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T I L TRunning time ......................... 100 min

Genre ..................................... Phychological Thriller / Drama

Year ........................................ 2017

Language ............................... English

Country of Origin .................. United States

Format ................................... 1920x1080, 24fps, 2.40:1, Sound 5.1

Public Relations .................... DDA - Dana Archer and Nastasya Morauw

Sales / Distribution .............. CAA - Tristen Tuckfield and Nick Ogiony

Representation ..................... Jason Burns : UTA

Peter Dodd : UTA

Matt Rosen : Grandview

Links ...................................... Director IMDB: www.imdb.me/kasrafarahani

SYNOPSISAll seems normal with Joseph and Joanne.  Joanne is pregnant with their first child.  Life in their little

urban house is cozy and familiar. But something is off about Joseph.  He doesn’t seem excited about the

baby.  Work on his documentary is becoming increasingly untethered.  As Joseph struggles to maintain

the routines of his domestic life, his mask begins to slip.  Late at night, while Joanne thinks he is working,

Joseph prowls the streets of Los Angeles, deliberately courting danger.  Joanne is growing worried about

Joseph’s odd behavior.  But not as worried as she should be.

Tilt explores how quickly the most familiar person in your life can become the most terrifying.  How quickly

we can become terrifying to ourselves.

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

Certainly, making a movie about a frustrated filmmaker living in Silverlake will invite some comparisons.

The seed for TILT came from my co-writer Jason O’Leary. He became struck by the mental image of a

man in a dark room standing silently over his sleeping wife. After a few chats, this man became Joe Burns.

The character became a vehicle to explore some personally familiar ideas about the fear of commitment,

ambivalence about having children, and exceptionalism. In TILT, the plan was to use these common

contemporary urban struggles to explore how a few bad turns could set a vulnerable person onto a very dark

path from which he could not return.

I was not interested in making a tawdry film. For me, TILT is a deep character exploration of a modern

narcissist. Take your run of the mill (third wave) coffee shop intellectual, loosen a few screws, add a heap

of humiliation and voila, you have Joe Burns. He has convinced himself that his vision is iconoclastic; that

his art is a “cultural disruption.” Joe would rather destroy everything than fade away into the sunset of an

enviable if ordinary life, having compromised all the lofty ambitions to which he has felt entitled his entire

privileged, middle-class life. Just as TAXI DRIVER’S Travis Bickle struggled to re-enter society after fighting

in Vietnam, Joe Burns in TILT struggles with alienation from a modern society that seems to be blind to

his genius and happily whirring along without him. Joe fancies himself a brilliant crusader of liberal views,

but for all his liberal grandstanding and artsy affectation, Joe might secretly prefer to live in the 1950s, the

“mythic golden age of American life” that he is making a rambling documentary about. More and more, he

exhibits glimpses of the white male rage and entitlement that have become disturbingly vocal in the past

year of American political life. Being an Iranian-born American, as half the country seeks to “make America

great again” via the exclusion of “others,” I cannot help being affected by these voices.

Ultimately, in TILT, I wanted to explore how tenuous our senses of safety and control really are. How quickly

the most familiar person in your life can become the most terrifying. How quickly we can become terrifying

to ourselves.

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KASRA FARAHANIWriter, Director, Producer

A life long lover of images and story,

Kasra Farahani was born in Iran, and

raised in Los Angeles, California after

his family fled the Islamic revolution

of 1979. Always a visual artist and a

builder of things, Kasra studied industrial

design before landing in the film world.

After nearly a decade as a well regarded

concept artist and art director in the art

departments of master filmmakers such

as JJ Abrams, Steven Spielberg, Michael

Mann, Tim Burton, James Cameron,

and David Fincher, and inspired by the

mastery of these filmmakers, Kasra

hopes to tell stories that combine the

power and scope of visual worlds with

the substantive drama that comes from

the conflict of well realized characters.

JOSEPH CROSSJoseph Burns

Joseph Cross is an American-born film

and theater actor who has appeared in

over a dozen films including: Stephen

Spielberg’s LINCOLN; Gus Van Sant’s

MILK; Clint Eastwood’s FLAGS OF OUR

FATHERS; Arnaud Desplechin’s JIMMY

P.; and Ryan Murphy’s RUNNING WITH

SCISSORS, which won him the 2006

Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Motion

Picture, Comedy or Musical. His theater

credits include “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”

at the Theatre Royal Haymarket; Eugene

O’Neil’s “Mourning Becomes Electra”

at the New Group; and John Guare’s

“Landscape of the Body” directed by

Michael Grief at the Williamstown

Theater Festival. He can currently be see

in HBO’s, “Big Little Lies”, and upcoming

in David Fincher’s “Mindhunter” for

Netflix.

