HURT
MELORA WALTERS: HELEN COLTRANE
WILLIAM MAPOTHER: DARRYL COLTRANE
JOHANNA BRADDY: LENORE COLTRANE
SOFIA VASSILIEVA: SARAH PARSONS
JACKSON RATHBONE: CONRAD COLTRANE
AVA GAUDET: ELISE MONTOYA
PRODUCERS: EDUARDO LEVY AND JAMES MARTIN
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: PAUL MARTIN AND DAVID MARTIN
LINE PRODUCER: EDUARDO LEVY
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: RALPH KAECHELE
PRODUCTION DESIGN: SCOTT ENGE
COSTUME DESIGN: MICHELLE LYNETTE BUSH
EDITOR: RITA Da SILVA
MUSIC BY: DANA NIU
SCORE PRODUCED BY: DAVID JULYAN
ART DIRECTOR: BRADFORD JOHNSON
SCREENPLAY BY: BARBARA STEPANSKY, ALISON LEA BINGEMAN
STORY BY: EDUARDO LEVY AND JAMES MARTIN
DIRECTED BY: BARBARA STEPANSKY
RUNTIME: 97 Minutes
MPAA Rating: Rated R for some violence and brief language.
COPYRIGHT© MMVIII High Treason Productions
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REVIEWS
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“Hurt is a brilliant study in modern psychological terror. An unsettling, creepy, and downright
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“A Tense, Sinister, Gothic thriller that slowly brings you to the edge of your seat and doesn't let
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"A well-crafted thriller, fraught with simmering tension."
– Stephen Susco, screenwriter of "The Grudge"
“Hurt is a great and scary horror thriller. Hurt builds an emotional ride that escalates steadily
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“Hurt is a refreshingly old-school slow burn of a film, with solid performances across the board.
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SYNOPSIS
There are terrible things happening in the desert…
unexplainable, frightening things. Tragic, inexplicable
incidents… ever since she arrived.
The Coltrane family’s life has been devastated by an
untimely death. Widowed, Helen Coltrane (Melora
Walters – “Big Love”), along with her teenage son
(Jackson Rathbone – Twilight) and daughter, are
given shelter by her reclusive and quirky gun-loving
brother-in-law. As they grapple with the reality of
their shattered, altered life and twist of fate,
coincidence steps in with a seemingly lovely foster
child (Sofia Vassilieva - TV’s “Medium”) who appears
touting a story that Helen’s husband had pledged to
take her in. And as they do, a macabre story of
deception unfolds …
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MELORA WALTERS –
HELEN COLTRANE
Melora Walters is perhaps best known today for her role on HBO’s
Emmy and Golden Globe nominated series “Big Love”, playing
Wanda Henrickson, the eccentric sister-in-law of Boll Henrickson
(Bill Paxton).
Film audiences, however, have taken note of her considerable
talent in a number of critically acclaimed films of director Paul
Thomas Anderson, notably her haunting performance as the
drug-addicted yet sympathetic Claudia in Magnolia, who had also
cast her in his Academy Award® nominated film Boogie Nights
opposite Don Cheadle and earlier, in Hard Eight with Samuel L.
Jackson.
Walters can also be seen in such high profile, varied films as
Matchstick men, Cold Mountain, Ed Wood and Dead Poets
Society. Other credits include The Butterfly Effect, Eraser, Twenty
Bucks and Wise Girls.
Born in Saudi Arabia, Walters spent part of her childhood in
Holland before moving to New York. As a young adult she was
active in sports and dance, both of which helped shape her desire
to perform. After studying abroad, she returned to America to
pursue her career as an artist at the Pratt Institute in New York.
With the encouragement of her art professors, Walters began to
write plays and experiment with acting. With persistence and
determination, she soon found her way to the legendary Actor’s
Studio and she began performing in various off-broadway
productions, including “Scream and Dances of the Bronx Bear”
and “Burt Lancaster” at the Manhattan Class Company.
Walters has also made many other appearances on the small
screen. Her television credits include “push Nevada,” “L.A.
Doctors,” “Roseanne,” NYPD Blue,” “Picket Fences,” “Seinfeld”
and Showtime’s “Dead Man’s Revenge.”
Walter’s is also an accomplished artist, writer and painter.
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WILLIAM MAPOTHER –
DARRYL COLTRANE
William Mapother can next be seen in the independent film
Warrior. Other recent work includes the FOX series “Prison
Break” and his recurring role on ABC’s “Lost.”
