Who do you love? How will you die? CRY tells the story a bullied teenager struggling to survive his high school torments and a lonely elderly man wrestling with the loss of his wife and his own mortality. When a tragic accident entangles their lives, their budding friendship presents both with a glimmer of hope. They discover how to escape their self-imposed fortresses of solitude.
CRY began, quite literally, as a dream. Several dreams, really. The first dream was that of a 6th grade boy using his father's abandoned 8mm camera to make movies, splicing together footage of his friends with Godzilla and Rodan reels, cut with razor blades and glued together with scotch tape. The second dream was of a 8th grade boy spending almost every day of that summer in a darkened theater watching Star Wars and daring to think I want to make movies. The third dream was that of an old man, weeping at his kitchen table.
Why was he crying?
He was crying because he had to.
He was crying for those young boys who had forgotten their dreams.
CRY evolved organically from there, expanding outward from that powerful image of a lonely man weeping at his table in the dark. To make it real, I took a picture of an actor friend sitting at a table with an empty can of beer, an exact replica of the image in the dream, and used the image to inspire me to write. I listened to Zoë Keating and wrote from the inside to the out. I wrote, day after day. Then one day, I had a finished script.
And I still ignored the dream.
Finally, another dream came. A particularly famous actor, in the guise of his most famous character (a starship captain) said to me You have permission to try, even if you fail.
I woke from that dream free of the fear and doubt that had been paralyzing me. Within two years and with the valuable help of many of people, we had edited that draft down to a shooting script and we filmed CRY.
The journey didn't stop there, though. Exhaustion, frustration, and doubt crept back in even after the film was in the can. Even after we showed the film at festivals and won praise and awards, I still doubted the film. Something was not right. Something was still out of place.
Thoughts kept churning around in my head, but I untangle what was troubling me. I had tried, regardless of the risk, to make my first feature film. Why did I feel incomplete?
Months and years passed. Then, as it happens, I am sitting in a darkened theater again, watching the original Star Wars trilogy again, this time with my nephew who is the same age I was when I first saw the the first Star Wars. And Yoda said the words I had forgotten: Do or do not; there is no try.
That was it.
I took the film completely apart and started over. I looked at every shot, every sound, and every cue again. I cut scenes out. I moved shots around. I replaced old ideas with new ones. I rebuilt the film to be the very best I knew how to make it. I made a film I was finally, truly, happy with.
I finally made that dream. This is that film.
clay
We all face transitions. Some small. Some monumental. This story explores the effect of support and understanding when faced with extreme circumstances.
Bill Flynn
Comanche Moon, Full Metal Alchemist, Samurai 7
Bill has over twenty-six years’ experience as an actor. He performed with theater groups in Stavanger, Norway; Celle, Germany; Vienna, Virginia; and Dallas, Texas. For the past seventeen years he has worked in TV, film and commercials, and periodically returns to the boards in local showcases.
CRY to me was an introduction to adult life, much like it was to my character. I found responsibility and life-long friends, and it took me down a very challenging road that I'm still traveling.
Skyy Moore
Last Rampage, Two Step
Skyy Moore is best know for his roles in crime thrillers Last Rampage and Two Step. He began his career on the stage in Dallas, Texas. He’s been a working as an indie film actor for several years in Texas and is now based out of L.A. He’s represented by Progressive Artists Agency and Luber Roklin Entertainment.
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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Faking It, Shameless
Raised in Dallas, Texas, Erick began his acting career his senior year of high school.
He eventually found his way to Los Angeles, CA, appearing in in Faking It, Switched At Birth, Shameless, NCIS, Castle, and the Robert Rodriguez directed pilot episode of Matador. Has also done professional theatre at the Kirk Douglas in Culver City, originating the role of Frankie in Kimber Lee's "Different Words For The Same Thing".
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Boyhood, Friday Night Lights, Two Step
Libby Villari was born a Tarhill and a hick in Winston-Salem, N.C. and credits the beauty and magic of rural North Carolina for her love of, and reverence for Nature. Her roots still inform who she is today. At age 11 she moved to Sunland-Tujunga on the outskirts of Los Angeles. She embraced Southern California as her new home, graduated from Verdugo Hills High School, married, gave birth to her son, and embraced all things alternative and natural, including political activism.
I'd like to say that "CRY" is a very good movie and I am very proud to be a part of the production. I thought it was well written and well acted with a great cast and director.
Grover Coulson
The Lone Ranger, Friday Night Lights, Better Call Saul
Born in Hubbard Texas November 2,1947, to parents, Grover and Odessa Coulson, He graduated from Dunbar High School, Ft. Worth Texas, 1966. The next year Grover enrolled at Tarrant County Jr. college to study theater. After one semester, he went into the Army for two years and upon discharge returned to college to continue his studies in acting.
Cry allowed me to explore loss and love. As hard as it is to get back in the game, after missed opportunities, one must pick themselves up and finish the game. Cry explores how people decide to finish the game. Winner or loser...the end result is how we play it.
Andrea Cohen
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No County for Old Men, JFK, The Magnificent Seven
Matthew Posey began his film and television career in 1983 where he played Eugene in the movie "Places in the Heart". He has been acting for over 35 years and has been in over 50 major film and television productions. Matthew's career highlights include, "True Stories", "JFK", "Lonesome Dove", "No Country For Old Men", "Rectify", "American Crime", and "Temple Grandin" to name a few. Recently, Matthew can be seen in Antoine Fuqua's blockbuster film "Magnificant Seven", and in AMC's "The Son".
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