ALEXIA RASMUSSENJoanne Burns

Alexia Rasmussen grew up in Los Angeles. After high school she moved to New York to attend NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. During her time there she studied at the Experimental Theater Wing, the Classical Studio and the International Theater Wing in Amsterdam. Since graduating in 2006, she has been very proud to appear in such films as THE COMEDY, PROXY and most recently LITTLE ACCIDENTS, LAST WEEKEND and CREATIVE CONTROL. After 13 years of living in New York, she recently relocated to Los Angeles with her husband and dog.

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JASON O’LEARYWriter

Jason O’Leary received a B.F.A. in Drama

from the Tisch School of the Arts at New

York University. He is the author of four

novels: A Single Bound, Goners, The

Litter Kincaid, and Zero. He co-wrote

(with Kasra Farahani) the screenplay

of the film TILT, which will premiere at

the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival. He also

co-wrote (with Farahani) the screenplays

Garden and The Peculiar Aptitude of

Owen Barnaby. He lives in Portland,

Oregon with his wife Tracey.

GIRI THARANProducer

Giri Tharan founded Ball and Chain

Productions in 2013 shortly after

graduating from NYU’s Tisch School

of Arts. With a focus on developing,

financing and producing independent

content for Television and Film, he went

on to finance and produce THE GOOD

NEIGHBOR (originally THE WAITING),

also directed by Kasra Farahani and

starring James Caan. The film premiered

at SXSW in 2016 and was released later

that year. More recently, in addition to

teaming up again with Kasra to produce

TILT, he also financed and produced

PERMISSION starring Rebecca Hall and

Dan Stevens, which will be premiering

along with TILT at the 2017 Tribeca Film

Festival.

KRISTINA KONDRATHProducer

Being a Southern California native, Kristina Marie Kondrath cultivated a strong interest in the entertainment industry from an early age. Although Kristina went on to graduate from the University of Southern California with a BS in Business Administration, she did not give up on her passion and also minored in Cinema-Television. While attending USC, Kristina worked at Trojan Vision (the university television station) and also was involved in their Production Group.

After graduation, Kristina began her industry training by working regular background on the television series “Scrubs” as well as “CSI:NY.” Knowing the acting scene wasn’t quite for her, she started gaining production experience as a production assistant. It was only natural she would team up with her brother Jon at ReKon Productions and start producing and coordinating a variety of projects, varying from commercials, shorts, web series, music videos, and most recently feature films. She has worked on projects for Doritos, Nokia, EA Games, Ariana Grande, Epson, Will.I.Am, CoverGirl and Comcast among others. Kristina was happy to team up with director Kasra Farahani and producer Giri Tharan for a second time to produce TILT.

TILT

CREDITS

C R E W

Director .................................................................Kasra Farahani

Producers ..............................................................Giri Tharan, Kasra Farahani, Kristina Kondrath

Executive Producer ...............................................Farhad Amid

Associate Producer ..............................................Billy Levin

Writers ...................................................................Jason O’Leary & Kasra Farahani

Director Of Photography ......................................Alexander Alexandrov

Editor .....................................................................Kyle Traynor

Original Music .......................................................Lucas James Putnam

Production Designer .............................................Margaret Box

Costume Designer ................................................Skye Stewart-Short

Key Make-Up Artist ..............................................Doniella Davy

Prop Masters ........................................................Carina Berlin

Assistant Camera .................................................Adam Gould

Assistant Editor ....................................................Casey Curtiss

Colourist................................................................ Ian Vertovec

C A S T

Joseph Burns ...............Joseph Cross

Joanne Burns ...............Alexia Rasmussen

Kendra ..........................Jessy Hodges

Andy .............................Kelvin Yu

Doug Park ....................C.S. Lee

Allison ..........................Jade Sealey

Chusuke Hasegawa .....Brian Leng

Tourist ..........................Ron Marasco

Man on Cellphone ........Junes Zahdi

Woodworker .................Billy Khoury

Porsche Driver .............Kyle Kormaldi

Porsche Passenger......Rya Meyers

Cheryl ...........................Shelley Mitchell

Baby .............................Brielle Trani

Charlie ..........................Charlie