Pie
Carol invites Annette over for homemade pie and after much prodding divulges her special secret and scandalous ingredient. It’s Thelma and Louise meets Sweeney Todd via Stepford, Connecticut.
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Adria TennorDirectorCracked
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Adria TennorWriterCracked
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Cindi KnaptonProducerHate Crime
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Adria TennorProducerCracked
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Jessica ParéKey CastMad Men, Lost & Delirious, Brooklyn
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Adria TennorKey CastThe Artist, Bad Moms, You Don't Mess with the Zohan
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John NielsenKey CastTransformers: Revenge of the Fallen, The Blacklist, Hereafter
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Chloe LanierKey CastKingdom, General Hospital, Army Wives
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Mindy ElliotEditorThe Decendants, Nebraska, Blade: Trinity
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Jon PhilionCinematographyHate Crime
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Finnian RileyCinematographyFour of Hearts
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J. Peter RobinsonComposerThe Bank Job, The World's Fastest Indian, Charmed
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Denise HudsonProduction DesignAmerican Horror Story (Emmy Nom.), Bruno, Unstoppable
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Rachel StolteHair & Make Up21, Wristcutters: A Love Story, The Roommate
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Itamar Ben JacobSoundVan Wilder: Party Liaison, Flypaper, To End All Wars
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Jamie CouparSoundSam's Box, A Meeting of the Minds, By Jingo
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Jill BogdanowiczEditorialThe Grand Budapest Hotel, The Changling, O brother, Where Art Thou?
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Geoffrey KaterVisual EffectsPiranha 3D
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Trinka TurkPrincipal WardrobeProven Innovators
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Project Type:Short
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Genres:Female Driven, Dark Comedy
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Runtime:10 minutes 44 seconds
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Completion Date:February 5, 2018
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Country of Origin:United States
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Country of Filming:United States
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:Digital 4K
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Cinequest Film & VR FestivalSan Jose, CA
United States
March 2, 2018
World Premiere
Best of the Festival Encore Screening -
Cleveland International Film FestivalCleveland, OH
United States
April 6, 2018
Ohio
Best After Hours Short -
Newport Beach Film FestivalNewport Beach, CA
United States
April 27, 2018 -
Montclair Film FestivalMontclair, NJ
United States
May 4, 2018
East Coast Premiere -
Southside Film FestivalBethlehem, PA
United States
June 14, 2018
Pennsylvania -
Mexico City Independent Film FestivalMexico City
Mexico
July 8, 2018
Mexico -
Woods Hole Film FestivalWoods Hole, MA
United States
July 30, 2018
New England
Audience Award Best Comedy Short -
Flickers' Rhode Island International Film FestivalProvidence, RI
United States
Rhode Island -
HollyShorts Film FestivalLos Angeles, CA
United States
Los Angeles -
FrightFest LondonLondon
United Kingdom
August 24, 2018
UK -
FuncinemaMar del Plata
Argentina
September 22, 2018
Argentina -
Best of Woods Hole Film FestivalFalmouth, MA
United States
October 7, 2018
Audience Award Best Comedy Short -
Flyway Film FestivalStockholm, WI
United States
October 20, 2018
Wisconsin -
VisionFestLos Angeles, CA
United States
October 21, 2018 -
Twin Cities Horror FestivalMinneapolis, MN
United States
October 26, 2018
Minneapolis -
Portland Film FestivalPortland, OR
United States
October 27, 2018
Portland -
Indie MemphisMemphis, TN
United States
November 2, 2018
Memphis -
Buried Alive Film FestivalAtlanta, GA
United States
November 18, 2018
Georgia -
MonsterFestCarlton, VIC
Australia
November 24, 2018
Australia -
New York City Film FestivalNew York, NY
United States
December 2, 2018
New York City
Adria Tennor earned her BFA in theatrical stage direction and acting at New York University and Playwrights Horizons Theater School before pursuing a career as an actor. Her first professional job out of college was playing a twelve-year old boy looking at porn in Tompkins Square park in Hal Hartley’s Amateur which premiered in the Directors Fortnight at Cannes. She works regularly in television and film and is most known for her recurring role on AMC’s Mad Men as well as in Michel Hazanavicius’ Academy Award winning film, The Artist. Dissatisfied by the quantity and quality of roles she was able to garner from auditioning, Tennor began writing stand up early in her career to give herself more opportunities to perform. She then spun her comedy into a rave-reviewed one-woman show, StripSearch, about finding love and happiness with the help of a 12 foot pole. Another monologue she wrote and performed, Pie in the Sky, was published in the anthology about lust gone wrong Worst Laid Plans: When Bad Sex Happens to Good People alongside works by Whitney Cummings, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Allison Brie and Laraine Newman. Tennor made her producing debut on John Schneider’s horror spoof, Smothered, shot on location in Baton Rouge. Her directorial debut, a self-penned short film drama, Cracked, starring Talyan Wright & Marguerite Moreau, garnered awards and laurels around the country including Best Direction of a Short Film at the Independent Filmmakers Showcase and Best Young Actor and Best Young Actress at the Woods Hole Film Festival on Cape Cod. Her feature script, Never Been Born, was a winner of the 2016 CineStory Fellowship and a finalist in several screenplay competitions including the Nantucket Film Festival Tony Cox Screenplay Contest. Judi Levine (The Sessions) is attached to Executive Produce the project, and Thomas Sadoski (I Smile Back) will Co-Produce and star. Tennor also owns and operates four restaurants in Los Angeles with her restaurateur husband and partner, Claudio Blotta: All’Acqua, an Italian spot in Atwater Village, Market Provisions in West Hollywood and barbrix in Silver Lake which was named Best Wine Bar in Los Angeles by LA Magazine and the freshly opened Côté Est, a French Bistro in Highland Park. Her ambition is to create more stories for and about women and to foster opportunities for a diverse point of view in theater, film and television.
I’ve become very conscious of the way women are portrayed in media. Maybe it’s the #MeToo movement, or maybe it’s just my own awareness, stirring, awakening, as I move through womanhood and life on the planet as female. Now, when I write, I feel responsible for the integrity of women, and not just the ones in my story, but the ones in stories yet to come. I want to make sure we do them justice and crack the mold, and not perpetuate a stale, inadequate convention of who we used to be, or who we never were.
With Pie, I wanted to rewrite the archetype in which betrayal pits women against each other. I looked for another resolution for that scenario, one that didn’t conserve the dynamic of women as enemies. I’m embarrassed to confess that in one early version of the script, I succumbed to the gravitational pull of the “male gaze” that seems ingrained in me, in our culture, and proposed ending the story with a lesbian encounter. Realizing this preserved an unrealistic male fantasy, I edited that cliché, and came up with something I like better. I hope you do, too.
– Adria Tennor