FADE OUT - SYNOPSIS, PRODUCTION NOTES, AND CREW



April 4, 2008 . Landed Entertainments General



Fade Out revolves around a North American production company shooting a feature film in Seoul, Korea. As filming begins, cast and crew alike find themselves ensnared in precarious relationships that threaten the completion of the film. The male lead drifts into drugs and prostitution, abandoning his wife and young child back home; the female lead battles with alcoholism, anorexia, and a desperate producer; and the writer/director falls for a beloved Korean actress with a secret powerful enough to ruin her reputation and tear their relationship apart. With their lives unfolding alongside the plot of the film, one begins to question: does art imitate life? Or does life imitate art?


ALI MASHAYEKHI, WRITER / PRODUCER

Ali Mashayekhi is an ambitious leader with an insatiable appetite for success. As President of Landed Entertainments, Ali has been personally responsible for producing nearly a dozen short films, a feature film, writing four plays, and had been selected by the Space Channel (a Canadian affiliate of the Sci-Fi Network) to produce a segment for their first ever reality television show.

Mr. Mashayekhi's films have been screened at New York and Los Angeles Film Festivals, as well as at various Canadian festivals. As showcased in "The Pretender", Mr. Mashayekhi's ability to incorporate established local talent with a cutting edge storyline has become the standard of Independent producing.

By associating Landed Entertainments with Juno Award Winners, Gemini nominees, and various popular television hosts, Mr. Mashayekhi has proven his keen eye for talent and success. These traits have allowed Mr. Mashayekhi to lead an extraordinary team into different productions with prosperous results.



JUNGA SONG, DIRECTOR

Junga Song was born in Busan, South Korea. Ever since she was a child, she knew that she wanted to make movies, and in 1999 she immigrated to Canada to pursue her dream. She graduated from the Toronto Film School's Digital Film and Televisions Production program, and completed a Film Studies course at the University of Toronto. In her time at these schools, she directed several short films, documentaries and music videos. One of her shorts, "The Cruel School", received the Dean's Award and was awarded "Best Film" at the Toronto Film School in 2000.

In 2002, Junga shot a 45-minute documentary called "Hope for Life" on the subject of brain injuries. The film was distributed to several hospitals in North America and served as a supporting document in passing a bill regarding helmet legislation.

After the success of her documentary, she decided to fine-tune her directorial skills and enrolled in the Advanced Film post-graduate program at Sheridan College. While there, she directed "Love Recipe," an 8-minute short film that went on to screen at several film festivals including the Montreal World Film Festival, Vancouver Asian Film Festival, and Toronto Short Film Festival. The film also came in third place at a competition at the Canadian International Annual Film/Video Festival.

Her next film, "Dead Origins," was shot on Super 16mm with the Toronto-based production company, Landed Entertainments. The film is 27-minutes long, and was shot in June 2006. She followed it up with another short for Landed, "Reflection". She is attached to direct two feature films with Landed Entertainments over the next two years.