ANGRY BABY MONKEY PICTURES
PRESENTS
Total Running Time: 83 Mins.
Monty Python Award for Comedic Excellence, 2005 Grass Roots Cinema Festival
Best Micro Picture, 2005 Bare Bones Film Festival
Best Sci-Fi Short (“Sister of Cerebral Print”), 2004 Script to Screen Film Festival
Official Selection (“Ninja Vs. Cerebral Print”) 2005 Black Belt Martial Arts Film Festival
(“Cerebral Print: File #371”, “Cerebral Print: File #0604), Primate Memory Factory 5-Minute Film Festival
Production Contact: Angry Baby Monkey Pictures, 310.925.9860
Head of P.R. Contact: Kat MacKenzie, 858-205-3111
Publicity: ReginaSantos, 323-365-2125
STARRING
RICHARD GROVE ▲ FELISSA ROSE ▲ ETHAN PHILLIPS ▲ J.A. STEEL
JOHN PAYNE ▲ FORD AUSTIN ▲ VICKY JENSON ▲ JED ROWEN
MUSIC COMPOSED BY
FORD AUSTIN
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
JAMES S. ANDERSON III
THOMAS W. ANDERSON
CO-PRODUCER
JEFF CENTAURI
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
JOE MOORE
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
FORD AUSTIN
CINEMATOGRAPHY BY
TODD KIRSCHNER
FROM THE DEMENTED MIND OF
FORD AUSTIN
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL BY
JED ROWEN
SCOTT INGALLS
JOHN PAYNE
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PRODUCTION BY
ANGRY BABY MONKEY PICTURES
DISTRIBUTION PARTNERS:
IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT - DOMESTIC DVD
HOLLYWOOD WIZARD – INTERNATIONAL DVD
SYNOPSIS
In 1967, a secret government organization called The Cerebral Print Program, or "The Print", was created to capture and study extra terrestrials. Once in the lab, Scientists scoop out the alien brains and chuck them into a harvester which extracts and records the final memory so it can be viewed at a later date. The end result: a Cerebral Print. A group of government agents try their damnedest to keep the program a secret while the little grey bastards attempt to probe their way to freedom.
CEREBRAL PRINT: THE SECRET FILES is a compilation of these files.
Full Cast and Crew for
CEREBRAL PRINT: THE SECRET FILES
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Jed Rowen
Pvt. Parts/Harold the Babyboomer Asshole/Johnny Florida/Agent Santori/Cleetus/Mickey Crowbar/Anonymous Worker/Doctor Harry Samuels Beard/Homeless Joe
Ethan Phillips
Agent Larry Cornbloom
Felissa Rose
Carolyn The M.I.L.F./Tiffany
Richard Grove
Agent David Coleman
J.A. Steel
Sexy Bounty Hunter
Adam Ropp
Agent Norris/Pseudo Probee
David Stay
Agent Jefferson Kincaid
John Payne
Agent Gary Ladelfo/Cpl. Punishment/Da Boss
Vicky Jenson
Aspiring Conspiracy Filmmaker
Mighty Mike Murga
Mikey/Lil' Bruno
Ross Marshall
Boseefus
Rai Alexandra
Chickadee
Shahe Assilian
Sonny
Shiron Butterfly
Awards Show Host/Oscar Ray/
Probee #1
Jenny Labow
Baby
Katharina Lejona
Sylvania
Michaelia Carroll
Diamond
Scott Ingalls
Sgt. Slaughter/Stoolie/Alex Cabo/Donnie The Hat
Shaun Charney
Ninja/San Francisco Steve
Edwin Villa
Gay Jealous Julio
Greg Quinn
Clowaca
Thurman Jackson
Badass P.I.M.P.
J.P. Nickel
Agent Theolonious Nickel
Mitchel Auman
Agent Davis
Liz O'Gara
Doctor Mary Louise Beard M.D.
