BREAKING NEWS!
THE PIG FARM is Screening in One Week!
Monday, July 21st-- at the (really nice) Bungalow Club in LA!
7:30pm - 9:30pm
7174 Melrose Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90046
TheBungalowClub.com
Free for All! Drinks 1/2 Price!
If You're Free, Come on Down For Some Fun and Say 'Hi'!
"A weirdly ingratiating, strangely sophisticated, gross-out gangster flick..."
-Amy Taubin, The Village Voice
"This one was an impressive debut by newcomer Michael Barlin..."
-Edison Carter, Aint It Cool News
A Film About A Hick, A Hit-man, and the Other, OTHER, White Meat
| FYI, THE PIG FARM is Screening in One Week! Monday, July 21st at the (really nice) Bungalow Club in LA! 7:30pm - 9:30pm 7174 Melrose Ave Los Angeles, CA 90046 TheBungalowClub.com Free for All! Drinks 1/2 Price! If You're Free, Come on Down For Some Fun and Say 'Hi'! |
Written, Directed & Produced by Michael Lee Barlin
INDIEWIRE.COM's "DAILY PICK" - Tues, August 7, 2001
WINNER!!!
BEST FEATURE
Firstglance Film Festival - Philadelphia, PA
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WINNER!!!
BEST FILM! - FILM IS A FOUR-LETTER WORD CATEGORY
ValleyFest Film Festival - Knoxville, TN
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WINNER!!!
DIRECTOR'S CHOICE AWARD
BARE BONES AUTEUR 2001 - HONORABLE NOMINEE
BARE BONES DRAMATIC FEATURE - HONORABLE NOMINEE
Bare Bones Film Festival - Muskogee, OK
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WINNER!!!
FEATURE FILM WINNER
Telluride Indiefest - Telluride, CO
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Official Selection:
The Kiosk Cafe - Glendale, CA - Summerfest - May 2002 / Ajijic International Film Festival - Ajijic, Mexico - November 2001 / FirstGlance Film Festival - Los Angeles - November 2001 - HONORARY SCREENING / Seattle Underground Film Festival - Seattle, WA - October 2001 / NewFilmmakers Program - Anthology Film Archives - New York City - August 2001 / Cinevue International Film Festival - Florida - June 2001 / Bare Bones Film Festival - Muskogee, OK - April 2001 - WINNER! / FirstGlance Film Festival - Philadelphia, PA - March 2001 - WINNER! / Valleyfest Film Festival - Knoxville, TN - March 2001 - WINNER! / Fargo Film Festival - Fargo, ND - March 2001 / AngelCiti Film Festival - Los Angeles - February 2001 / Director's View Film Festival - CT - February 2001 / Sarasota Film Festival - FL - January 2001 / Telluride IndieFest - CO - December 2000 - WINNER! / Dances With Films - Los Angeles - June 2000 - PREMIERE!
The Pitch:
A Film About Two Guys Burying Dead Bodies in a Pig Pen,
THE PIG FARM revolves around the unlikely pairing between a back-woods zero
from upstate New York
and a entrepreneurial hit-man from New York City.
An outlandish tale of laziness and greed gone bad.
Story Synopsis:
A Modern Day Gangster-Western-Noir (an 'Eastern?') set in a small town,
THE PIG FARM, is a sordid tale about Upstate New York local Rusty Showers (Richard Alan Johnston), who is trying to make ends meet with both a landscaping company and four fat pigs.
Everything changes for Rusty the day he is approached by Joey Manlioni (Jason Hildebrandt), a mysterious man from New York City who represents an organization looking to pay somebody $1000 a month to bury construction rubbish in their property.
Accepting the offer, Rusty soon discovers the true nature of this organization when Joey shows up again a week later with a different kind of "rubbish" and asks permission to bury it in Rusty’s pig-pen: Namely dead bodies.
From there, Rusty finds himself in way over his head as he realizes the person he has befriended is a hitman on the run from his own mob and also trying to make ends meet, but doing it the only way he knows how…
by killing anyone who tries to stop him.
PRESS!
Village Voice Review
Aint-It-Cool-News Review
CAST & CREW LIST
"...laced with snappy dialogue and some good characters..."
