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College's Chapman Filmed Entertainment Indie Company 

Makes the First Cut with The Barber 

The Barber, which is the first movie made by Chapman Filmed Entertainment, the university film

school's independent production company, is well on its way to appearing on a screen near you. (I

almost wrote big screen near you, but with so many platforms for premieres these days who knows

which screen size anymore?)

But it can be reported with confidence that The Barber is rolling on some big screens. The Little

Film Co., which has offices in London and Los Angeles, obtained worldwide rights to the picture

from Chapman Filmed Entertainment and then introduced the movie to potential buyers at the

recently concluded Toronto International Film Festival.

The Little Film Co.--named after owners Robbie and Ellen Little--previously executive produced andsold Gavin Hood's South Afrrican drama Tsotsi, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign

Language Film. The motion picture sales and marketing firm's current projects include: The Last

Station, which was directed by Michael Hoffman and stars Helen Mirren, James McAvoy and

Christopher Plummer; Davis Guggenheim's documentary It Might Get Loud with The Edge, Jimmy

Page and Jack White; and The Eye of the Storm, which was directed by Fred Schepisi and stars

Geoffrey Rush, Charlotte Rampling and Judy Davis.

The Barber is scheduled to next be shown at the prestigious Busan International Film Festival in

South Korea on Oct. 3. Some of that festival's best films are shown again at Busan West, which is

hosted by and rolls inside Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts in Orange.

Formerly known as Trigger, the character-driven thriller The Barber examines a father (played by

 veteran actor Scott Glenn) whose life is destroyed in pursuit of a monster, and a son (Chris Coy)

caught in a deadly charade as he tries to unravel his father's obsession. Stephen Tobolowsky, Olivia

Taylor Dudley and Kristen Hager co-star.

Shooting in Orange and Los Angeles wrapped last summer on the $1.2 million indie. Director Basel

Owies of the Chapman class of 2010 makes his feature-length directorial debut with The Barber. The

script is credited to longtime television writer Max Enscoe, but co-writers were Chris Frazier

(Chapman class of 2008) and Charlie Frazier.

Indeed, the entire production kept with Chapman Filmed Entertainment's mission of developing

indie projects that employ current film school students and alumni. These included: director of 

photography Allen Liu ('10); production designer Brendan O'Connor ('12); editor Nader Owies ('12);

production office coordinator Kiri Kraatz ('12); location manager Samer Imam ('12); location scout

Lauren Peirce ('12); office intern Taj Walia (a current Chapman student); production accountant

Elizabeth Hartnett ('12); first assistant camera Jason Wittenberg ('10); second assistant camera

Paulina Bryant ('11); set decorator Maya Levy ('12); lead man Evan Seccombe ('11); construction

coordinator Ntsikelelo McCall ('12); lead scenic Micah Embry ('11); art department assistant Kellen

Moore ('12); and graphic designer Nick Snyder ('12).

Whew!

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The producer is Travis Knox, a 1993 Chapman alum who was formerly senior vice president at

Storyline and the executive producer of The Bucket List. He's now head of development and

production at Dodge College, where he serves on the faculty and as an executive with Chapman

Filmed Entertainment, a sustainable, fully-functioning independent film production company

designed to produce three to four micro-budget pictures per year. Knox told the Chapman student

newspaper The Panther in August that of all the scripts he reviewed, The Barber's "was the one that

fit every bullet point we wanted, as far as price, marketability and commercial value."

"It is evident that movies in the horror/thriller genre continue to elicit the most demand among

movie-going audiences worldwide so we're happy to partner with The Little Film Company to help

meet the needs of distributors looking to build a pipeline of strong commercial offerings like The

Barber," explains Bob Bassett, the dean of Dodge College of Film and Media Arts and CEO of 

Chapman Filmed Entertainment.

The company is currently looking at scripts for its next project, according to Knox.

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