The "Challenge Of the Champions" celebrates
the life and careers of Bull riding's two greatest celebrities:
famed PRCA World Champion bull rider Lane Frost and Red
Rock, the sport's more fearsome bull who went unridden 309
times. The DVD includes candid and intimate interviews with some
of the people closest to the sports two best known competitors:
Lane's parents
Clyde & Elsie Frost, riding partners and
friends Tuff Hedeman and
Cody Lambert, sportscaster George Michael, stock contractor and
owner of Red Rock, John Growney, journalist & photographers Sue
Rosoff & Kendra Santos, actor Luke Perry & others.
After the Screening,
there will be a Q&A with David Wittkower, the Producer/Director,
John Growney, owner of Red Rock, Sue Rosoff, PRCA Photographer
who traveled with Frost, Kendra Santos, writer and close friend
and a Special Guest
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT
time and location on schedule soon
Attending the screening will be
Steve Mason, Jack Robinson, Reed
Marshall, Peggy Painton and
others with the film...this will be a great
LITTLE DEVIL
Steve Mason as Lee Atwater
LITTLE DEVIL marks
the film debut of longtime Los Angeles radio and television personality
Steve Mason. Well known to sports fans as co-host of “The Mason &
Ireland Show” now heard on 710 ESPN Radio, he is also the pregame host
for both the World Champion Los Angeles Lakers and USC Football
broadcasts.
The live action short tells the story of the remarkable and
controversial political life of Republican operative Lee Atwater. In the
span of just 20 minutes, Steve Mason as writer, director and actor
captures the essence of what made Lee who he was. After a childhood
marred by tragedy, he became the most vicious and ruthlessly competitive
campaigner in history. LITTLE DEVIL attempts to find some truth about
the man who promised to make the Democratic party sing the blues, and
then succeeded at engineering the Presidential election of George
Herbert Walker Bush in 1988. Lee was an amateur blues guitarist with
friends like BB King, but ironically, he repeatedly used race in
political campaigns to divide the electorate, which proved to be a
winning strategy.
Atwater was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor in 1991 and famously
apologized to the many candidates that he had smeared (including Bush’s
1988 opponent Democrat Michael Dukakis) and published a deeply personal
letter in Life magazine before his death, but to this day, some question
his so-called “death bed conversion.”
In addition to Steve Mason’s lead performance as Lee Atwater, LITTLE
DEVIL also stars John Robinson, Kaitlyn Black, Jamie Nicole Loken, John
Moreaux and Reed Marshall. The director of photography is Jon Edwards
with sound design by Kelly Cabral.
ABOUT THE WRITER, DIRECTOR STAR
Steve Mason is an accomplished and versatile broadcaster with extensive
experience on both television and radio. He is a frequent contributor to
ESPN, E! Entertainment Television, Fox News Channel, TV Guide Channel
and Reelz Channel among others, offering his expertise on sports and the
entertainment industry. He has interviewed hundreds of celebrities over
the years including Tom Hanks, Kobe Bryant, Jamie Foxx, Catherine Zeta
Jones, Tiger Woods, Morgan Freeman, Phil Jackson and Condaleeza Rice, to
name just a few, and has been front and center on the red carpet and at
major events reporting from Hollywood and New York and everywhere in
between. He annually hosts ABC Radio Network’s Academy Awards coverage,
and he has also worked as a broadcaster at each of the last 6 Olympic
games. Currently, he is the co-host of "The Mason and Ireland Show" on
710 ESPN Radio in Los Angeles and also hosts pregame for both the World
Champion Los Angeles Lakers and USC Football.
In addition to being in front of the camera and behind the microphone,
Steve is equally adept in the business world. He is the President and
CEO of Flagship Theatres, which owns Cinemas Palme d'Or Theatres in Palm
Desert, California and The University Village 3 Theatres in Los Angeles.
He has parlayed his insider knowledge and contacts with studio
executives to become one of the industry’s leading movie box office
analysts, and he is regularly quoted and sourced by news organizations
like Bloomberg, Breitbart, the Associated Press and USA Today.
Boyhood Shadows
journeys with
Glenn, past and present,
revealing a
story that began as a young boy under
the power
of a sexual predator. The narrative chronicles
Glenn’s struggle as he tries to make sense
of his
life, telling no one. Numbing his pain as
a teen with
alcohol and drugs, he held the secret and
the shame.
His brothers and sister, his mother and
father – who
recognized something was wrong with this
once-
goldenboy– were at a loss to understand
the cause of
his devastation.
Glenn, after suffering for decades, living
on the streets,
addicted to alcohol and drugs and sex –
finally came up
for air. He describes his past…funny,
poignant and sad.
Glenn’s story is interspersed with those
of twenty other
boys-turned-men. Their stories are all
different…but
unfortunately, all the same.
One in six boys is sexually
molested by the age of 16.
Glenn claims he is alive today because he
finally spoke
out about his abuse,
“There is no shame in being a
victim!”
His strength is an inspiration. He has
been there.
Today he
directs a sober living facility in Los Angeles.
Glenn Kulik, the main character in
the documentary, will be attending from LA
Laura
Dare
will perform from
the
BOYHOOD SHADOWS
SOUNDTRACK
Driven by the
Sound A film by
Kenny and Jake Ballentine
In this Documentary Meet Nico
Calabria, a 13 year-old boy who faces special challenges as he
climbs mount Kilimanjaro, the worlds highest freestanding mountain.
His goal, to raise money and deliver free wheelchairs to the people
of Tanzania. This coming of age adventure has some unexpected twists
that push
this child to his limits just
before reaching the summit at nineteen thousand feet above sea
level..
WEST COAST PREMIER
GIRL'S NIGHT OUT
In Zack Ford’s
feature-length directorial debut GIRLS’ NIGHT OUT, Phoebe, 17, a
damaged high school girl with a dark secret, seduces her friend
Kathy’s 12-year-old brother during an all-girl sleep-over. When
the boy’s alcoholic mother returns unexpectedly and has a
nervous breakdown, the moral constructs of the night are
jeopardized. The film is adapted from an award-winning stage
play Zack wrote while at NYU (BFA ’05). He lives in Manhattan.
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