the owner allowed us to use his private yacht. We also acquired access to automobiles, an animal hospital, a ranch, animal shelters, houses, a hospital, offices in downtown and lots of dogs and horses!
The story is about Taylor Westrom who will quickly learn that to accomplish his noble mission of saving millions of animals, he must confront his own boss. The same boss who is linked to illegal operations with a group of veterinarians, to the point of risking his life. In trying to resolve this ordeal, Miami-Dade Police Captain Jodi Tucker will also have to keep an eye on Detective Sanchez because of his unconventional style of applying the law. They will both try to resolve the crisis involving human beings and animals, resulting in a life and death struggle.
This is the beginning of our filmmaking career, and we are very proud of the final result. From the first meeting with the actors until our final draft in the editing room, the entire process took 12 months. Wonderful! We have other upcoming projects that will be done in a more conventional way. However, this one will always be special because if there is one word that describes this experience it is: “empowering”!
Produced by Joseph Anthony Hammond
Written, Directed, and Edited by Ika Santamaria
Staring Ryan Teasauro, Noa Lindberg, Miguel Sahid, Kira Stockwell, Elioret Silva, Robyn Jessica Cohen, Nelida Palmer, Brent Battles, Marc Daniel Katz, Jair Bula and Katia Pineda.,
Cinematography Joseph Anthony Hammond
Music by Danny Garcia, Nina Llopis and Andrew Gross
