BLUE PAPER FILM WORKS
Film Projects
In the Shadow
A healer hides on a small Caribbean island, coping with the curse that comes with his gift.
Exhausted from the demands of his abilities as a healer, Diego lives in isolation on a small island in his native Puerto Rico. However, his quiet life is disrupted when Hilary, a documentary filmmaker, arrives to continue her project on migration and identity. Intrigued by Diego's mystery and the local gossip about him, she tries to get closer to him. He allows her into his life, but as the two become attracted to each other, Hilary discovers Diego’s “gift” also comes with a curse, an uncontrollably violent one that brings painful consequences and changes to both of their lives.
Starring Jorge Sermini, Michelle Keffer, with a supporting role by Danny Trejo.
Directed by Nicole Elmer. Cinematography by Michael Morlan. Original Score by Arles Estes.
Distributed by DEVOLVER DIGITAL
What's the Use¿
A girl. A gun. And too many weirdos.
Seventeen year-old Sara defends her pride (and clean dishwashing station), from a career oriented greasy-spoon waitress and her potty mouth. In the gymnastics of her self defense, she recalls the surreal night only a few years ago when she had come home to live with her father, Tony, a skinny loser of a man fresh out of rehab. Determined to start their lives over, he throws her a birthday, only to have it wrecked by Shy, a dangerous loan shark out to collect his debt. The threat? Tony owes him repayment by noon the next day...or else.
Pissed by her father's passive retreat into his bedroom, Sara sets off to find Shy and take care of her father's debt on her own terms. On her journey through the heat of the 4th of July in Austin, Texas, she meets a love-starved perfectionist, a professional Love Guru, and an eccentric who is planning a painless suicide. Finally reaching Shy, he pushes her fragile ego to the very edge, where she is forced to finally see her family's dark secret and realize she might be her own greatest enemy.