THE BACKSTORY

Shot over seventeen days on 16mm B&W film, THE KILLING KIND was a $7,000, tribute to guerilla filmmaking. Written and directed by Paul Awad, the film stars  Tom Sean Foley, Lynette Lyall, Paul Ricioppo and Cindy Roberts and features the cinematography of Tyger Belton and gaffer Jon Morrison.  As the film was entering the final stages of post-production, a Hollywood producer optioned the award-winning screenplay with plans to turn into a big budget feature.  However, the project got stuck in turnaround and the original film sat on a shelf until the option ran out.  We are now happy to say we have full rights to release the original, low-budget project and are planning a new DVD release.

THE  STORY

Inspired by film noir and the pulp novels of the 1930’s and 1940’s, THE KILLING KIND is a tale of desperation and twisted loyalty.  Jack and Tuesday are two people whose lives are linked by fate and separate debts to Frank, a low level gangster.  Jack is a simple-minded ex-con drifter with a savant skill for cards.  Tuesday is a woman stripped of honor and desperate to escape her past.  Together they will either save or destroy one another.  From the dangerous, cigarette-smoking femme fatale to the alienated protagonist to the use of mirrors to confuse point of view to devious double-dealing, THE KILLING KIND utilizes the motifs that make film noir and neo-noir an intriguing and persistent genre.