Jazz Girl
Story Synopsis:
Atilla the Hun Meets Billie Holiday
In the Philippines: When an international agri-corp invades her rural community, buying up family farms and sending a carabao she had ridden since childhood to the slaughter house, a jazz singer turns environmental warrior. She teams up with her band’s piano player (a free-range chicken farmer by day) to protect a disappearing way of life. The rogue nature champions soon bump heads with the chief of police and an hysterical CEO as the band sets about demolishing a chain of corporate fruit stands in an escalating series of attacks culminating at corporate headquarters. A juicy tale of mayhem and soulful crooning.
Production
Jazz Girl is an independent international production of Blue Island Films, written and directed by Tim Fitzharris and starring Casey Villaro. Co-producer Jesse Fitzharris played a key role in ensuring the film’s cultural authenticity, drawing on his Filipino heritage to guide creative decisions, while also contributing as writing consultant and sound designer to shape the story and sonic experience.
Director
TIm Fitzharris
Blue Island Flms Productions LLC
Cast
Casey Villaro
Phoebe Balatero
John Michael Eyo
Melcher Daniels Jr.
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King of the Feather Wars
An inadvertent flying foreskin and a near crucifixion in a mango tree launch two country-singing teens, Beau and Annie, on an island-hopping romp across the Philippines.
Hard times set them to scamming cockfights with a lovable overweight rooster while Annie’s jacked, tricycle-racing boyfriend and his "Midnight Rocket" keep them one step ahead of the police and their homophobic stepfather.
But their luck runs out when Beau risks all at the Slasher Derby Championships. Shot on location in full sunlight, this is not a film for whiners, weepers, or weak-bladdered candy suckers.