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Curtain Call

CURTAIN CALL follows Emmett Tanner’s plummet from the top of the country music charts to the bowels of state prison after a series of unfortunate events at a concert after-party leave one person dead and Tanner facing a murder charge.
Filmed and set entirely in South Carolina, the film follows Tanner’s journey from the backwoods to center stage, before heading off to the courthouse and penitentiary, where the darkest chapters of Tanner’s life play out.
The feature-length drama stars Merritt Vann (Lt. Joe Kenda: Homicide Hunter, Banshee, Revolution, Sleepy Hollow) as Emmett Tanner. Jennifer Wyatt (Snapped: Killer Couples, Devious Maids), Pat Yeary (A Mother’s Plea, Army Wives, The Signal), and Reno Gooch (ABC’s of Death 2.5, Banshee) also star.
Nashville recording artists The Blue Pickups provided original songs and much of the score. Band members Kelly Wyatt, Mike Danielsen, Donny Rogers and Jimmy Rogers also lend their acting talents as Emmett’s on-screen band-mates, with Wyatt, as attorney Steve Bridges, also leading Tanner’s legal defense team.
CURTAIN CALL grew out of a conversation between Executive Producer Merritt Vann and co-star Reno Gooch on the set of the Showtime hit “Banshee.” After completing an initial screenplay for a short film, Vann began working with writer/director Daljit Kalsi on plans for a feature film in late 2014, after collaborating with Kalsi on two previous films (Lord’s Work and SINtenced).
Thanks to partnerships with South Carolina Law Enforcement Agencies, Kalsi and co-producers Vann and Kelly Wyatt, took the cast and crew behind bars in working and former jail sites for much of the production, adding to the film’s authenticity and realism.

  • Daljit Kalsi
    Director
  • Daljit Kalsi
    Writer
  • Merritt Vann
    Writer
  • Daljit Kalsi
    Producer
  • Merritt Vann
    Producer
  • Kelly Wyatt
    Producer
  • Merritt Vann
    Key Cast
  • Jennifer Wyatt
    Key Cast
  • Kelly Wyatt
    Key Cast
  • Reno Gooch
    Key Cast
  • Pat Yeary
    Key Cast
  • Dan Fowler
    Key Cast
  • Christian Thain
    Key Cast
  • John Oliver
    Key Cast
  • Lauren Paige Wilson
    Key Cast
  • Bill Brucker
    Key Cast
  • Emily Kelly
    Key Cast
  • Eliza Schneider
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 27 minutes 11 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    August 27, 2016
  • Production Budget:
    8,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Greenville, SC Premiere
    Greenville, SC
    United States
    September 6, 2016
    World Premiere
Director Biography - Daljit Kalsi

Writer/ Director Daljit Kalsi is a Greenville, South Carolina native who works in the television news industry and hobbies as a filmmaker.
Kalsi, who as a student filmmaker, completed the first student-produced feature-length film, “Fatal Glitch,” at the University of South Carolina Upstate in 2007.
He has followed up with a number of short films and festival entries, including “Lord’s Work,” an adaptation of Kwame Dawes’ novella “My Lord,” for the 2014 Expecting Goodness Film Festival in Spartanburg, SC.
Kalsi’s collaboration with CURTAIN CALL co-producers Merritt Vann and Kelly Wyatt on the set of “Lord’s Work,” in which both Wyatt and Vann starred.
Vann approached Kalsi with the prospect of further developing an existing script into a feature-length drama in late 2014. Wyatt soon joined the team and production of CURTAIN CALL began in April 2016.

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Director Statement

Please consider CURTAIN CALL for your film festival. It's a court-room drama, prison drama, revenge picture, and family tragedy all rolled into one package.