Past Featured Films

Maniac du Jour
(DRAMA - 20 minutes)
Marc Freshman

In the near future, reality television is at its cultural and financial zenith. The smash hit, pop culture phenomenon 'Maniac du Jour' is imported from Britain to the United States as a means of radically revolutionizing an already booming business. In this show, an ordinary, mentally stable man is selected as the "Maniac" and granted 24-hours of government granted immunity from the law. The "Maniac" is free to murder anyone in the span of one day without any legal retribution, which is then broken up into 24 primetime episodes. The film documents the manner in which the producers attempt to manipulate the "Maniac" into committing murder for the sake of ratings. Filled with drama, comedy, violence and action, Maniac du Jour is a scathing satire on pop culture, television and the media.

Filmmaker Profile:

Marc was born and raised in lower Manhattan. After graduating from one of the top high schools in New York City, Marc attended the North Carolina School of the Arts School of Filmmaking, where he earned a BFA as a directing major. Afterwards, he moved back to New York, where he wrote a feature script, Maniac Du Jour (based on his senior thesis film of the same title), which landed him a manager and an agent at CAA. The feature script was then optioned by the producers of The Last Samurai. They are currently packaging the film in the hopes of shooting in the coming year.

Influenced by his love of Japanese films, Marc wrote a feature-length script called Hooligan, a revenge epic that centers around two Yakuza mercenaries who come to New York to track down the highest-paid killer in their syndicate. Hooligan was Marc's debut feature, and was recently sold to the Japanese film market.

Marc's newest project, Propaganda, is a futuristic, post-apocalytic New York thriller about a Lower East Side gang that inadvertantly gets entangled with assassins from the Irish Republican Army. Marc will be shooting three scenes from this feature script on 35mm in the hopes of gaining financing to shoot the feature. This project is currently in pre-production, and he is still casting and searching for interested producers, costume designers and art directors. He and his co-producer/cinematographer, Eric Sherertz, in 2007.