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Synopsis

"Bittersweet Life" a 18 minute short film, is about a sixty year old CEO of a venture company, Jack. At the start of the film, Jack's company goes bankrupt and causes him to loose everything. Now not able to support his employees and family, Jack becomes suicidal and goes to the Brooklyn docks to kill himself by drowning. At the docks, Jack finds an abandoned shopping cart and decides to use it to ensure his drowning. Peter, a homeless-man of similar age to Jack, approaches Jack and claims that the cart is his. And so, at the site of Jacks suicide attempt, the two men start a conversation and end up saving each other's life by finding new a new perspective on and a new meaning to life.
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CAST

Homelessman................William Beckwith

Jack................................Todd Lewis

Policeman.......................Decater James

Wife.................................Victoria Guthrie

Boy..................................Alexander Jameson

Executive Producer.........Bob Gilardi

Producer..........................Kary Sarrey

Music...............................Rachael Yamagata

Editor...............................Francesco Portinari/Ryan Kwon

DP....................................Inyoung Choi

2nd DP............................Joongho Choi

Gaffer..............................Sane Chung

AD...................................George F. Lamboy III

Script Supervisor.............Areum Jung

Stylist...............................Janghyun Kim

Sound..............................Keith Kurtis

Makeup............................Amber Moelter

PA ...................................Yoseph Chai

Eunseok Choi

Seungwon Park

Sunghwab Cho

Seungmin Park

Xin Yuan

Wei-Li tu

Qing Mei

Chris Ungco

Writen and Directed By Ryan Kwon

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Director/Writer

Ryan Kwon

•Born and raised in Korea.•Worked as an actor for 10 a year period; graduated with BFA from Chung-Ang University.•Moved to New York City to pursue his long time dream to be a film director.•Obtained his MA from NYCs School of Visual Arts, film division. •Is preparing to make a five episode feature film, with Bittersweet Life one of the episodes.

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William Beckwith

Son, spouse, parent, friend, fellow worker. Theater: The Peter Hall Company, The Riverside Shakespeare Company, Midtown International Theatre Festival and more; Characters/Plays: Svetlovidov, Thomas More, Salieri, Richard III, Macbeth, Anthony, and more. Film: The Ragman, Bittersweet Life, Scent of a Woman, Dr. Ambedkar, and more. Also an award winning fine artist and an interactive director, producer and designer.
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Todd Lewis

Todd Lewis began his professional career in Chicago. After receiving his B.A.in acting he continued his studies with the infamous Stella Adler and others inNew York while performing in off and off-off Broadway shows, regional stageproductions, commercials, industrial shows both filmed and live, voice-overs, filmand TV.His film, Mom, was shown at the Garden State Film Festival 2010.He is currently in production for two New York based films; 8:46, a series ofvignettes of individuals stories directly preceding the first plane attack on theWorld Trade Center; and Asbury Park, USA, highlighting the re-emerging musicscene post Springsteen and Southside Johnny.Currently in post-production and scheduled to be released this fall, Civil War, apolitical action film features Todd as General Tor Johnson, a mercenary for bigbusiness.
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4 Episode

5 Story About Life

BitterSweet Life is a part of a film about five different stories about life Ryan Kwon is in the process of making. The film will consist of five episodes:

Episode 1 : BitterSweet Life.....DesperationEpisode 2 : Touchstone.....JusticeEpisode 3 : Espresso Dream.....LoveEpisode 4 : Classified.....DeathEpisode 5 : Yellow Scarf.....Memory
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