For his performance in the critically acclaimed and Oscarnominated film In the Bedroom, William shared in a SAG
Award nomination for “Outstanding Performance by a Cast in
a Theatrical Motion Picture.” His other feature film credits
include The Burrowers, World Trade Center, The Grudge,
Lords of Dogtown, Without Limits, Swordfish, and Mission:
Impossible 2. William has worked with such notable directors
as Steven Spielberg, Oliver Stone, Stephen Frears, Todd
Field, Paul Thomas Anderson, Cameron Crowe, and Robert
Towne.
His television work includes the recurring role of Ethan in
“Lost,” the 2007 pilots “K-ville” and “Skip Tracer,” and
episodes of, among others, “Prison Break,” “CSI,” “CSI:
Miami,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Threshold,” “NCIS,” and
“Crossing Jordan.”
He narrated the award-winning documentary “Mountaintop
Removal,” and he is a member of SAG’s National Board of
Directors. Prior to acting, he taught junior high and high
school for three years in East Los Angeles for the Los Angeles
Unified School District. He grew up in Louisville, KY and
graduated with a BA in Literature from the University of Notre
Dame. He lives in Los Angeles.
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JOHANNA BRADDY –
LENORE COLTRANE
Johanna’s humble beginnings began in her native Georgia, where
she began taking ballet at the tender age of 4. That experience led
her to The Atlanta Workshop Players where she toured the state
singing and dancing through the 10th grade, garnering entry into
the prestigious Governors Honors Program. Her love of acting on
stage turned her attention to the camera, and she started booking
projects locally before making the move to LA at the age of 17.
Once in Hollywood, she immediately made her mark booking roles
on “Cold Case” for CBS, “The Riches” for FX Networks, and
playing the younger version of Christina Applegate on “Samantha
Who?” for ABC among others. In 2008, she took over the reigns as
the star of the 3rd installment of The Grudge series for Sony.
She can currently be seen playing the role of “Jordan” on ABC
Family’s smash hit dramedy “Greek”. Her upcoming film credits
include the Fame remake for Director Kevin Tancharoen and
MGM, and the Sony/Screen Gems release Easy A for Director Will
Gluck. Other recent television credits include the pilots “A
Marrage” for CBS, and “Lie To Me” and “The Oaks,” both for
Fox.
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SOFIA VASSILIEVA –
SARAH PARSONS
Perhaps best know to audiences for her series regular role of
Ariel Dubois on the Emmy Award winning, Golden Globe
nominated hit show “Medium,” gifted young actor Sofia
Vassilieva definitely displayed an early talent for taking on the
creative challenges that would set her on her course. Born to
Russian immigrant parents in Minneapolis, Minnesota,
Vassilieva began reading her ancestral language at age three,
the same year she began studying French and ballet. At 5, she
was practicing gymnastics and at 10, was riding horses and
studying sign language.
The precocious youngster, who was discovered at the
International Modeling and Talent Association (IMTA) in New
York in 2000 where she won the title of Child Actress and first
runner-up in Child Model of the Year. Shortly after, Vassilieva
was cast as Cindy Brady in “The Brady Bunch Goes to the White
House” (2002) opposite Shelley Long and Gary Cole, and went
on to play the children’s book heroine Eloise, in two made-fortelevision movies for ABC, “Eloise at the Plaza” and “Eloise at
Christmastime,” with Julie Andrews as Nanny, along with
Jeffrey Tambor and Christine Baranski.
Vassilieva won a Young Artist Award in 2006 for Best
Supporting Actress in a TV Drama for her role in “Medium,”
which also garnered her a nomination for a SyFy Portal Genre
Award as best young actor/actress in 2005.
Sofia recently completed filming Day Zero with Elijah Wood,
Chris Klein, Ginnifer Goodwin, Jon Bernthal, Ally Sheedy and
Elizabeth Moss.
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JACKSON RATHBONE –
CONRAD
COLTRANE
Young actor Jackson Rathbone (Twilight) had his heart set on a
future in classical theater and was heading for the Royal
Scottish Academy when he signed with Cutler Management
while giving L.A. and the film industry a try for the summer.
He soon landed a recurring role on “Disney 411” interviewing
Disney Channel stars, such as Hillary Duff and Raven Baxter.
