One Year Lease

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Short Documentaries
Old Town Playhouse Sat, Aug 2, 2014 12:00 PM
Sponsored by: Williams Chevrolet, Inc.
Featuring the top award-winning documentaries from Sundance and Tribeca, these eight powerful shorts include “One Year Lease,” a cautionary tale about renting an apartment in New York City, told through the voicemail messages of the tenants’ cat-loving landlady; “A Hole in the Sky,” a stirring portrait of life for a young woman in rural Somalia; “The Silly Bastard Next to the Bed,” a stranger-than-fiction account of one of the funniest phone calls ever made from the Oval Office during the Kennedy administration (it would make an excellent script for an episode of “Veep”); and tailor-made for the summer of the World Cup final, “Maradona ’86,” which tells the fascinating story of a controversial soccer icon.
Film Info
Section:Shorts
Release Year:2014
Runtime:11 min.
Production Country:USA
Original Language:English
Cast/Crew Info
Cast:Brian Bolster
Thomas Harrington
Director:Brian Bolster
Produced by:Brian Bolster
Cinematography:Brian Bolster
Editing By:Anthony Sherin

Description

Ahhh, renting an apartment in New York City - tiny, 'challenging' spaces coupled with enormous rents are to be expected. The most eccentric of landlords...directly above you…with an itchy speed-dial finger? - perhaps not as common. Told almost entirely through voice mail messages, "One Year Lease" documents the travails of Brian, Thomas and Casper as they endure a year-long sentence with Rita the cat-loving landlady. Sometimes the calls not coming from INside the house, BUT from the apartment upstairs, can be just as scary…or, well, just downright bizarre.

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