» Bill Cowell, Founder of The Buffalo Niagara
Film Festival is proud to announce a victorious
return for #2.
Bill pledges that this will be a spectacular 2nd year with large events and big
surprises to be talked about for years to come. Enjoyment to all, and to all
an enjoyable plight. See you soon.
The
Willing Suspension of Disbelief (thewillingsuspensionofdisbelief.com)-
Saturday, March 31st, 10:45am Downtown Buffalo/Theatre
District, Market Arcade Screen 1
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief
is a modern crime drama about a group of filmmakers
who enter the very underworld depicted in their
film in a desperate attempt to steal the money
they need to finish their production. Quentin,
their leader, is in a desperate search for an
audience whose validation, he believes, will
lend meaning not just to his films, but to his
very existence. Quentin delves deeper into the
criminal world as he indulges his own fantasies
of being a “wiseguy” while simultaneously trying
to complete his project. The story weaves in
and out of the real world and Quentin’s film,
challenging the audience’s perception of reality
and exploring the existential theme of whether
meaning comes from within or without.
The
Cast:
David Bliley, Erinn Gavaghan, Grant James,
Kevin Ely, Kit Haraughty, Kurt Geer, Mark
Loftis, Michael Jones, Ryan Hauser
DIRECTOR STATEMENT
Ryan Hauser graduated with a Bachelor of Arts
with highest honors from the University of
Oklahoma. He went back to OU for a short time
to study film before going on to attend The
American Film Institute's Center for Advanced
Film and Television Studies as a Producing
Fellow. After, producing several short films,
Ryan left Hollywood to teach Latin and World
History at a High School in Tulsa. He then
went on to attend Law School at the University
of Oklahoma where he graduated with Highest
Honors. Ryan continued writing screenplays
and got back into filmmaking after a chance
meeting with his co-director, Brandon Maxwell,
an old friend from film school. Together they
began tossing around ideas for a film they
could produce locally on a shoestring budget.
Ryan pitched the idea for "The Willing
Suspension of Disbelief," a story that
he had conceived many years ago when they
were in film school at OU. They began working
on the project and completed it only 3 short
years later.
This film was shot over the course of a year
and was entirely self-financed. This was the
first venture into the feature film world
for almost everyone involved.
