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ARTIST
THE ARTIST
 
World Premiere

Director: Erik Eger

Sweden, 2001, 16min
Format: DigiBeta (screening) - 16mm (shooting)
Festival Edition: 2001
Category: Short
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Cast:  Amir Chamdin, Giovanni Barcia
Crew:  production company: Producer Barbara Celis / The Family Productions, New York University and Fuggedaboudit Productions - screenwriter: Erik Eger/Peter Boynton - cinematographer: Brian Fass - editor: Erik Eger/ Matteo Costagnola - original score: Joakim Starander
Sales:  Barbara Celis: T (718) 599 1134 - F (718) 599 0866
Email:  Barcelisaol.com

synopsis
Frank Rivers dreams of becoming an artist. He believes that if he works hard enough, trying every art-form on the planet, he will have success. But life as a struggling artist is poor and being from a rough neighborhood in Brooklyn doesn't make it any easier. Trying to finance his career he borrows money from a friend of the family. But there's a problem: the friend is a sworn member of the mob.

director
Erik Eger, born in Sweden but in love with Spain, where he lives at the moment, has directed commercials and music videos for almost ten years. The Artist is his first short film. It was shot to complete his Certificate of Directing at New York University. It features famous Swedish rapper Amir Chadmin.


filmography
No song unheard, The Hellacopters, music video, (2000) - Hopeless case of a kid in denial, The Hellacopters, music video, (2000) - PBS Swedish Commercial about Traffic Awareness, (2000)

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