Zlicious
Sexpot Stefani
Heidi Martinuzzi
Bikini Whore
Derrick Abel
Man In Crowd
Carl Adams
Probee #2
Steve Anderson
Eccentric Billionaire
Ford Austin
Sir Lord William J. Dillingsworth Pickenstripe XIV Count Earl of Duke
Brian Corder
Bloodthirsty Bob
El Diablo
Benjamin/Victoria Esher/Woman in Crowd
Liliana Gullo
Pseudo Probee
David Lu
Vietnamese Gardner
Rick Luellen
Crazed Fan
Doug Phillips
Fan with Camera
Stacy Taylor
Show Presenter
Chuck Fonda
Mute Boy
Cassaundra Young
Probee #3
James Jackson
Alien Smut Peddler
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CREW
Written and Directed by:
Ford Austin
Executive Producers
James S. Anderson III
Thomas W. Anderson
Produced by:
Ford Austin
Associate Producer
Joseph Moore
Additional Material by:
Jed Rowen. Scott Ingalls, &
John Payne
Cinematography by
Ford Austin
Todd Kirschner
Second Unit Direction by:
Adam Ropp
Third Unit Direction by:
J.P. Nickel
Extra CGI effects by:
Wolfgang
Special Thanks:
Lauree Dash
DIRECTOR’S NOTES
At the 2003 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah,I sat down after having introduced a movie I am in called “Family Tree”. Its director, Vicky Jenson (“Shrek” & “Sharktale”) was back in LA and asked me to introduce the film.I sit down after speaking to the audience of about 300 die hard fans who filled the theater for a midnight screening in lieu of attending a much anticipated CAA party. They are laughing out loud and there are even some who talk back to the screen to the characters in the film, shouting, “Do this!”; Don’t do that!” and “OH my god!” The movie really moved them to respond when they clearly know it is a movie. And in the midst of all this hoopla…in the middle of watching myself up on the big screen…what happens to me? I start to daydream about this phenomenon and an idea starts to whirl around in my head based on what is happening to this audience. The idea is this: “What would happen if the film started watching you?” “What would you do if the movie you were laughing at suddenly stopped, turned around, and started laughing at you?” Well, this just blew my mind! All of these scenarios started to flood into my mind. And I started to picture the first cerebral print in my mind. “Cerebral Print: File #0604” starts to manifest. I am sitting in the middle of 300 people who are watching my movie, and I am fantasizing about these hicks in a trailer park who start to crowd the camera and laugh at it. Not even an hour ago I was standing in the middle of the Filmmakers Kiosk (at, in my opinion, the most influential and artistically-minded film festival there is) talking to director Dan Algrant about how he worked with Pacino and then chit-chatting with Gary Winick of Indigent Entertainment about the future of digital cinema in the marketplace and here I am daydreaming about trailer trash while my face is rising 30 feet into the air on a movie screen in front of a packed house.
That was how I first thought of the concept in, “‘What would you do?’ or ‘What would the audience do if the movie laughed at them?’” I thought the answer would be that people, including myself, would laugh back. I thought that the hick’s laughter in the movie would be infectious and that we would laugh along. Now, I have to confess something here. I spent the rest of the week at the festival thinking about that single thought…hicks laughing at the camera; not knowing what the meaning was. I never figured out how I would exactly accomplish this until a month later when I was driving up to the first location, Frazier Park, CA., with my cast and crew. I had no idea what these hicks were really looking at and I had to justify this somehow. And my main question was this, “What in the world would cause these hicks to stop their lives and turn to look and laugh at us, the audience?” Then it came to me. Nothing in the world would make them laugh at us. But something from out-of-this-world would. So I started working with the angle of the camera so the audience would feel like a wounded creature of some sort. This angle, combined with the fact that the hicks cannot identify the creature, leaves us feeling that we are the alien on the ground. It wasn’t till later that we actually came across the alien that we could use to make the illusion fully realized.
