LOG LINE
Unusual New Age drama about a new way of knowing, dealing with life issues and spiritual awakening. Funny & deeply emotional, this story is filled with challenging questions about the meaning of our existence.
Doris predicts earthquakes bringing the end of the world as an unscrupulous reporter infiltrates and has the tragic secret of his life exposed by this beautiful and strange woman living in the desert.
PRODUCTION NOTES
This 98 minute theatrical feature is an unusual new age drama in the genre of WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW appealing to a devoted audience of a variety of aggregated niche communities comprising a huge and passionate movement concerned with the popular recognition of the emerging paradigm change of consciousness and culture as we move toward the year 2012.
This film is an evocative tale involving a new way of knowing, dealing with life issues and spiritual awakening. Both funny and deeply emotional, this story is filled with challenging questions about the meaning of our existence in a modern Cinderella Tale of a woman coming to wisdom.
StarvingFilmStudents is a collaboration of studio seasoned, award-winning film professionals championing independent ideas involving noetic themes in narrative feature films dealing with life issues, self-discovery, and consciousness evolution.
The cast are recognizable professionals with established track records in major feature films, award-winning and top-10 television series, theatrical and musical shows, and critically acclaimed documentary and arts programming.
The unique and remarkable musical SCORE has been composed by Julliard graduate and industry veteran Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum.
The screenplay for THE APOCALYPSE... ACCORDING TO DORIS was selected as a finalist in the first Sundance Writer's Lab.
CAST
Jaime Gomez
Elise Robertson
Christian Meoli
Nicholas Downs
Brynn Horrocks
Brian Oblak
Donna Pieroni
Ameenah Kaplan
Cynthia Dane
Ula Gomez
SYNOPSIS
This is a story about women seeking personal enlightenment - a
modern fairy tale that makes us laugh at ourselves and reminds us
that happiness is in the last place we look for it - inside.
A spiritually subversive comedy, THE APOCALYPSE… ACCORDING TO
DORIS is an unlikely story of a woman seeking empowerment and self-discovery while balancing fantasy and many strange experiences in
the midst of a dysfunctional family.
A wacky bunch of assorted nuts and lost souls are drawn to this
odd and beautiful woman - and end up finding redemption in an
unexpected way.
After channelling the voice of Vananda, she predicts a series of earthquakes and Doris becomes an overnight media sensation. Her home is overrun with reporters, Trekkies, UFO freaks, and true believers who turn her screwed-up
family inside out and reveal what's really going on.
Felix walks in, a broadcast journalist with a chip on his shoulder
bigger than the state of Nevada - infiltrating Doris' group - and
receives the surprise of his life when she channels the voice of
his murdered daughter.
In the ensuing confusion of Doris' marital problems with alcoholic
husband Tom, she is drawn to Felix against her better judgment as
these comically eccentric characters question the meaning of their
lives and likely (or unlikely) future.
This existential comedy is complicated by confirmation of Doris'
predictions - and as they face personal apocalypse, Doris finds a
trickster-like humor that surprises her friends into awareness of
their silly behavior and lives.
When spurned in his affections toward Doris by an innocent
deception, Felix plots the perfect humiliation for Doris before
live news cameras.
But Doris has a few surprises of her own, and changes Felix's life
forever in this modern fairy tale about News at 11, and the
notable absence of our Creator.
VICTOR GOSS - Writer/Producer/Director
BIO - VICTOR GOSS
A camera has always been in Victor’s hands. With his parents on vacation at age 4, he wandered Yosemite Valley carrying an Ansco 620 around his neck trying to duplicate the photography of Ansel Adams he’d seen lining the walls in the gift shop at the Ahwahnee Hotel.
Back home he was hypnotized by the moving image of 35mm film dancing in the arclight of the projector gate. This was a bedtime story for Victor, as his dad babysat him in the projection booth of their drive-in theater at night.
Victor recited nursery rhymes on camera while his dad tested equipment used for making newsreels before cable brought network TV to the Santa Maria Valley. When TV finally finished off the drive-in business for good, Victor moved south looking for a career in the studios.
After running errands as a gopher on an AIP summer Beach Blanket film and picking up work doing every job on the set, Victor bought a motion picture camera of his own and began shooting and directing national TV commercials, and winning important awards.
Victor’s background in writing - and commercials - brought him to the hit TV series WONDER YEARS as cinematographer and 2d unit director. The Golden Globe and multiple Emmy-winning GABRIEL’S FIRE (James Earl Jones) followed where Victor - along with a handful of fellow TV commercial-making alumni – brought a visual revolution to dramatic TV that continues to advance to this day.
A decade of episodic television brought opportunities to develop further cinematography and director chops and to gain the confidence and abilities to shoot difficult schedules - cutting through the fog of production, and delivering exciting stories on-time and on-budget.
Victor’s experience with writing, performers, and cinematography through shooting concert films, commercials, and dramatic films - for both television and the big screen - has given him insight into achieving storytelling style and statement with a camera, appropriate to his CINEMA PARADISO upbringing.
This successful film career has been built upon a study of eastern philosophy and meditation under an authentic Tibetan master for fourteen years, coupled with life-long research of anomalous science and psychic adventures – which together have catapulted Victor to this quintessential creative crossroads of existential cinema.