AFM: Simon Hynd's SENSELESS
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Distribution rights for Simon Hynd's Senseless will be offered for sale by Shoreline Entertainment Inc. at this year's American Film Market (AFM) in Santa Monica, California. Shoreline Entertainment will be in office #622 at the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel.
As was reported here on ScreenAnarchy back on June 11th, the screenplay for Senseless was written by Hynd, based on the eponymous novel by Stona Fitch. The movie apparently stars Jason Behr, Emma Catherwood, Joe Ferrara (a.k.a. Joe Ferrera), Lucy Liemann, Tam Dean Burn, and Toby Marlow.
Here's a synopsis (capitalization added) for Senseless that was on the website of Hynd's Simple Films: "Eliott Gast, an American economist, is abducted in Europe by a shadowy anti-globalisation group. Eliott spends forty days held hostage, each moment broadcast on the internet via dozens of cameras. His captors inform him that his eventual release depends on donations made to their cause by the millions of people watching. His mind racing, Eliott tries to understand why he is there, unearthing sins both small and large. Over the course of his captivity Eliott is deprived of his senses, one by one. His crime, his captors insist, demands justice."
Here's a description of Senseless from Shoreline Entertainment's website: "Elliot Gast was cruising on the road to success, until he became violently overturned by a group of political extremists and brutally tortured for acts he wasn't even aware that he had committed. Now, as his torment is streamed across the net as the most graphic and disturbing reality show yet, Elliott has nothing left but the will to fight back against the evils and try to plead to the masses as they safely watch from the other side of their computer screens. In this intense thriller where desperation and pain become the new currency, we expose a raw view of commercialism, capitalism, and the American Dream according to the new order of radical extremists."
Senseless trailer (downloadable 11.3 MB WMV file)
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Matador Pictures: Senseless
Shoreline Entertainment: Senseless
