SYNOPSIS
Andy, deserted as a child by his father in 1979, discovers a forgotten 40 year old goodbye letter.
ONLINE WORLD PREMIERE
New Yorker - The Personal Side of an East German Spy’s Defection
SCREENINGS
Double Exposure Film Festival - Virtual Edition
Still Voices Film Festival, Ireland
Tribeca Film Festival, NYC (World Premiere)
Tribeca Film Festival, NYC (COVID Reschedule)
Ennesimo Film Festival, Italy
Beyond Borders Documentary Film Festival, Greece
DETAILS
Produced 2020
Documentary Short
UK/Germany/US
11’ , Color/B&W
1080P
DCP/Quicktime ProRes
THE CREW
Directed by
Scott Calonico
Written by
Scott Calonico & Harmon Leon
Excecutive Producers
Jeffrey Brown
Bill Hyman
Produced by
Scott Calonico
Jeffrey J. Radice
Harmon Leon
With
Andy Stiller Hudson
Werner Stiller
Editing by
Nathan McGinty
Camera
Lukasz Kulec
Music
Mike Smith
German Research & Translation
Sandy Wieding-Fries
Archival Research & Transfers
Rick Prelinger
Skip Elsheimer
Sound
Eric Friend
Color
Joe Malina
THE TEAM
Scott Calonico and co-director Jeff Radice have been producing films together for a number of years, starting with The King and Dick (Sundance 2003) all the way up through Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sudden Birth* (*but were afraid to ask) (Sundance 2019).
In 2014, Jeff premiered his feature debut No No: A Dockumentary at the Sundance Film Festival where it went on to be purchased for broadcast by both Netflix and Showtime.
Producer and Co-Writer Harmon Leon is an award winning, author, journalist, comedian, and filmmaker. He’s the author of eight books and his stories have appeared in VICE, Observer, BBC, Esquire, The Nation, Wired, National Geographic, Salon, and Ozy.
Producer Jeffrey Brown is an accomplished producer of documentary films both in Europe and the United States.
MORE INFORMATION
We are currently in late development on turning Andy’s story into a feature length documentary or series. For more information about the project please contact us by clicking the link below.