When the fall came, Cutler persuaded Rathbone to stay in L.A.
and pursue a film career rather than attend The Royal Scottish
Academy. Taking her advise, he settled in for the long haul and
booked several commercials right off the bat as well as
substantial roles in TV including “Close to Home” an MOW for
Hallmark, “The OC,” and “The War at Home,” a pilot where he
played Sherry Stringer’s son. Rathbone was also cast in several
independent films, including a part in the feature Molding Clay,
and a role in Pray for Morning, an independent thriller from
writer/director Cartney Wearn. From there he landed a series
regular role in “Beautiful People” for ABC Family. Rathbone was
chosen by Girl’s Life Magazine as “The Hottie” and has also
been featured in Popstar and Ellegirl.
Born in Singapore, Rathbone was lucky to live in various places
around the world because of his father’s job. The family then
moved to Indonesia, and lived in London, Connecticut,
California, Norway, and finally settled in Texas, where Rathbone
joined The Pickwick Players, the youth actors program at the
local community theatre.
In addition to many extra-curricular activities, including
basketball, track, soccer, baseball and the official pastime of
Texas, football, Rathbone, a passionate musician, also started a
band and a mobile DJ business. However, he decided to focus
on what made him the happiest and enrolled in the prestigious
Interlochen Arts Academy as a high school theatre major where
he flourished in Shakespeare. He performed in the Southwest
Shakespeare Festival as Ferdinand in "The Tempest".
In his off-time, Rathbone writes music. He's performed at small
open-mic nights and recently booked a gig at The Gardenia in
Hollywood. Rathbone has recently formed a production
company with his manager where he hopes to find interesting
projects and eventually, one day, even direct.
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AVA GAUDET –
ELISE MONTOYA
Most recently seen on the runaway hit TV comedy "Ugly Betty,"
as well as a starring role opposite Ving Rhames in the upcoming
thriller Evil Angel, Ava Gaudet possesses that rare combination
of versatility on screen as well as considerable talents as a
singer and dancer who has proven her métier on Broadway.
Born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island, Gaudet has
performing hard-wired into her DNA: the daughter of a jazz
musician/composer, and an actress, she began dancing at age
three, and continued diligent and dedicated study of ballet, tap,
jazz, theater dance and hip-hop until adulthood. As a teenager,
she began acting in local theaters and was a lead actress in her
high school's musicals. Until this time, dance still dominated her
time training, but acting had sparked her interest enough to be
her major in college. She was accepted into the BFA acting
program at New York's Marymount Manhattan College.
After two successful years at Marymount, Ava became
passionate about a lifelong interest in songwriting and
recording. It wasn't long before Gaudet followed in her brother
and father's footsteps by enrolling full-time at the prestigious
Berklee College of Music in Boston. She was a voice principal,
building her vocal chops, and honing her songwriting and
performance skills. She wrote and released her first EP,
"Supergirl" and performed with her band throughout
Providence, Boston and New York garnering local notoriety and
regional attention.
Gaudet never gave up her love for acting and dancing
throughout this time, and stayed involved in theater and film
projects. She released her second EP of original music, and
supported herself by singing in upscale event bands.
She then landed the role of Maureen in the National Tour of
"Rent". Soon after the tour closed she made her Broadway
debut when she took over the same role in the Broadway
company of "Rent” and became the first actress in the show's
history to be a permanent principal actress and also understudy
the role of Mimi.
Gaudet is based in Los Angeles and continues to work in
theater, TV, and film. She is also collaborating with
songwriters/producers to compile new original material to suit
her eclectic musical tastes.
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BARBARA STEPANSKY –
DIRECTOR/CO-WRITER
Barbara was born in Poland, but her father's involvement in the
Solidarity movement led to the family relocating to Germany. After
receiving an undergraduate degree in philosophy of science from
University College London, Barbara decided to pursue her Master's at
the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television.
During her time at USC her short BLUEBERRY PANCAKES garnered the
Directors Guild of America Student Film Award in the women's
category and played at the Kodak Pavilion Emerging Filmmaker
Program in Cannes. In 2002 she was invited to participate in Film
Independent's Directors' lab. Most recently, Barbara completed a
second graduate degree in Directing at the American Film Institute,
where she won the Student Emmy for Best Director, for her thesis
film, THE TROJAN COW. The award is significant because this is the
first time it has been given out on a student level. The film also won
the Student Voices Jackson Hole Film Festival and the Grand Jury Prize
at the USA Film Festival National Film and Video Competition, making
it eligible for the Academy Awards®. Barbara is the recipient of several
scholarships, including the King Family Foundation Scholarship for
Excellence in Film and Video Production, the Mary Pickford Foundation
Scholarship for Excellence, the Bridges Larson Foundation Production
Award, the Patrick Peyton Award for Excellence, and the Franklin J.
