Altered Ego
Entertainment Film
Pre-Productions
Projects in Progress
Altered Ego Entertainment
has four feature
projects in development,
Big Ropes,
Made in China, M & N, and Between a Man and
Woman.
as well
as two shorts,
The Depth of Swimming Pools
and In
the Ecstasy of The Void.
Penned by
Frederic Colier, all these dramas are planned to be shot over the next
three years.
Announced, in Pre-Production:
In The Ecstasy of the Void.
Bobo has been in
love with Katherine but has never dared to approach her. A handyman, he lacks
the confidence. She is a wealthy Upper Eastsider. Until one day, she drifts in his local dive bar . . .(Short)
Oct 07
M & N,
a finalist at the
Sundance's Writers' Lab for Jan 07, has won the Digital Filmmaker Award at the
IFP Market 07.
M & N
follows a guilt-ridden
old woman, Marguerite,
who after years of alienation with her daughter, Cristelle, desperately tries to
reconnect with her. Problems arise when Cristelle refuses to allow her mother
in her life. Instead, Marguerite finds herself under the care of a
middle-aged Arab woman. Marguerite never recovered from her son's death during
the Algeria in
1962. The co-habitation and the quest for her daughter only mark the
beginning of a painful journey towards awareness and acceptance.
2008
In Development:
Made in China
depicts the struggle of
two brothers, Roy and Mike, in a small town of Michigan. The brothers live
together in relative harmony until the day Roy loses his job, following the
closing of the factory which relocates to China. Roy has been living at the mercy of
Mike's cruelty, mainly since Mike has been responsible for Roy's diving accident that has left him
confined to a wheelchair. Now Roy toys with the idea to move to Maine,
alone. 2008
Big Ropes
narrates the story
of a couple on the verge of breakdown following the disappearance of their daughter.
Suspected of sexually abusing his daughter, Stan falls prey to his wife, Amanda, and her thirst for truth during a deceptive boat outing. With nothing to lose,
Stan fights back to prove his innocence, even at the cost of sinking everything.
2009
Between a Man and Woman
follows Duchess, a
heart-broken woman in her mid-fifties who realizes as she takes care of her
stroked mother that her life has never materialized. Filled with anger,
regrets, and an unabating thirst to catch up with lost time, she strikes a
friendship with a stockbroker, whose wife is dying of a heart-attack, in the
waiting room of an hospital.
Fall 2009