LUX FREER Film
Triple Threat Independent Film Project (IFP) 2022: "Lux Freer"
Film Fest News
"Lux Freer" is slaying on the film fest circuit—just our lux!
World Premiere: Feb 2023, Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival
Triple Threat cast members with director Cynthia Gibb
at the world premiere of "Lux Freer" in L.A.
Ridgefield Independent Film Festival – May 20, 2023
RIFFCT "Lux Freer" won Outstanding Narrative Short!
Dances With Films, Chinese Theatre, Hollywood – June 25, 2023
Cynthia Gibb, Momo Burns-Min, Jill Mann, and
Jennifer Ryan with a reporter at Dances With Films
Bridgeport Film Festival – Sept 8, 2023
Out Film CT, Hartford – Oct 14, 2023
Dances With Films, New York – Dec 3, 2023
Awards
Best USA Film – Cinematography Awards NY
Best First-Time Director (go Cynthia Gibb!) – Cinematography Awards NY
Best Narrative Short Film – Ridgefield Independent Film Festival
Best LGBTQ Short – Honorable Mention at L.A.'s Indie Short Fest
"Lux Freer" was created during our annual summer film camp, in which our students — both novice and professional actors — collaborate with a professional crew to create a film and gain experience both in front of the camera and in crew apprentice roles. Bravo to the 24 actors who made this movie magic with us!
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Logline: A middle-class, non-binary teen feels like an outcast in their new town of rich jocks and beauty queens, until a wishing well and the most popular guy in town embolden the teen to take in the view from the top of the social ladder.
Synopsis: Lux Freer, a middle-class, non-binary teen (played by non-binary teen Echo Bodell) has recently moved to ritzy Westport, where they have the humiliating after-school job of delivering pizzas. Nothing could be worse than arriving at aspiring prom queen Arabella Astor’s mansion wearing a cap emblazoned with pepperonis. Lux’s encounter there with the bully Arabella and her kind-hearted beau Drew sets in motion a plot to upend the social stratosphere at Westport Academy. A mysterious wishing well adds to Lux’s world opening up into a place of possibility rather than a place they never fit in. At the school’s talent show, Lux’s fantasy comes true and even the most macho jock in town learns something about tolerance.
Directed by Cynthia Gibb
Written by Jill Johnson Mann
Produced by Jill Johnson Mann and Cynthia Gibb
Triple Threat Co-Directors Cynthia Gibb and Jill Mann at the Cast & Crew Screening of "Lux Freer" at Sacred Heart Community Theatre in Fairfield
On set with renowned actress Jean Louisa Kelly
CAST (In Order of Appearance):
Lux Freer ECHO BODELL
Ziggy Zingerman FIN MADDALONI
Patricia Astor JEAN LOUISA KELLY
Arabella Astor JOSY PITARO
Olivia Gray ARIANA BRODOWS
Cole Phillips JAMIE MARTIN MANN
Drew Fields CAMERON MANN
Cecily Astor NATALIA MANN
Ruby Monet CLAIRE BUTLER
Poppy Sinclair SOPHIE JASMIN WALTHER
Liam Kelly BLAKE RAHO
Annika Johanson SAMANTHA EDWARDS
Pari Singh JASMITA MANI LORENZATO
Lina Freer LEANNA MITEV
Malgorzata Laska LINDE GIBB
Mr. Grigio MARIO MANNA
Kimberly Jae Kim MOMO BURNS-MIN
Maya Rosenberg ROSIE KAUPPINEN
Mrs. Krabbe MARKLEY RIZZI
Nora Kelly BARBARA MCKECHNIE
Jerry Kelly KEN BARILE
Mrs. Johanson DEB KATZ
Miss Savannah JENNIFER MALAQUIAS RYAN
Ensemble Singer JANE FIFFER
Associate Producer JEAN LOUISA KELLY
Director of Photography MIKE GALEOTTI
Editor COLTON ANDERSON-OLIVAREZ
Assistant Director ALLIE O’BRIEN
2nd Assistant Director MOMO BURNS-MIN
2nd 2nd Assistant Director DANIELLE CALABRESE
Hair and Makeup Designer KATHLEEN FILLION
Costume Designer/Set Decorator PAVLETA LANDJEVA-MITEV
Assistant Costume Designer ZOE MANN
Camera Assistants MATT VALADE VINZ ODIEDI
Sound Mixer JEFF LAMSON
Sound Assistant ALESSANDRO MAIONE
Boom Operator PAUL WALTHER
Stage Lighting Designer AVERY PERLSTEIN
Script Supervisor NOLAN DEGRAFF
Property Master JANE FIFFER
Production Coordinator NICOLA WALTHER
Choreographer JAMIE MARTIN MANN
Music Supervisor ANDREW CARL WILK
Music Director MOMO BURNS-MIN
Colorist DANIEL DORMANN
Covid Compliance Officer STEPHEN COLLINS
Catering
PLANET PIZZA
THE PORCH AT CHRISTIE’S
JOE’S PIZZA
GAETANO’S
MUSIC
“MONARCH”
Written by Echo Bodell and Larry Edoff
Produced by Larry Edoff
Performed by Echo Bodell and the kids’ cast of “Lux Freer”
“SUMMERBREAK '18”
Written by Sam Eigen and Larry Edoff
Performed by Sam Eigen, Larry Edoff, Andy Abel, Tyger MacNeal, and Dave Anderson
“BURNING LOW”
Written by Echo Bodell and Larry Edoff
Produced by Larry Edoff
Performed by Echo Bodell
“DANCING, RAINING SCENERY”
Composed and performed by Larry Edoff
“FREAKSHOW”
Written by Echo Bodell and Larry Edoff
Produced by Larry Edoff Performed by Echo Bodell
Special Thanks to:
Anne Westlake for Lux’s epic station wagon
Verso Studios
Dr. Rosen at Bedford Middle School
Planet Pizza
The Porch at Christie’s
Dan Woog at 06880
The Spot at Just Dance
SAG-AFTRA