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The Limits of Escape

A collaboration between choreographer/dancer Chriselle Tidrick and filmmaker/director Roy Szuper, “The Limits of Escape” was shot during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. The film centers on themes of confinement, fear, grief, and escape (which is never as simple as it seems). With powerful music by composer/violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain, the film ends with expressions of hope and a sense of the possibility that comes from moving through pain.

  • Roy Szuper
    Director
    Concert Joe: A New York Story; Charcoal; Gonzo Music Diaries, NYC; Revolution in Motion
  • Chriselle Tidrick
    Key Cast
    "Dancer"
    Enchanted; Eastern Winds
  • Chriselle Tidrick
    Choreographer
    Eastern Winds
  • Daniel Bernard Roumain
    Composer/Violinist
  • Chriselle Tidrick
    Producer
  • Roy Szuper
    Producer
    Edge Codes
  • Project Type:
    Short, Other
  • Genres:
    Dance Film
  • Runtime:
    8 minutes 55 seconds
  • Production Budget:
    950 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    No Dialogue
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Roy Szuper

A native New Yorker, Roy Szuper initially started working in live music production where he found the topic for his first documentary. “Concert Joe: A New York Story” (IMDB). A fusion of comedy and music inspired by “This is Spinal Tap,” the film follows one man’s ridiculous quest to get into the Guinness Book of World Records for seeing the most concerts. The film was featured on MTV and VH-1.

Szuper’s next short film was a more personal story titled “Charcoal”(IMDB) that was based on an event that happened to his family in the days after 9/11. It screened in Cannes and Buenos Aires in 2007.

Szuper’s first feature, “Gonzo Music Diaries, NYC” (IMDB) started as a documentary about subway musicians and morphed into the story of the staging of a music festival 9 days before the start of the Republican National Convention. The film follows the music and activism leading up to the RNC and documents New York’s transforming music, cultural and political landscapes. Featuring Tom Morello, Michael Franti, Vernon Reid, and CGGB’s founder Hilly Kristal. Gonzo was screened at Anthology Film Archive’s New Filmmakers Series, CBGB’S, Vision Du Reel DocFest in Switzerland, IDFA in Amsterdam, Cannes and Buenos Aires.

Szuper has also worked as a producer on a feature length documentary titled ”Edge Codes,” a film about the history of film editing featuring George Lucas and Thelma Schoonmaker, Martin Scorceces’ editor. Szuper’s documentary short “Revolution in Motion,” about a car that runs on air, was profiled in the Daily News in 2009.

Szuper produced factual content for a short period where he was able to secure a first look deal with My Tupelo Entertainment and development deals with Earth Touch USA, and JV Productions.

Szuper has since refocused on writing. “ Madhouse,” a farce about an opera company, had a staged reading in 2016 and is currently being developed as a feature length film.

Szuper’s first novel, “The Nine Lives of Sebastian Roy,” loosely based on his life as a single father in New York, will be published in 2021.

He is in pre-production on his first feature length, narrative film titled “Can’t Let It Go,” a political comedy about five interconnected relationships and how they were affected during the 2016 election.

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