Jason Sandford
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This movie, Road to Nowhere, is worth seeing. I sure hope someone brings it to Asheville. First, the press release from AdvantageWest:
“Road to Nowhere,” the independent motion picture filmed last year in Western North Carolina, will premiere at the prestigious Venice Film Festival in Italy, which is scheduled September 1-11. The film is one of 19 selected to represent the United States, along with others by such notable directors as Martin Scorsese, Sofia Coppola, Ben Affleck and the late Dennis Hopper.
“Road to Nowhere” was directed by Monte Hellman, and written and produced by Steven Gaydos. It stars Dominique Swain (“JAG,” “Ghost Whisperer”), Shannyn Sossamon (“How to Make it in America,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”), Tygh Runyan (“Battlestar Galactica,” “SGU Stargate Universe”), and Cliff De Young (“The Young and the Restless,” “Grey’s Anatomy”).
“Road to Nowhere” is described as a romance-thriller about a young filmmaker who gets wrapped up in a crime while shooting his latest project on location. The real filmmakers spent two months last year shooting in several areas of North Carolina, including Jackson, Graham, Buncombe, Haywood, and Swain Counties, the cities of Waynesville, Asheville and Bryson City, and at Fontana Lake.
The New York Times describes the filmmaker, Hellman, as “the elder statesman of the idiosyncratic, independent and overlooked American filmmakers that the French treasure.” And here’s what the newspaper says about Road to Nowhere:
“Road to Nowhere,” the latest from the 77-year-old Mr. Hellman, isn’t “MASH,” but it is enigmatic, elliptical, defiant of formula and possesses his almost perverse aversion to commerciality. Written by Mr. Gaydos and starring Shannyn Sossamon (“How to Make It in America”), Cliff de Young, Dominique Swain and Tygh Runyan, “Road” may also be as significant to the indie feature as “Avatar” is to the popcorn movie: the entire film was shot on what is essentially a still camera (the Canon 5D Mark II), while looking like a mega-million Hollywood production. (“Road” cost “under five million,” Mr. Gaydos said.)
Sounds amazing.
