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Cassandra

Nathaniel Turner's Cassandra

Directed by Nathaniel Turner Produced by Nathaniel Turner Written by Nathaniel Turner Starring Nina Shamloo

Norman Reategui

A. A. Corbin Puryear

Floyd Henderson

Melly Turner

Sarah Richardson

Thomas Vance

Tiffany Ames

Shira Goldeen

Music by Nathaniel Turner Cinematography Nathaniel Turner Editing by Nathaniel Turner Studio Blue Ridge Pictures Release date(s) February 4th, 2011

Film Festivals Running time 74 mins. Country United States Language English Cassandra (also known as Nathaniel Turner's Cassandra) is a 2011 independent psychological drama thriller film that was inspired by greek mythology particuarlly on Homer's Illiad and Odessy. The film was written and directed and scored by new coming filmmaker Nathaniel Turner and introduces Nina Shamloo, Norman Reategui and A. A. Corbin Puryear in their first full length feature film.

The film takes place on the outskirts of the University of Virginia, and follows William Torres who falls in love with the girl from next door, but desperate love brings desperate change. As the story unfolds and whats starts off as a romantic comedy turns into a spin chilling thriller.

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Contents [hide] 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 4 Release 5 Score 6 Trailer 7 Clip 8 References 9 External links

[edit]Plot William Torres (Reategui) struggles to find a name for himself in the art world while going to school and working part time at a cafe. At this time in his life, he's ready to be in a relationship however he finds that's not easy either.

His best friend and co-worker Peter (Puryear) keeps reminding him to hold to the things that matter and keep developing his dreams.

As the film proceeds, one morning William sees his new next door neighbors: Sheriff Sander (Henderson) and his beautiful and trapped daughter Cassandra.

Finding out that she's living in a controlling and abusive home, William desperately tries to rescue her from this prison environment. And fate happens...

[edit]Cast

Nina Shamloo as Cassandra Sanders Norman Reategui as William Torres A. A. Corbin Puryear as Peter Funderburk Floyd Henderson as Sheriff Philemon Sanders Melly Turner as Maddy Torres

[edit]Production Cassandra was filmed in and around Charlottesville and Palmyra Virginia from August to October of 2010. Several incidents, schedule conflicts and injuries occured during fiilming.

Director Nathaniel Turner injured his hand on the second day of filming and shot the movie predominately with one hand and the other hand had a cast on it.

Actor Floyd Henderson, injured his back and arm during an intense sequence for the film.

Finding the actress to play Cassandra was a very long and difficult process. Eight different actress passed on playing the lead role, claiming it was "a very difficult and overwhelming role to perform." After two weeks into filming, the director found "the right girl" and luckily many of the male leads already knew her and each other.

Many of the actors were UVA seniors and filming had to be done in and around their school schedule.

During filming, most of the actors and crew had such a great time that they even forgot they were making a serious intense film.

Post-production (which started on the first day of filming), including film editing, color correction, sound effects and music took 6 months to complete. In one scene alone there are over 500 sound effects and 70 different color correction layers.

[edit]Release Cassandra was shown on February 4th at PVCC and is now in the process of auditioning for film festivals. It is looking for a distributor.

Second Poster of Cassandra

[edit]Score Nathaniel Turner composed and performed the musical score on a Kawai Digital Piano. "Cassandra's Theme" is based on a 200 BC lyric song "Epitaph of Seikilos". Nathaniel wrote the score for a boys choir, female singer, harp, piano, guitar and string quartet.

The musical score includes themes for each of the main characters to define their personality and emotions. Samples from the film score:

"Cassandra's Theme"

"William's Theme"

"Peter's Theme"

"William & Peter"

"Will Always Love You"

"You Do Know the Mail Came Earlier"

[edit]Trailer

When the trailer was released on youtube over 500 views were shown the first week. [edit]

Clip

Clip from the actual film:

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References

"Cassandra" a fictional character from the Illaid by Homer

Cassandra at the IMDB (coming soon) Cassandra Film at facebook Cassandra Film at youtube [