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Play Along

LOG LINE:
A woman makes her unlikely hostages sing a song, but in order to survive they have to learn to Play Along.

SYNOPSIS:
A neighborhood home.  A crazy housewife.  A family of puppets.  And a hostage situation.  In order to survive, her unlikely subjects learn to play along with her diabolical games.  They sing a song, pee in a bucket and ultimately try to mount a daring escape.  Will they survive, or is someone else pulling the strings?

  • Brian Hogan
    Director
  • Connor Rog
    Director
  • Abigaile Sands
    Writer
  • Matt Valade
    Writer
  • Tyler Stirling
    Writer
  • Brian Hogan
    Producer
  • Connor Rog
    Producer
  • Tyler Stirling
    Producer
  • Abigaile Sands
    Producer
  • Todd Barnes
    Producer
    Sex Guaranteed, Sick Sex, Locksmith
  • Amanda Shy
    Key Cast
    "Crazy Lady"
  • Project Type:
    Short, Student
  • Genres:
    Horror, Comedy, puppet
  • Runtime:
    13 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    September 25, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    4,000 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
Director Biography - Brian Hogan, Connor Rog

Brian’s Biography - Co-Director, Play Along

Brian Hogan is a Connecticut born gay filmmaker who always knew he wanted to be in show business. From the age of eight he was telling friends and family what he was going to do when he became rich and famous, and how he planned to change the world.

Brian worked as a missionary after graduating high school in 1997. He was stationed on a non-governmental hospital ship for three and a half years that traveled regularly between West Africa, South Africa and Western Europe. During his time overseas he visited over thirty countries, giving him a broad picture of the world as it truly is, not simply the way the American mainstream media would have us believe.

In 2002 Brian’s travels landed him at Oberlin College at age 23, where he pursued his love for film and TV, co-creating a multi-media production called Real World: Oberlin and directing numerous plays and short film projects. After college he moved to West Hollywood where he spent a few years writing screenplays at a Starbucks before switching gears and opening a Medical Marijuana Dispensery in 2010.

Seven years later in 2017 Brian returned to his natal ground of CT to attend a graduate film program at Sacred Heart University. During grad school Brian wrote and/or directed six short films, including Play Along, created a web series and completed a feature screenplay that he began ten years earlier in a Los Angeles coffeehouse. That screenplay, Super Hoax, was selected as 1 of 20 Finalists out of 700 screenplay submissions in 2019.

Brian lives with his sister and her family in Stratford CT, and now manages the film school from which he just graduated as Valedictorian and Lamda Phi Eta Communications Honor’s Society Inductee. Brian is proud to be an alumni of Sacred Heart University's Film & Television Production Master's Program (FTMA).

To find out more about Brian’s films, upcoming events and projects please visit his website at TheBrianHogan.com Thank you.

Connor’s Biography - Co-Director, Play Along

Connor Rog is a human begin living on planet earth, he is 25 years old. His efforts and his creativity are, at the moment, being used to make films and music. He makes his art in Bridgeport CT. All that is, is now.

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Director Statement

Play Along is a Hail Mary pass. Along with three other Alumni, we were two episodes into shooting a six episode thesis project when our lead actor dropped out. We were faced with every student filmmaker’s worst nightmare. How do we complete our project in time for a grade? Indeed, how do we complete it at all? With no lead actor and no idea what to do next, things looked bleak.

We already had a shoot weekend, a location, and a full cast and crew in place (minus the one diva); the only thing we didn’t have anymore was a story. So we called an emergency midnight writer’s room. Influenced by films like Scream and TV clips like Adult Swim’s Too Many Cooks, a phoenix rose up from the ashes of our failed web series, and a brand new puppet-horror-comedy was born. Same cast; same crew; same characters, same shoot dates; but a very very very different kind of story. We hope you enjoy it.

Best Regards,
Brian Hogan & Connor Rog
Play Along