Schaffner AFI Fellow Award.
ALISON LEA BINGEMAN –
CO-WRITER
Alison lea Bingeman is a screenwriter for both film and television. In
television she has over thirty hours of produced episodes in numerous
genres including science fiction, detective, fantasy, horror and
children's drama. Her credits include stories and episodes on such
series as "CSI: Miami", "The New Outer limits" and "NClS". Most
recently, she wrote and produced the primetime series for cable
television, "Whistler". She has also developed three series for
television including Stephen King's "lawnmower Man" for New Line
Cinema. In the feature world, she has worked with talented producers
and directors such as Gilles Carles and Steve Golin. A published
novelist, Alison co-wrote The Celestial Toymaker for WH Allen, London
and has published numerous articles for national magazines including
Written By. She holds an Honors Degree in French and English
literature from McGill University, a Graduate Diploma in Film Studies
from Concordia University in Montreal and a Certificat d'Études
Françaises from the Université de Franche-Comté in Besançon, France.
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EDUARDO LEVY –
PRODUCER/STORY CO-WRITER
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo began his career with Price
Waterhouse in 1990. His interest in finance and foreign markets led
him to join Banco Garantia - renamed Credit Suisse First Boston Latin America's premier investment bank. Over the next decade, he
specialized in emerging countries' fixed income markets. first as Senior
International Trader, and later as Director of Credit Trading & Portfolio
Management in South America. In Brazil, Eduardo ventured into
independent film distribution, which brought him to Los Angeles where
he earned his MFA in Film Producing from the American Film Institute.
While still at AFI, Eduardo collaborated with the Sundance Institute
and the Siamdance Film Festival in varied capacities, and two of the
short films he produced, Nocturn and Home, screened at film festivals
all over the world, including the Palm Springs International Film
Festival, The Santa Barbara Film Festival, and the Oxford Film Festival,
to name a few. In 2006 he created OLHAR INDEPENDENTE
('Independent look'), a talent search service aimed at educating South
American filmmakers and representing their work in Los Angeles.
JAMES MARTIN –
PRODUCER/STORY CO-WRITER
Born in Montreal. James has written five feature screenplays. While
studying Literature and Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He
produced several plays, including Stoppard's The Real Thing and
Voltaire's Candide for the Graduate Theatre. After earning an
Honors BA, he began writing speeches for senior staff at Astral
Television Networks. He then moved on to a marketing position at
TVA Film Distribution International where he developed the advertising
campaigns for their theatrical and video releases. Determined to make
his own films, James graduated with an MFA in Screenwriting from the
American Film Institute in 2005.
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RALPH KAECHELE –
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Ralph began his cinematography studies at FH Dortmund in 1996, the
University of Applied Sciences, and the Academy of Media Art in
Cologne, graduating in 2000. In 2002, he was awarded both major
German film scholarships, allowing him to continue his studies at the
American Film Institute in Los Angeles. Ralph has photographed and
worked on more than 60 productions, features, commercials, music
videos, documentaries, and shorts, including OLGA BENARIO, FRIDAY
NIGHT, SCHLEYER, A GERMAN STORY, and 1000 JOURNALS. He also
worked as 2nd unit DP on the acclaimed picture GOOD BYE. LENIN!,
which won six European Film Academy Awards, nine German Film
Academy Awards, as well a Golden Globes and BAFTA nominations.
Ralph's works were nominated for the German Max Ophuels Award.
the German Camera Award. Best Student Film at the Camerimage
Festival. and won best European Program Opener for CHANCELLOR
BUNGALOW and Best Student Thesis Feature at the International Film
Festival in Munich in 2001.
DANA NIU –
COMPOSER
Dana Niu has worked as a composer and orchestrator in over 70 films.
She grew up in Binghamton, NY, and began her music studies at age
four, playing piano and flute. Dana holds a degree in music
composition and film scoring from University of Southern California.