I found the alien on sale for $80 while I was trying to buy costumes for the concept of the film that I had started to develop. I then thought of the old commercial for the “Beggin Strips” that was completely shot through the dog’s point of view and how it made me and my friends laugh like crazy. (I should have bought all of the aliens because they are discontinued now.) It was then that I decided to make a series of short films from this alien’s point of view, calling each one of them a “cerebral print” file, which would be files developed and stored by the U.S. Government. I have the alien wielding a probe to add further interaction between him and the people who encounter him. People who have seen the film have asked me, “Is that what I think it is?” And my answer is, “yes!” The probe is what they think it is and it is one of 3 we used on the film. I promise that they are each sanitized after each shoot and even between takes on some occasions. We ended up shooting all over the country. Our first location was Frazier Park, California and we worked our way East and then back to finish in Canyon Country about 10 miles couth of Valencia, California.
Each of the twelve shorts took approximately 3-6 hours. The first 2: “Cerebral Print: File #0604” & File #371” were shot in the same day. After that, I decided to shoot only one per day. There was too much prep time in rehearsals for me and the actors since they are all one continuous take. We were all too exhausted after the first one. The shortest was “Cerebral Print V: Midget Deathmatch!” at under an hour! I actually shot it on the set of another film I was acting in called “Slaughter Party”. The longest one to shoot was the “Brothuh of Cerebral Print” which came in at 6 hours including the setup time.
One of the actors in the project, Jed Rowen, is featured in about 8 different parts. Interestingly enough, I have heard about a drinking game that some fans out in Oklahoma City are playing with the film that involves Jed where each person drinks a shot of alcohol each time Jed Rowen reappears. There is another one where you drink a beer every time someone gets “probed” or says the word “probe”.
It’s been really fun to see how everyone…and I mean, EVERYONE, responds to the little alien with the probe glued to his hand. Kids love him! Girls flirt with him! Guys want to hang out and drink beers with the little him! Well, maybe not the beers, but he has a growing fan-base, that’s for sure. When we were shooting the “Cerebral Print Halloween Special” for instance, we shot in this middle class suburban, “American dream-is-alive” neighborhood with little white picket fences and young happy families, yadda, yadda, yadda. Well, during the shoot we were outside and people started coming around to get closer looks at this alien. There was a little girl who came over with her dad and she fell in love with the alien so I let her play with him after the takes were finished. It was really awful to watch her dad pry her new best friend out of her arms and then carry her away. She was heartbroken.
Another interesting thing that happened was a phone call I received at about 10pm on a day off from the shoot. I am looking over my dailies from the day before and these two fairly famous conspiracy filmmakers, whom I have never met but know their work, call me at home. They proceed to encourage me to pay extra special attention to make sure that my film portrays aliens in a good manner. They also warned me that if I make aliens out to be naturally evil and violent in nature that it could create many problems for me. Well, fortunately for me, I have done my best to make the film a lighthearted look at the nice side of “alien behavior”. I am, however, a little concerned that these underground conspiracy theorist filmmakers won’t like the ending of the film. To them I say, “Ideally, good art is born of free expression.”
I plan on including many “Easter Eggs” on the DVD for science fiction fans; I want there to be tons! It will be up to our fans to find them. I plan on keeping in touch with fans through Angry Baby Monkey Pictures to receive hints. One of the DVD features will have alternate and deleted scenes including my appearance as a government agent trying to find his partner. To bring things full circle, Vicky Jenson will be featured in an exclusive interview where she talks about wanting to direct the film and some other amazing alien stuff that happened to her family!
