SILVER AWARD --"One of the Best Low-Budget/Experimental Features of the Year," HOUSTON INTL. FILM FESTIVAL, 1996.
Slamdance Film Festival/Honorable Mention.
A collaborative feature written/directed by Rick Schmidt, Kyle Bergersen, Trudie Dearinger, Barry Norman, Eric Magun, Anthony Pesce, Michelle Kulstad. Featuring Cheyenne Wilbur, Mary Jane Knecht.
Real-life stories by Kyle Bergersen, Donn Tretheway, Eric Magun, Trudie Dearinger, Mary Jane Knecht, Cheyenne Wilbur.
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BLUES FOR THE AVATAR is a comedy about two oddball characters, a man Cheyenne, and a woman, Mary Jane, caught in the circumstances of being unwanted guests in other people's lives. His propensity for women has landed him in the middle of a horrendous breakup, while her quest for self-discovery leads her into what might be direct contact with an avatar (“...a spiritual being sent to earth to teach us enlightenment”). Their friends appear throughout the film, offering real-life stories of irony, outrageousness, and late 20th century angst.
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BLUES FOR THE AVATAR (73 min., B&W ©1995, Feature Workshops, included in 'Main Feature Competition' Figueira da Foz Intl. Film Festival, Portugal.