Online PR News – 23-February-2016 – New York, NY – NEW YORK, NY – 2/22/16 – People Artistic LLC is excited to announce their first feature film, Heavy Shadows. Based on an original screenplay by People Artistic co-founders Shing Ka and Paul Mammano, from a story by Mammano, the movie addresses the important issue of childhood obesity, a problem brought to national attention by Presidential First Lady Michelle Obama. Ka and Mammano also serve as producers.
Veteran indie filmmaker John Andrew Gallagher has been attached as director, with a team including his Emmy Award-winning collaborator Sylvia Caminer, and his longtime Emmy Award-winning casting director Judy Henderson, C. S. A. (Showtime’s Homeland). “We are thrilled to have a director,” says Shing Ka, “with such experience, judgement and resources as John on our first production, and are especially enthused about his revered expertise in directing performance.”
Gallagher calls the script “a tremendously moving examination of a serious subject, yet still told in an entertaining fashion, with dozens of wonderful roles for actors.” Production will began in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains after the completion of Gallagher’s next feature, the comedy/drama All Mobbed Up.
Paul Mammano is a business owner turned screenwriter, with 15 years in multi-media and post-production, including Muze Inc., a music catalogue company, and his own post company Seraphic Studio. Shing Ka has a background in business and real estate, and is a well known actor, with appearances in Jonathan Demme’s The Manchurian Candidate, Andrew Lau’s The Revenge of the Green Dragon (executive produced by Martin Scorsese), and John Gallagher’s The Networker. He will next be seen in Gallagher’s All Mobbed Up.
Gallagher is the acclaimed award-winning writer-director of The Deli, Blue Moon, Street Hunter, Men Lie and Cupidity, a writer-producer on the new comedy Sam (executive produced by Mel Brooks), a producer on Gabriele Altobelli’s new feature romance American Fango, and executive producer on Kelsey O’Brien’s award-winning love story Enchantments. John is also a popular NYC acting teacher and author of Film Directors on Directing.
For further information please contact at Shing Ka at shing@peopleartistic.com or Paul Mammano at paul@peopleartistic.com
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