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Three-Fifty

May 21st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Narrative Shorts


Directed by Maurice Chauvet, 9min
When a man tries to weasel his way out of his late fees at his local video store, the clerk and the manager have some surprises for him. Their database has access to what seems like all of the truth in the universe - with video and photos of intimate details of the customer’s past - and his future. ’screechingly funny’ - ‘especially hilarious’.

Biography

Maurice Chauvet wrote Owning Mahowny (Sony Classics, 2003), for which he received a Genie Award nomination for best adapted screenplay. Other film work includes the upcoming Charity Case (Thousand Words), Mighty Mouse (Nickelodeon/Paramount) and The Bride Wore Black (20th Century Fox).Also a playwright, his 2004 play “A Safe Distance” was an L.A Stage Alliance Ovation Award nominee for best world premiere play.

Other produced plays include Ascension, “Three-Fifty”, “Sunday Morning”, “Suicide Sam”, “All Night Radio”, “Bobby Zero”, “The Chess Game” and “Wild Kingdom”. On stage, he directed
Jeanne Dorsey’s “The Longbottom Way” and his own “Three-Fifty”.

As a writer-director, he made the short video pieces, Dare and God is Dead and now “$3.50″ the film. Maurice is a founding member of the Venice, CA-based theater group Apartment A and is the company’s Co-Artistic Director.

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