ABOUT THE CIRCUS
In the last film he made during the silent era, Charlie Chaplin revels in the art of the circus. Wrongfully accused of criminal acts, the Little Tramp unwittingly ducks into a big top, where his bumbling attempts to avoid pursuing police officers earn the laughter and applause of the circus-goers. Impressed, the ringmaster decides to employ the tramp as an entertainer. In between getting trapped in a lion’s cage and partaking in clumsy high wire escapades, he falls for a beautiful show performer, who unfortunately has eyes for a daring tightrope acrobat.
ABOUT MARK ANDERSEN
Mark Andersen is an internationally known theatre and classical organist. He has been the organist for the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops under Arthur Fiedler, head staff music arranger for NBC in New York, Artist in Residence for both Hammond Castle in Massachusetts and Daniels Recital Hall in Seattle, Washington. He designs pipe organ control systems for Artisan Instruments in Seattle and records for International Artists Foundation both on CD, DVD, and live Television via the weekly TV program “Crescendo!” heard nationally on Time Warner and Comcast Cable. Mark has over 35 recordings on CD published to date and has twice won the International Composer’s Competition in Amsterdam, Holland. He has been a featured artist at three American Theatre Organ Society Conventions and enjoys the Big Band style of music from the 20s, 30s,and 40s. In the past Mark has taken lessons from both Jesse Crawford and George Wright. He now teaches both classical organ and theatre organ from his studio where he has 2 four Manual Organs, one theatre and one classical. Mark’s favorite composers are George Gershwin and Irving Berlin and he loves to take his audiences down memory lane.
ABOUT THE APPLECALYPSE AND MINH NGÔ
The Applecalypse is a modern-day silent epic, with never-before-seen twists on the genre. The film tells the story of Eve biting into the Forbidden Fruit in the Garden of Eden, and the resulting cataclysmic event known as the Applecalypse in which all humans and apples are sucked into a dark void! It’s up to Gala and McIntosh, the only surviving apples, to recruit the help of Steve Jobs and Sir Isaac Newton and save the Garden of Eden. The film was produced as a Second-Year Thesis film at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and is a collaboration between all 5 university art schools at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as featuring students and alumni from UNC Greensboro.
Hailing from Vietnam, Hawaii, and England, Minh Ngô is currently a student filmmaker at UNCSA, and owes infinite gratitude to the school and the Triad community for giving him the opportunity to realize his filmmaking dreams. He wishes to pioneer his own genre, which he dubs the Neo-Mythical and features the absurd, high energy, epic, and complex intertwining of narratives from our world’s historical, literary and cultural canon. Ngô makes an active effort to ensure that his works will be unlike anything the audience have ever seen before, on both a conceptual and emotional level. Ngô doesn’t believe in shooting for the Moon because that’s too close. He hopes that everyone will feel the magic of this unique moviegoing experience!
