By MICHAEL GINGOLD
A music-video shoot gone very bad will be available for home viewing later this month.
Freestyle Digital Media has announced a March 18 release of DIRECTOR’S CUT on North American digital HD internet, cable and satellite platforms and DVD, following its theatrical play last Halloween. Written and directed by Don Capria, it stars Louis Lombardi, Lucy Hart, Tyler Ivey, Danielle Kotch, Greg Poppa, Louis Rocky Bacigalupo, Brandy Ochoa, Haley Cassidy and Darrin Hickok, with makeup effects by Brian Spears. The synopsis: “In DIRECTOR’S CUT, a Long Island punk band meets a mysterious director [Lombardi] through social media who generously offers to shoot their first music video for free. Desperate for fame, they drive deep into the Pennsylvania woods in hopes of making a killer music video. But after a long night of drinking with the gregarious director, the band wakes up to find a very different version of him on set. Egos and opinions clash, with the director unveiling a terrible anger and uncompromising need for total control. As his professionalism breaks down, so does his sanity–with the unhinged director and his assistant turning the band members into the unwitting stars of his very own snuff film.”
“I wrote DIRECTOR’S CUT as a band drama and drove the characters into a deadly situation,” Capria says. “This person they meet, Mister Director, represents the evil in the music business. DIRECTOR’S CUT is a cautionary tale to the youth of today to mind your surroundings and tread carefully when you are seeking fame and fortune–there are some dangerous people out there waiting for you, especially in the entertainment industry.”
