A black & white satire by the cynics Jared Hopkins & N. T. Bullock
In a quirky Cold War-era vibe, 'I Ran Against Us' tells the story of an American couple, Jon and Sandy, who have gone through the typical breakup. Out of nowhere, The President of Iran (Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) threatens the United States with massive destruction if Jon and Sandy do not get back together.
A U.S. government agent is sent in to force a reunion - at all costs - in the name of national security. The situation goes awry when Jon and Sandy have yet another falling out, this time broadcast live to the world. Mirroring the fragile relationships between nations, a new war is hinged on
Jon and Sandy's ability to reconcile.
SPECS
Running time: 77 minutes
Year completed: 2012
Format: 24p DVCPRO HD / Aspect ratio 16:9 / 24 fps / Stereo / COLOR
CONTACT
Jared Hopkins, Producer - 601.918.9644
CAST & CREW
Written by the cynics
Jared and N.T. Bullock
Directed by
N.T. Bullock
Produced by
Jared Hopkins
Director of Photography
Nathan Tape
Production Designer
Ashley Ebanks
Costume Designer
Ashley Martin
Original Music by
Harry Hansen
Casting by
Elizabeth Coulon
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Jon Mackintosh
Sandy Redmond
Focal
Burnsy
Fechetti
Brittany
Agent #1
Agent #2
Brad
Jenna Bartlett
Tanner Heismann
Amir
Patricia
Superior
Truck Driver
Mexican Man
Terrorist #1
Terrorist #2
Terrorist #3
Mexican Punching |
GRIFFIN HOOD
LEANNE COCHRAN
LADSON DEYNE
COREY STEWART
LARA GRICE
MARCELLE BAER
FRANKIE LYNCH
JAMES HEBERT
MATT MADDEN
ELIZABETH MCNULTY
CHARLIE DETRAZ
BILL DYKES
YVONNE LANDRY
JERRY LEE LEIGHTON
DANE RHODES
NICK LOPEZ
NEDAL YOUSEF
DAN IZEN
JAMEY OSBORNE
RON URIBE of the Sun |
MORE CREDITS...
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FILMMAKER'S BACKGROUND
Jared Hopkins - Producer / Writer / Editor
Jared is a resident of New Orleans. Has spent the last six years working as an assistant director in the film industry on films such as Premonition, Over Her Dead Body, Factory Girl, Pride, and most recently on The Imagination Movers. He is also an award-winning screenwriter/director. His short film A Few Simple Truths was awarded an Emerging Filmmaker Grant from the Mississippi Film and Video Alliance. Jared has also produced the award-winning short films, Foster and You're Too.
N.T. Bullock, Director / Writer / Editor
N. T. Bullock began creating independent short movies in 1999, presenting them on his website SequentialPictures, which has received worldwide attention from the Internet [Yahoo! News, MSNBC, WIRED], to print [Newsday, LA Times, Washington Post, and several foreign magazines in countries such as Norway, Japan, France, & Italy], and also mentioned on MSNBC television.
Sequential Pictures has had millions of viewers who have accessed a wide range of media including Bullock's originally produced music. During this time N.T. has also run his own freelance web-design and commercial production company.
 So we wrote a script? Now what? Well, we make it. Problem is we've written scripts before. They were too expensive to make for this first-time Director/Producer duo. So, let's write a script that's cheaper - fewer locations, fewer props, fewer of everything. Well, we went and did that in January 2008 with, I Ran Against Us. Then we re-learned that even the simplist of scripts take a monumental effort. So we've got a script, now what? Funding is always tricky, especially your first time. You've got no feature-length track record to show investors. At some point, unless you're extremely privileged, you've got to really concede on certain elements to get it done. Our first script we wrote years ago we estimated the budget at about $400K including the film transfer. Ok, too much? How about we try to produce it ourselves for $30K? Gotta start somewhere. We've finally finished the movie and are learning what it takes to get your movie to the masses.
Check my personal PRODUCTION JOURNAL for updates on the project's progess.
- N.T. Bullock |
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