Goodnight is a film about a teenager's addiction to prescription pills and his attempt to accept that suffering is healthy and part of who we are.
Director’s Statement:
In the early morning of January 10, 2006 I received a phone call that Mariana Edkins my ex-girlfriend and best female friend of 6 years had been killed by a drunk driver. I sat in shock that the person I loved so dearly was gone forever. Over the next four years I buried five friends at the hands of intoxicated drivers (either from popping pills, being drunk, or being hit).
This film is my post card to everyone I have lost and anyone that has lost someone to an intoxicated driver.
This film is my post card to everyone I have lost and anyone that has lost someone to an intoxicated driver.
Key Crew
Director - Phil Giordano
Phil Giordano knew from a young age that his mind thought in
movies. As an only child, instead of playing with toys, he
would use his imagination to add onto tv shows or
movies he had seen. He would put himself in the narrative, change character arc's, and add new characters into the story.
Phil didn't realize until his junior year of college that it was possible to make movies on his own. Over the next four years he directed 11 short films, and worked on countless shorts, feature films, commercials, and music videos in all facets of production.
Phil didn't realize until his junior year of college that it was possible to make movies on his own. Over the next four years he directed 11 short films, and worked on countless shorts, feature films, commercials, and music videos in all facets of production.
In 2008, Phil co-wrote the script Wednesday's Farewell which won the 'Best Of' screenwriting competition on Francis Ford Coppola's website zoetrope.com.
Most recently, Phil directed The Empty Playground which was
awarded The Golden Palm at the Mexico International Film
Festival.
Cinematographer - Adam Mcdaid
Adam is a cinematographer based in New York and Los Angeles. Ever since he was a little kid, he has been getting in trouble for spending too much time looking out windows and daydreaming.
It makes sense that he fell in love with cinematography – an art that requires unique vision and a talent to see the minute details that reveal elements of story, character and emotion via composition and light.
It makes sense that he fell in love with cinematography – an art that requires unique vision and a talent to see the minute details that reveal elements of story, character and emotion via composition and light.
Having completed his training at the American Film Institute with an MFA in Cinematography in 2006, Adam has been busy shooting narratives, commercials, music videos and docs in all formats - 35mm, Super16 and HD. Recently, Adam had the opportunity to hone is craft under Janusz Kaminski as his camera intern on Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
He shot Una y Otra Vez, which was accepted into the Slamdance film festival in 2009 and won Best Narrative Short at the Los Angeles Film Festival.
Adam is a visual storyteller who looks for projects that are
challenging, collaborative and push the medium forward. Adam
still hasn’t stopped daydreaming.
Writer - Loren Marsh
Loren Marsh wrote, produced and directed the acclaimed short film "Virginity" starring Amanda Peet (The Whole Nine Yards, Saving Silverman, Jack and Jill) that played at the Berlin Film Festival, the Telluride Film Festival, the Los Angeles
Independent Film Festival and the Hamptons Film Festival among many others around the world.
While "Virginity" was traveling the festival circuit, Loren
accepted a graduate fellowship from Stanford University. After receiving his master's degree in Latin and Ancient Greek, Loren wrote, produced and directed Mission, a CinemaScope feature set in the Mission District of San Francisco starring Joshua Leonard and recently released by Vanguard.
Loren also wrote the Sundance 2005 short film "The Youth in Us" directed by Joshua Leonard. Invitation to a Suicide, his second feature as writer, producer and director, had its world premiere at the AFI Los Angeles Film Festival in November 2004.
Producer - Dan Clifton
Director Dan Clifton has always been involved in the world of arts and entertainment. Born in London, England to two creative parents (an actor and a painter) Dan took an interest in film and television at an early age.
Graduating from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Clifton began to direct high-concept commercials and music videos in New York. In 2008 Clifton wrote, directed and produced the short film For All Mankind, a dedication to the action-adventure films he loved growing up. A Wasserman Award nominee for Best Picture at the NYU First Run Film Festival in 2009, For All Mankind was later screened at the Director’s Guild of America in Los Angeles.
Partnering with fellow NYU grad David Brooks, Clifton formed
Onset Films in 2008 and signed a first-look development deal with Gold Circle Films. Moving their office to Santa Monica, Clifton and Brooks will produce their first feature ATM with Gold Circle in 2010.
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