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Budding Director
Hendersonville’s Jon Russell Cring keeps on cranking a movie a month
Jim Ridley
Published on May 03, 2007
In the time it takes many indie auteurs to complain they just can’t find any funding, Jon Russell Cring will have premiered his third completed feature in less than four months—with another in the can and another ready to shoot. With the premiere 7 p.m. Thursday of Budd at Gallatin’s Palace Theatre, the Hendersonville filmmaker and his F3 Films will be a third of the way through their Extra/Ordinary Film Project—an attempt to produce and premiere 12 locally made feature films in as many months.
After January’s comedy Bernee (which has played at regional festivals) and March’s thriller Ought, Budd comes as something of a palate cleanser—a comedy about an English teacher (D.R. Smith) whose classroom meltdown prompts a round of regression therapy with a psychiatrist (Paige Trewitt). Of special note is an appearance by Valri Bromfield, a veteran film and TV comic who performed on the very first episode of Saturday Night Live and worked early on in a comedy team with Dan Aykroyd. Now a Nashville resident and customer-service rep with the Nashville Symphony, she appears in the film as what Cring calls “Budd’s slightly psychotic, masochistic mother.”Co-directed with Cring’s wife Tracy, who also serves as cinematographer and editor, Budd is said to be appropriate for ages 14 and up. Next up: the high school romance Too, followed by a nine-day shoot this month for the homeless drama $6 Man. If only Terrence Malick worked at this pace. Tickets for the screening are $5; for more information on this and future films, see extraordinaryfilmproject.com.
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