Mad Bad by Jon Keeyes: Best Film from NYIIFVF LA edition

The New York International Independent Film & Video Festival (NYIIFVF) on its return to Los Angeles, September 14 – 21, 2006 has awarded MAD BAD directed by Jon Keeyes the Best Film Prize.

CREW

Director Production Designer
Jon Keeyes Reuben Freed

Writer(s) Art Director
Jason Kabolati & Chip Joslin Eric Whitney

Producer(s) Set Decorator
Jason Kabolati & Sabine Stener Amy Herfurth

Cinematographer Costume Designer
Jason Todd Hampton Rebecca Stacey

Editor(s) Line Producer
Scott Hanson & Bonnie Smith Tiffany Kieran

Co-Producer(s) Executive Producer(s)
Joey Stewart & Mark Hodge Andrew Hillin & Brant Ringler

Casting Original Music
Melinda Lawson David Rosenblad

1st Assistant Director Production Coordinator
Mark Mahlo Shelly Shivers

Associate Producer(s) Co-Executive Producer
Abe Haddad & Mike Pisterzi Charles Acosta

Script Supervisor Sound Mixer
Nicole Garcea Brad Harper, C.A.S.

Chief Lighting Technician Best Boy Electric
Ronert B. Reynolds Daniel A. McGarvey, Jr.

Key Make Up Location Manager
Adrienne Sisco Hoverson Mark Hodge

Production Accountant(s) Assistant to the Producer
Stephanie Ferguson Noreen Perez

CAST
Denton Blane Everett Justin DeMeer
Vincent Riverside Gino Maretti
Landon Dunning Haydon DeMeer
Terry Gamble Ethan Rivers
Anna Zielinski Katherine Jones
Richard Folmer Uncle Patrick
Russell Fuentes Manny
Maurice Ripki Roland
M. Andre Seebaran Andre
Alligator Dave Gator
Hayden Tweedie Young Hayden
Tyler Corie Young Justin
Thomas Klooster Young Ethan
Eddie Head Eddie
Betheny Zolt Betheny
Michael Marco John
Shane Evans Shane
Neil Schnell Neil
Gabriel Folse Father
Marc Jeffreys Harold Lipinski
Ray Crockett Himself
Chivas Warren Crocket’s Girl
Barry Ragsdale Cop
Rick Shew Spider the Valet
Gustavo Valentin Sergio
Joel S. Greco Label Exec 1
Abe Haddad Label Exec 2
Tony Kabolati Prison Guard
Slim Jim Announcer at Hard Rock
Rebecca Stacey Café Attendent
Tommy D Hard Rock Doorman
Jimmy Cooney Bartender 1
Steve Krieger Bartender 2
Chip Joslin Inmate 1
Mark Wilson Gino’s stand in

SYNOPSIS
Following a ten-year sentence for the murder of his father, Justin DeMeer has been released from prison. Entering a world he has never known as an adult, Justin tries to rebuild his life and repair the damaged relationship with his younger sister, Hayden, an up-and-coming rock star. No sooner is he out than he learns his sister’s recording career is in jeopardy as she struggles financially to continue on… Believing fate has ordained him to protect her, Justin makes a decision that will affect the lives of everyone he cares about. After a failed attempt at legitimate work, Justin turns to the one thing he has become quite familiar with in the prison mechanic shop… how to steal cars. Justin quickly puts together a scheme… working with a valet, who gives him inside information on expensive sports cars, Justin retrieves cars for a greedy chop shop owner, Manny, who’s brother taught him the skills while in prison. As fate would have it, he inadvertently jacks a car that belongs to a notorious drug dealer, a narcissistic Rock-a-Billy gangster who has a penchant for fine clothing and torturing his victims. When Manny discovers the drugs hidden in the car, he secretly sells it off to some unsuspecting mid-level drug dealers, a pair of Rastafarian wannabes, who see the stash as a windfall… the decision will cost them dearly as the Gangster, Gino Maretti, navigates his way back through everyone who unfortunately touched his drugs, and makes them suffer the ultimate price. It isn’t long before Gino traces his stash back to Manny, who leads them not to Justin, but to his sister… Hayden. When it seems that Justin will find vindication for his past and repair his relationship with Hayden, Gino’s bloody vendetta comes home. To enact a satisfying revenge, Gino forces Justin to confront him in a game that could leave everyone Justin cares about, dead.