Having our home base in New York City, maintaining our Outreach Program, running the physical theater, creating our Paris location, the constantly evolving nature of entertainment, our artist considerations, our various creative teams, and our desire to support and encourage the varying and constantly growing interests of each of our participants make "Current Projects" an ever changing corner of the PST website. So if this page changes, it is not because any project is being set aside for another. It is only to list the things in which we are immediately immersed. For the moment, our top current projects include:
- Creation of our new store, "Cinema Verité," at 457 West 50th Street, between 9th and 10th Avenues, Manhattan.
"Creating, envisioning and curating a new shop out of the desire to merge art, spirit & soul with daily commerce is a dream I've had since discovering my own inate ability to do just that. I learned long ago that if you can't find it in the world, you need to create it yourself. Be the change. After eight years of managing a thrift shop that was church owned but not church run...I found I had a knack for creating an environment that caused and encouraged people towards a harmonious appreciation of the aestetics of space and the moment. It is possible to work effortlessly to create an environment that becomes a canvas whereby people feel comfortable, nourished and embraced by the anchor of a loving heart. Selling merchandise can be as soulful an act as an embrace...if there is awareness and authenticity and connection. One sets the tone, much like a director, then steps back to let reality take it's course. That's how Cinema Verite, the shop, was born." - Peter Valentyne, Curator, "Cinema Verité."
- Promotional Campaign for "Tied To A Chair," screened at BIG CINEMAS MANHATTAN 239 East 59th Street, between 2nd and 3rd Avenues
New York, NY 10022 for a one week run beginning May 27, 2011. See our review in the New Yorker as it appeared on our opening date.
- New York Theatrical Premiere of Michael Bergmann's "Milk & Money" ran for one week from October 22 - 28, 2010 at
BIG CINEMAS MANHATTAN
239 East 59th Street, between 2nd and 3rd Avenues
New York, NY 10022
- Renovations at our New York location with the help of many of of friends, all of our donors and under the supervision and aegis of Cosmo Construction, Interior and Exterior
- Continuing Outreach in any way PST or its advisors can be of assistance
- Interviewing Potential Interns for the exciting year ahead
- Developing Formal Donor Networking Interface so that our donors can work with and for each other. They are, each to a man and a firm, so incredibly competent and honorable
- Accepting submissions for 2012 Artist-in-Residence
- Completing Website with Cassie Designs and C. Smith (she rocks) with Graphic Design by Hyewon Cho
- Re-formatting of Michael Bergmann's "Trifling With Fate" starring Bridget Moynahan and Gordon Elliot, to ten 9 minute webisodes link to Youtube. Stay tuned!
Read the review in Variety
Starring Bridget Moynahan and Gordon Elliott.
Sarah Winkler, Teri Lamm, Ed Vassallo, Vivienne Benesch,
Robin Dorian, Ryan Dunn, Rob Gerlach, Charles Tuthill, and Beth Zetlin
Produced By Michael Bergmann, Lexi Robertson and Sarah Winkler
Original Music Written And Performed By Doug Scofield
"Trifling With Fate" was first shown to the public as a work-in-progress at the Avignon/NY Film Festival in late April, 2000. Its world premiere took place at the Avignon Film Festival in Avignon, France on June 26, 2000.
- Distribution and release of "The Reality Trap," written and directed by Michael Bergmann, starring Kevin Stapleton, Tovah Feldshuh, David Hedison, Anna Belknap, Hedy Burress and Bonnie Loren
The Reality Trap
"The Reality Trap" is a movie in which violence is mentioned almost continuously, but we never see a single violent act. Jill (Bonnie Loren), a sociologist who is a professor at Columbia, has written a book about adultery in America. When she appears on Hank Pulley's talk show to promote her book, Hank (Kevin Stapleton) surprises her by introducing her to the wives of two men with whom Jill had affairs. Shocked and humiliated, Jill decides to use her resources as an educated intellectual to fight back and lures Hank's show into doing an investigative program on a subject Hank should never have touched.
"This satirical caper-comedy starts when a repentant ex-adulteress/sociology professor goes on a talk show to promote her book on adultery and is surprised by the host, who confronts her with the wives of her ex-lovers. Humiliated, she hatches a brilliant plot that will culminate in the host's humiliation. He realizes she is after him and starts his own counter-plot,raising the stakes in this cat and mouse game and leaving the winner very much in question." Written by Twin Rivers Media Festival
We invite you to read Lisa Nesselsson's review in "'Variety."