Her orchestration credits include LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD, THE
PRESTIGE, THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS, and the upcoming films THE
INTERNATIONAL and THE EYE. Her composing credits include music for
the TV series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and the recently released BIG
BAD WOLF.
DAVID JULYAN –
SCORE PRODUCER
David Julyan is one of the most sought after composers working today.
David often collaborates with director Christopher Nolan, scoring
Nolan's FOLLOWING, MEMENTO, INSOMNIA and THE PRESTIGE. Other
scores include RORY O'SHEA WAS HERE, THE DESCENT and OUTLAW,
among others.
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"But the child's sob curses deeper in the
silence than the strong man in his wrath..."
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
THE STORY
Amidst a swirling zephyr of dust and exhaust, a family emerges from a
weather-beaten truck to attempt to reconstruct their lives in the
middle of the desolate Arizona desert. The shattering loss of Robert,
the father, has left a gaping hole in the fabric of the family's life. But
before these grief-stricken individuals - Helen (Melora Walters), the
delicate, newly widowed mother, and Conrad (Jackson Rathbone) and
Lenore (Johanna E. Braddy), her teenage children - are able to heal,
several more threads in the fabric will loosen and cause their lives to
unravel in ways no one could foresee...
Although it would be possible to characterize HURT as a thriller, or to
consider placing it in the horror genre, at its heart, it is a family
drama, and one that is told principally from the vantage point of
considerable loss and personal tragedy. Yet as with many stories that
strike a universal chord, HURT transcends genre categorization, while
displaying certain elements that season the best of the thriller genus.
Unable to maintain their former lifestyle, the Coltrane family has been
forced back upon themselves and must turn to Uncle Darryl (William
Mapother), Robert's brother, for shelter and sustenance at his home
on a desert salvage yard. The arid landscape, with its ramshackle
house, decaying automobile carcasses and wolves skulking nearby
after nightfall, is scarcely the haven any of them would have sought
out. Yet they have no recourse, and each of them seeks to carve out a
corner of sanity.
Darryl, who has nursed an unrequited longing for Helen for decades, is
all too willing to help - even if it means accepting her children as part
of the pact. Yet it is with the arrival of the enigmatic, precocious Sarah
(Sofia Vassilieva), a foster child Robert had pledged to take in, that
the fissures in the family foundation are etched in starker relief.
From director Barbara Stepansky, co-writing with veteran screenwriter
Alison lea Bingeman, comes a feature debut presenting a tightly-knit
ensemble, all of whom are reeling from - and defined by - HURT. An
emotionally tense, character-driven tale that offers, by turns, varying
points-of-view on their common misfortune, HURT offers exceptional
performances from seasoned actors as well as talented newcomers.
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A WOMAN’S PERSPECTIVE
From the outset, the film's producers, Eduardo levy and James Martin,
who created the original story upon which the screenplay is based,
were committed to presenting a film that featured strong female
characters with their particular point-of-view. In fact, their newly
formed production company, High Treason Productions, had been
established with this commitment a key component of the company's
mandate. "One common thread in the different projects we are
developing is the inclusion of very evolved female characters,"
explains Levy, adding that there are surprisingly few such roles and
stories circulating in the film marketplace.
For this reason, although the initial drafts of the story would bear
much in common with the final one, both Martin and levy saw the
wisdom of soliciting authentic female perspectives by employing
women in key positions behind the camera. In addition to Stepansky,
the producers hired Nicki Orlandou as line producer, Kelly Wagner as
casting director, and Rita da Silva as film editor, each of whom
brought considerable talents to the production.
Of course, Stepansky's tremendous input in re-writing the script and
ultimately directing it was central to securing the female "take" on the
story, which in addition to the male characters, focuses to a large
extent on a recently widowed mother and her relationship to her
oppositional teenage daughter and an intelligent, though very
wounded, pre-adolescent girl. The nuanced representation of these
several stages of womanhood, and the dynamics of their interaction,
would seem all the more true-to-life with a woman at the helm.
"Based on the original story, ideas of the film's producers, we wanted
to create a simple family tragedy within the structure of a commercial
suspense thriller with a literal iceberg of back story", explains
Stepansky, "the challenge was to keep the balance of tension and
suspicion in the first half of the script equally strong between the
possible antagonists and to have that back story seep in subtly but
clearly."
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AWARDS/FILM FESTIVALS
Film Festivals
Official Selection 2009 ShockerFest International Film Festival
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