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Tidbits: Mike Flanagan is a senior at Towson University majoring in film production. He has won many school-wide film awards. This is his directorial feature film debut. Steve Yeager, a member of the Maryland Film Festival advisory board, has been active in the Baltimore film and theater community for three decades. He has directed over three dozen theatrical presentations. In 1991, Steve produced, directed, and co-wrote his feature debut, On the Block. In 1998, Yeager won the prestigious Filmmaker's Trophy for Best Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival for Divine Trash. In January 1999, In Bad Taste, Yeager's sequel to Divine Trash aired on the Independent Film Channel. Steve is currently working on a feature film adaptation of The Connection, which he staged this past fall at Villa Julie College, in Baltimore.
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Premiere debut feature by Maryland native Mike Flanagan-a Towson
University student who met the challenge of instructor Steve Yeager
(director of 1999 Maryland Film Festival feature Divine Trash) by
writing a script that could be shot on campus, on digital video,
on a tight schedule, and on a tighter budget. The result is a refreshing
look into the lives of six college students. At the center is Ryan
Marzano, a college junior in the throes of a long-distance relationship
with Thatcher. When Ryan meets Dawn Peterson, he begins to entertain
ideas of fooling around. Meanwhile Ryan's best friend Gabe works
to repair his relationship with Lauren, the woman cheated on the
year before. Ryan's roommate Kyle, oblivious to the whole situation,
has fallen for Dawn. Set as a backstage story during a production
of Romeo and Juliet, Makebelieve builds towards its fateful climax.
The film is never patronizing, and unlike so many twentysomething
offerings from Miramax or the WB, treats its subjects like thinking,
mature individuals.