Teddy Boy

Teddy Boy

Teddy Boy | A film by Sean JS Jourdan

Teddy Boy

A rising tennis star becomes entangled in a savage charade with a grieving couple while staying in their picturesque home.

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She touches his shoulder as she stands and looks out onto the lake. .

HELENE (CONT’D): He’s here.

She begins to make her way to the forest, passing her husband who remains seated. As he rises to follow his wife, Jakob wipes his eye with the back of his hand. James touches his face and looks at his own hand as Helene approaches. He’s a mess.

HELENE (CONT’D): When we scattered our son’s ashes in this cove the fish, the fish thought he… The dark humor of it makes her giggle.

HELENE (CONT’D): It… was food…

James smiles.

HELENE (CONT’D): They ate him all up. It’s kind of funny in a way – but, until today – just now, I guess, they didn’t come back.

Jakob makes his way into the forest. The SOUND Of JAMES SNEEZING.

HELENE (CONT’D): Bless you. Following her, he holds up his hand as if to say “thanks” as they enter the woods.

The Beekeeper

The Beekeeper

The Beekeeper

Taking place within the confines of a summer afternoon, this evocative drama explores the ramifications of an affair between a beekeeper and his’s sons girlfriend, already a single mother, who has become pregnant. Spurned by the beekeeper, the girlfriend tells the son that he’s going to be the father, which causes him to rethink his decision to leave his small town and go to college. The beekeeper’s wife is hardly naive, and knows the truth. As the affair is both concealed and revealed, it ultimately rattles the foundations of the family, threatening to blow it apart.

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Screenplay Excerpt

William is looking at the folded American flag encased in the wooden case.

RAYLENE: That’s Bob’s. Here.

She hands him the glass of iced tea.

RAYLENE (CONT’D): Cheers. I’d offer you something stronger, but I’m not altogether sure you’re old enough to drink it.

WILLIAM: This is fine, thank you.

She motions in the direction of the encased flag.

RAYLENE: It’s heavy too. Bob was, and is, thanks to that walnut case there, one heavy dude.

WILLIAM: It looks it.

RAYLENE: You want to pick it up?

WILLIAM: No thanks.

She takes a drink from her tea.

RAYLENE: You should ask your dad about my Bob. They were pals, you know, before he got shipped off. Your dad was one of the lucky ones, had your grandparents to look after him – always did.

She laughs to herself, remembering an incident or two, as she approaches the wooden case.

RAYLENE (CONT’D): Bob had me.

This brings another smile to her face as she wipes the dust off the top of the case and glances at her blackened finger tips.

RAYLENE (CONT’D): I should dust you more often.

She rubs her hands together to get it off.

RAYLENE (CONT’D): I have no doubt he would have tried to take good care of us, my Bob, had he made it out of there.

Raylene turns to face William.

RAYLENE (CONT’D): Sometimes that’s enough, you know? Just to try.

Cast & Crew

Cast

Michelle Mueller (Robin Laettner)

Sophie Johnson (Martha Laettner)

Michael Joseph Thomas Ward (Phil Shaw)

Oksana Fedunsyzn (Stella Shaw)

Joseph Bicicchi (William Shaw)

Crew

Sean JS Jourdan (Writer | Director | Producer)

Kuba Zelazek (Director of Photography)

Stacia Allen (Production Designer)

Willis P Jenkins (Composer)

Nick Martin (Editor)

An Open Door

An Open Door

An Open Door

Forgotten as a wife and co-worker, Michelle Watson, in a last ditch effort to save her marriage, convinces her husband, William, to take a much-needed vacation. When their son falls ill, she must cancel their plans and share with William a painful secret that can save their marriage.

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Cast & Crew

Cast

Nathan Read (Nathaniel)

Suzanne Lang (Michelle)

Tim Cunningham (William)

Heidi Klefstad (Julie)

Stacie Doublin ( Sandra Dougherty)

Susie Cornett (Rhonda Thompson)

Crew

Sean J.S. Jourdan (Writer/Director)

Amy Rising (Producer)

Kuba Zelazek (Director of Photography)

Carmen Navis (Production Designer)

Willis P. Jenkins (Composer)

Nick Martin (Editor)

JT Mueller (Location Mixer)

Who’s Mama? Joe Mama?

Who’s Mama? Joe Mama?

Who's Mama? Joe Mama! | A film by Sean JS Jourdan

Who’s Mama! Joe Mama!

Joe Ma Ma, a former outlaw biker, revisits the tough relationship he had with his own father, jail time, and the death of his two older sons, as he prepares for, and attends, a pumpkin race with his youngest boy.

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Credits

Film by: Sean JS Jourdan

Sound Mixer: Diego Trejo, Jr

Special Thanks: Joe Ma Ma and the Joe Ma Ma Family

Dr. Loser, Esq.

Deborah Cordes

J. Steven Castleberry

Jeff Spitz

Documentary Center – Columbia College, Chicago

La Re’activision de Marilyn

La Re’activision de Marilyn

La Re'activision de Marilyn | A short film by Sean JS Jourdan

La Re’activision de Marilyn

A pleasure android, Marilyn, is designed with the ability to take the memories of her clients and physically transform herself to their fantasy or memory, thereby embodying their desire in both body and spirit. She is flawed, however, in that fragments, un-erased bits, of her clients memories and feelings remain within her, thus bringing forth a consciousness and realization as to her true function.

Alerted to this activity, the Corporation must reset her, so she can complete her duties as a prostitute.

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Cast & Special Thanks

Cast

 

Voice of Marilyn: Laura Lonigro

Image of Marilyn: Megan Schenk

Special Thanks

Deborah Cordes

J. Steven Castleberry

Paula Froehle

Josephine Griffith

The Lonigros

Columbia College, Chicago