Cicada: I Was a Teenage Horror Movie!
In 1997, awkward pre-teens with a VHS camera struggle to make an ambitious vampire movie, each playing multiple roles, spilling dimestore blood in a slew of murder scenes, and testing testicular limits with a homemade zip-line setpiece. Now edited as a comedy, it is at once a bloody twist on vampire lore and an endearing portrait of young filmmakers coming of "rage."
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Keil Orion TroisiDirector
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Gabe DiDomenicoWriter
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Aaron TroisiKey Cast
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Gabe DiDomenicoKey Cast
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William DiDomenicoKey Cast
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Keil Orion TroisiKey Cast
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Project Type:Documentary, Experimental, Short
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Genres:Comedy, Horror
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Runtime:13 minutes 22 seconds
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Completion Date:April 30, 2022
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Country of Origin:United States
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:VHS
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Aspect Ratio:4:3
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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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Keil Orion Troisi has been a filmmaker since childhood. He directed the comedic documentary short "Total Disaster" (2022), award-winning corporate-horror movie "Human Resources" (2015, feature) and "Mono Generation" (2017, short), and produced and co-wrote "Peace Pipeline" (2021) which won Best Doc Short at Dallas VideoFest, North Dakota Human Rights, Wolf Creek, Skoden, and Jim Thorpe film fests. Since 2012, he has been a core member of mischief-activism collective The Yes Men. He has worked for over a decade as a screenplay ghostwriter, editor, and story analyst, and won a NYFA Fellowship in Screenwriting-Playwriting.