Join us at the legendary Victoria Theatre for the official world premiere of Dillon Petrillo's film "The Advice of Strangers."
Purchase your tickets now at:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/whatif/the-advice-of-strangers-world-premiere
Each reward is for one individual. For multiple rewards, multiply your pledge within the reward category. There will be an RSVP list for Kickstarter purchases at the door.
Please plan on arriving at the theatre no later than 7:30, as we will be showing a series of shorts and a slideshow you won't want to miss. Refreshments will be available at the concession stand.
If you pledge $10 or more to the kickstarter fund, you will also receive entry to the exclusive VIP party in a secret warehouse one block from the theatre (details will be sent out day of show.)
The Victoria Theatre seats 480, so invite your friends to this unprecedented night you will not soon forget!
***About the film***
Based on Franz Kafka's Description of a Struggle, the film is divided into three chapters. The first chapter follows Fran, a bored twenty-something, and George, a starry-eyed lover, on a drunken search for a girl after a New Years Eve party. In the second chapter, Fran meets a hopeful drifter, Rio, who tells her the story of The Supplicant and how he inspired Rio to migrate. The third chapter returns to Fran and George's drunken quest. Shot on location in Cheyenne, WY, Laramie, WY, and San Francisco, CA, The Advice of Strangers is a biting and ethereal look at hope, frustration, wanderlust, assumptions, and love.
Trailer:
http://player.vimeo.com/video/30920538?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0
Starring: Mary Higgins, Ian Michael Rowe, Mark Daniel Mieden, Alex Greenburg
Directed by: Dillon Petrillo
Written by: Dillon Petrillo, based on "Description of a Struggle" by Franz Kafka.
Screenplay by: Dillon Petrillo
Produced by: Ian Michael Rowe, Gissele Sandoval
Funded by: Grant awarded by the Wyoming Film Office after Dillon Petrillo won 1st place in Wyoming Short Film Festival.
Awards: Closing film at Cheyenne International Film Festival 2011
Website:
http://www.theadviceofstrangersmovie.com
***About the Theatre***
Built in 1908 as a vaudeville house, the Mission District's Victoria Theatre is the oldest operating theatre in San Francisco. Originally called Brown's Opera House, the theatre showcased grand performances by international stars who came to San Francisco.
In the 1930s, as cinema began to overtake live theatre, Brown's became a motion picture house, and in the 1950s, changed it's name to El Teatro Victoria and began playing only Spanish-language films.
In the 1960s, however, the theatre became a burlesque house and changed it's name, once again, to New Follies. The theatre subsequently closed in 1976. Three years later, the theatre reopened, restored to it's original grandeur and eager to show only the greatest of films inside its stately red exterior.
Website:
www.victoriatheatre.org