CAST BIOS
Richard Grove (Agent David Coleman)
Born and raised in Arizona, Richard Grove earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Directing from the University of Arizona and a Masters degree from Yale University in acting. Upon finishing school, Richard moved to New York where he spent several years appearing in such stage productions as Close to The Knives, Hello and Goodbye, and many others. A short residence in Aspen Repertory Theatre led to Richard acting in such productions as Noises Off, The Foreigner, Macbeth, and Biloxi Blues. Richard has appeared on such TV shows as: ER. Eerie, Indiana, Knot’s Landing, Lois and Clark, Quantum Leap, Matlock, and Perry Mason. In feature films, he appeared in Point Break, Street Knight, Extreme Justice, and Scanner Cop. He also continues to appear in theater, and in to the praise he has drawn from his work with the avant garde company City Garage (especially Journey’s Among the Dead, Cabale and Frederick of Prussia), he also won a Dramalogue award for his performance in The Beethovens. Richard is best known for his co-starring turn as the flamboyant, heroic “Duke Henry the Red” in Sam Raimi’s cult favorite Army of Darkness, and thanks to that role, his face has appeared on trading cards, comic books, and pewter figurines. Richard is especially skilled with dialects (he’s played Russians in both The Flash and Tracey Takes On) and performing with prosthetic makeup (he’s played aliens on Babylon 5 and The Outer Limits). He is currently making short animated films that are featured on
Felissa Rose (Carolyn the MILF/Tiffany)
Felissa wasborn in St. Vincent's Hospital inGreenwich Village, NYC. When shewas three, her family moved to Woodbury, Long Island. Felissaalways wanted to be an entertainer and her mother wasvery involved in her life.
She began her career in horror/slasher films at the age of 13 when she won the part of the shy Angela for the film”Sleepaway Camp", which later became a cult classic and her trademark role. When Felissa worked with Adam Sandler in an MTV comedy titled"The Party Phone Series", she was inspired to begin formal training as a serious actress. She later met theater director Bill Primavera and became his muse, starring in many of his Off-Broadway including "Othello", "Savage in Limbo", "Madame Butterfly", "Tony N' Tina's Wedding"as well as many others.
While Felissa has appearedin TV commercials including those for the "Coke Classic", "Pepsi", "Tide" and "Pillsbury” brands; she has made a name for herself in the horror film world, starring in Troma Team type film called "Nikos the Impaler","Satan's Playground", "Dead Things", "Slaughter Party", "Dead Serious", "Destination Fame", "Under Surveillance", "Trite this Way" and "Scary Tales: The Return of Mr. Longfellow." She has had supportingroles in the zombiefilms "Zombiegeddon"and "Corpses Are Forever" that both played atfilm festivals and starred manycheesy B-movie celebrity actors. Felissa can be seen in three upcoming horror flicks so far titled "Dust to Dust", "Are You Going?" and "Curse of the Beast". She also worked as a casting assistant on "Return to Sleepaway Camp", but whether she'll be returning as Angela in the filmis a dark secret.
Ethan Phillips (Agent Larry Cornbloom)
Ethan Phillips’ New York stage credits include MY FAVORITE YEAR at Lincoln Center, MEASURE FOR MEASURE at the New York Shakespeare Festival, LIPS TOGETHER TEETH APART at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, ONLY KIDDING for the American Jewish Theatre, MODIGLIANNI at the Astor Place Theatre, as well as roles for Ensemble Studio Theatre, Hudson Guild Theatre, and Playwrights Horizons. He has appeared in the Los Angeles premiers of SIDE MAN at the Pasadena Playhouse, THE DINING ROOM at the Coronet Theatre, LIPS TOGETHER TEETH APART at the Mark Taper Forum, SIDE MAN at the Pasadena Playhouse, and also in LA in YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU at The Geffen and HAMLET at the Court Theatre, and in THE BOURGEOIS GENTLEMAN for the Pasadena Symphony. In regional theatre, leading roles at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre, Alaska Rep, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Center Stage in Baltimore, the Westport Country Playhouse, the Boston Shakespeare Co., Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, the Salt Lake Acting Co., and the McCarter Theatre. Films include the THE ISLAND, BAD SANTA, FAMILY TREE, FOR RICHER OR POORER, JEFFREY, THE SHADOW, WAGON’S EAST, MAN WITHOUT A FACE, GREEN CARD, LEAN ON ME, CRITTERS, and GLORY. On television Mr. Phillips has guest-starred on scores of shows and TV movies, and played ‘Pete’ on ABC’s BENSON for five seasons and the alien ‘Neelix’ on STARTREK: VOYAGER for seven seasons.
Jed Rowen (Pvt. Parts/Harold the Babyboomer Asshole/Johnny Florida/Agent Santori/Cleetus/Mickey Crowbar/Anonymous Worker/Doctor Harry Samuels Beard/Homeless Joe)