AsTheyGo PRODUCTIONS / SANTA CRUZ FILM FESTIVAL presents LIVING IN MISSOURI

AsTheyGo Productions is proud to announce the Santa Cruz premiere of the award-winning independent feature film, Living in Missouri, that Variety called a Midwestern mix of 'Clerks and 'Chuck and Buck", and will screen June 4, 2003 at 7:30 PM as a part of the Second Santa Cruz Film Festival.

AsTheyGo PRODUCTIONS/SANTA CRUZ FILM FESTIVAL
presents the award-winning independent feature film
LIVING IN MISSOURI

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 2003 7:30 PM
SIGNATURE RIVERFRONT TWIN
155 S River St., Santa Cruz, CA, 95060

Directed by Shaun Peterson
Written by Connor Ratliff
Produced by Connor Ratliff and Shaun Peterson
Featuring
Connor Ratliff, Ian McConnel, Crissy Puzzo and Holmes Osborne as 'Uncle Roy

Directed and co-produced by UC Santa Cruz alumnus SHAUN PETERSON, LIVING IN MISSOURI features CONNOR RATLIFF as 'Ryan, who also wrote and co-produced the film. LIVING IN MISSOURI features another UCSC graduate, IAN MCCONNEL as 'Todd, (as well as the work of many other UCSC alumni), CRISSY PUZZO as 'Amy and independent film veteran, HOLMES OSBORNE (The Quiet American, Donnie Darko, Election) as 'Uncle Roy.

LIVING IN MISSOURI is a comedy of manners which tells the story of Ryan, Amy, and Todd, whose humdrum Midwestern lives are starting to come apart at the seams. Personal betrayals abound when childhood friendships, broken-down marriages, and long-repressed desires come into conflict over the course of one tumultuous Missouri autumn.

WINNER, Best Feature (Seattle Underground Film Festival)
WINNER, Best Acting Ensemble (Ashland Independent Film Festival)
WINNER, Best Feature, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Screenplay & Best Director (New York Struggling Artist Film Festival)
WINNER, Independent Achievement Award, (New York Film & Video Festival)
WINNER, Special Achievement Award, (Kansas City Filmmaker's Jubilee)

Curiously compelling... a suburban Jules & Jim, stripped of romance but laced with wry humor" ragtagfilm.com

Four stars! ...as funny as it is luridly depressing." Merle Bertrand, Film Threat
   
Complex as well as funny" Dennis Harvey, Variety

Sets a high standard for contemporary comedies" Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
   
Superbly acted... Devastating... low-to-no-budget moviemaking at its best" Richard Butler, Kansas City Star

...a wonderful character driven film that is interesting and engrossing" The Lodger, filethirteen.com

www.livinginmissouri.com
www.santacruzfilmfestival.com