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A homeless man is befriended by a mysterious little girl who seems to be able to appear and disappear at will.
Cinereach REACH Film Fellowship 2011
Feeling set adrift in her own marriage, Anna corners her estranged husband Milo for a conversation about the nature of love and commitment, but ends up getting far more truth than she bargained for.
AFI/DWW 2010
When recovering alcoholic Jane’s childhood habit of sleepwalking suddenly reappears, the line between her waking and dreaming lives becomes blurred. As the divide between the two realities expands, her relationships, as well as her sanity begin to suffer.
For musical artist David Clement. Starring Mary Louise Burke. Featuring Dan Safer, Sean Donovan and Sam Pinkleton. Choreography by Dan Safer. Cinematography by Chase Bowman.
EXQUISITE CORPSE (experimental)
A collaboration between multiple NYC-based video artists to create a video version of the surrealist drawing game where each participant draws part of a person without seeing what the others have drawn.
Inspired by Claude Chabrol's 1968 ode to queer culture, "Les Biches" (Bad Girls), the project is an examination, imitation and infiltration of an early filmic foray into hot girl on girl action. With Kourtney Rutherford and Alison Folland.
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WATERLINE
Cal Jacobs is a brilliant young pharmaceutical researcher whose life is turned on its head when she miraculously survives a near drowning. Driven to understand the physiological process that kept her alive for almost 20 minutes under water, she becomes obsessed with questioning and pushing her body's ability to go without oxygen.
Writer: Kaz Phillips Safer
Director: Warren Fischer
> CURRENTLY IN PRE-PRODUCTION AT BUNKER NYC (under option)
{ Behold, The Kickos! }
BEHOLD, THE KICKOS!
When Anastasia Kicko’s estranged mother and sister show up at her Brooklyn apartment insisting she join them for a lavish tropical vacation, she knows something is up. Won over by her mother’s insistence that all she wants is a chance to make up for her past mistakes, Ani agrees to go along. But as she digs deeper into the truth of what’s going on, she discovers that the depth of her mother’s capacity to exploit and betray goes beyond what even she imagined.
Writer/ Director: Kaz Phillips Safer
Producer: Jennifer Glynn
> CURRENTLY IN DEVELOPMENT
IT GETS BETTER FOR EVERYONE (mocku-PSA)
Two men move to a small town with trepidation about the reaction of the locals, only to find that their neighbors are not your average yokels.
For Brooklyn-based rock band CLINICAL TRIALS. Starring Somer Bingham and Vanessa Koppel. Shot, directed and edited by Kaz Phillips Safer. Choreography by Dan Safer.
MY BEST FRIEND’S PARTY
When Lana Byrne discovers the art dealer who could kick start her career is going to be at her best friend Charlie’s gallery opening after party, she knows this could be the night that changes everything. But as the party careens on, her friends, colleagues and the decadent world they worship begin to show their true colors, and Lana must finally question what she’s truly willing to sacrifice for the notoriety she craves.
Director: Kaz Phillips Safer
Writer/ Producer: Jesse Knight
Producer: Doug Matejka
> CURRENTLY IN DEVELOPMENT
