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Now in Pre-Production: 7 To The Palace writers Aasif Mandvi and Jonathan Bines, director David Kaplan
Synopsis:
"7 To The Palace" is a heartwarming New York style Tandoori comedy. Samir (Aasif Mandvi) is a talented cook who dreams of being a great French Chef, but when he is forced to abandon his dream and run his fathers Indian restaurant in Jackson Heights, his life is forever changed. Learning the alchemy of Indian cuisine from a mystical larger than life immigrant cab driver, Samir manages to heal himself and his family, fall in love and turn a dreary run down greasy spoon restaurant into one of New York's most talked about eateries. "7 To The Palace" is about food, family, love, magic and New York.
Currently in Development: A PRETTY GIRL writer/director Kimberly M. Wetherell
Synopsis:
Posturing as a well-to-do Manhattan socialite, a young, blue-collar-born woman discovers a dark family secret: her grandmother is not an Irish Catholic, but one of Poland's Hidden Children, a Jew who escaped the concentration camps through conversion. The two women are forced to confront their true identities as they both struggle to change the past-tense to present-perfect.
Currently in Development: TEXASSTYLE writer/director Alex Kilgore
Synopsis:
Fledgling screenwriter Jake Marlow (Matthew Stadelmann) and his hippie film professor, Mr. Mumford get in over their heads when they lie to their edgy dentist "financier", T Bob Dickey, telling him Luke Wilson is attached to their low budget film, "Texasstyle." Commerce crushes art and celebrity trumps all in this Lone Star Faust, a punk rock two step between investor and filmmaker on the "third coast."