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PRESS RELEASE
Altered Ego Entertainment presents Bounce (4’58’’) a film written and directed by Frederic Colier, with Jane Deeken, Mike Williams, Alyssa Klein and Victoria Adami. (Completed Jan 06)
Film Festivals
Tribeca Underground Film Festival, TUFF, Feb 06
Genre Psychological Drama.
Tag Line Often life is just a bounce away
Log Line Lonely in her large Upper Westside apartment, Wilma watches resigned the world go by. Until the day a ball rolls into her living room . . .
Talents
Alyssa Klein (Jasmine) is seven and live in New Jersey. Bounce is her first film. Victoria Adami (Vickie) is five and lives on Long Island. Bounce is her first film. Vladimir Subotic (DP) was born in Belgrade / Yugoslavia, where he grew up and graduated from School of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering. Shortly after his graduation he lefts his native Yugoslavia and moved to Cyprus. There he became an assistant Director of Photography/cameraman for internationally acclaimed Michalis Georgiades. His passion for narrative filmmaking led him to more experimental Cinematography and his collaboration with German Director Filmmaker Alexia Roider, Lifechaser. Success of “Lifechaser” led Vladimir to collaborate with other filmmakers and slowly move majority of his work to fiction and narrative storytelling. Since Vladimir has won many awards for his cinematographic works. Best cinematography awards in Spain Festival Cine de Elche and Los Angeles International Film Festival 2004 among 1200 entries for Bedford directed by Spaniard Andeas Sanz. In addition Vladimir has shot nine features and short films. The most recent feature film being LOVE, directed by Vladan Nikolic which screened as official selection of Tribeca and Venice Int. Film Festival 2005. Vladimir’s camera work on LOVE was reviewed in American Cinematographer Magazine, Sept 05.
Synopsis Wilma is a lonely woman. She lives alone in her huge apartment and has little contact with the world. She spends her days sitting in her living room staring out the window and the pictures of her deceased dog. When a dog barks outside she comes to life and quickly realizes how desertic her life is. She plays the piano to kill the time. But even that is a reminder of her loneliness. She spots her next-door neighbors outside her window, hugging their little girl. While gardening she hears again the dog barking outside. She decides to venture out. In the hallway, she comes across two young girls playing with a ball. They look happy but are afraid of Wilma. Dismayed at their reaction she walks back to her place. Jason, her corporate son, visits her. The communication is awkward, stilted. Jason rambles about his new clients. Losing patience, Wilma latches out. She wants to know how come he is still not married and has no children. Jason fails to close the door properly as he leaves and the door swings back open. On the landing above, the little girls’ ball rolls down the stairs and bounces off the wall into Wilma apartment . . . Crew List
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Frederic Colier (Writer-Director) is a graduate of the Digital Film Academy, NY.
Bounce (2006) is his newest short. His previous projects include, Of
Wanderlust (2004), Desert Weeds (2005), both screened nationally and
internationally and on the festival circuit (Clermont-Ferrand, France; Izmir,
Turkey; WorldFest Houston, Fire Island, NY). In the Ecstasy of the Void
will begin production in March 06. Frederic has written and directed a music
video, Once Again, for the album of the Kenyan soul/funk artist Shu
Nyatta. He will make his directorial feature debut next summer with
Between a Man and Woman, a psychological drama based on his script. Over the
years, Frederic has produced no less than a dozen short films, and written and
directed fourteen plays, notably Barbed Wire Hearts, Heartbreak
Tango; two novels, Barabane! Barabane!; Traîte
d’Union (in French). He is the author of Playground for Talking
Heads (Luminous Press, March 2005) and the forthcoming novel, In the
Valleys of Green and Gray, as well as the short story collection, A
Memoir of Absence. 
Jane Deeken (Wilma) has relied upon
her wide-ranging talents to bring life to a diverse range of roles for film,
broadcast and the stage. She stars as Elizabeth Van Lew in the upcoming
History Channel production of Civil War Terrorists airing this spring and
played a principal role in the 2005 short film Stephanie 30. Jane
performed as Ms. E in The Letter People and Matilda in
The Marketplace, both for broadcast and has played Tzeitel in
Fiddler on the Roof, Daisy in Great Western Melodrama and
Amanda in Uncle Buck. She studied acting with Robert Elkins (HB
Studios) and Toni Cobb, continues to train her lyric soprano voice and possesses
a BA in Theater from Southern Illinois University. Jane is a retired Captain in
the Civil Reserve Air Force having served one tour of duty in the first Gulf
War. 
Mike Williams (Jason) is a graduate of
the Actors Studio, MFA program at the New School in NYC. Before moving to the
screen, he appeared in Off Broadway and Regional Theater productions. Over the
last two years, he has appeared as supporting and leading roles in three other
independent film projects, Running Deep (feature film), To Love,
Push Button for, Of Wanderlust, and Desert Weeds. Bounce
is his fourth project with Frederic Colier. 
Mevlut Akkaya (Executive Producer) learned
his craft by working with critically acclaimed European directors from 1988 to
1994. He taught acting at The Duisburg International Center in Germany from 1990
to 1992. He wrote, produced, and directed Manwolf in 1992 at the
Tribeca Lab Theater in Manhattan and has worked (as actor and director) with
various theaters in NY including The Vineyard and La Mama ETC.
Mevlut is a graduate of Anatolian University (Turkey), Dortmund University
(Germany), and Brooklyn College (for Motion Picture Production). Since 1996
Mevlut has focused on cinema and has worked in various capacities for several
independent films as well as commercials. His films have been screened in such
respected film festivals as AFI Film Festival, Sedona
Film Festival, Kino International Film Festival, Oceanside Film Festival, and L.A. International Film Festival. He is the current
producer and co-producer of several independent feature film and commercial
projects, including Following Bliss, Cola Turka
(Starring Chevy Chase), Death
by Committee, Over-Heard and Toss Up (Distributed by Warner
Bros.) Mevlut is the founder and director of the
Digital Film Academy, Digital Film Center, NY Turkish Film Festival and
Artistic Director of the NY Brazilian Film Festival.
He is also founder and president of Maya Entertainment
Inc.