The one-shot feature film PERCIVAL’S BIG NIGHT is an official selection of The Newport Beach International Film Festival - Screening on April 27th and May 3rd at 6pm.

See the Trailer HERE

PERCIVAL’S BIG NIGHT is 87 minutes of real time in the life of Percival and Salvatore’s Brooklyn bedlam universe. The film unfolds in one single shot as the two roommates, neither of whom have much to show for their college degrees and creative minds, live listlessly waiting for something greater to begin. They’re stuck.

Things start to change when, in the same day, Percival loses his job and witnesses a hit-and-run. The experience jostles him into a new awareness of just how static his life is, and the need to DO something starts to grow – pushing him to challenge what he thinks he knows about modern relationships, self-fulfillment, New York, and what it means to be a part of the young creative class.

The film is a Howard Hawks screwball hipster comedy, but set in a world of instant electronica rather than one of slow-cooked, home-brewed, human here-ness. Yet, it appears that the point is still to make a connection. The need for connection is what the characters are driven by – that no matter how confusing and indefinable life may be, there is ease, energy and inspiration in the personal connections we discover and maintain, contrary to whatever fear we may have about initiating or relying on them. It is up to us to connect, and inspire others to connect as well.

One night, one room, one shot. Anything can happen.

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I am telling you! GO! Despite what may seem like your standard “underdog going after the unattainable prize”, this film holds more clout than I have heard it get credit for.

More on the theatrical side, with its small cast and intimate setting, Percival does so much within the 87 minutes to bring the audience along on a ride that hits as deep at Kenneth Lonnergan’s “This is Our Youth” - painting portraits of characters dealing with the dark abyss that is the undeniable truth of REAL adulthood.

The honest humanity that comes out when each character finally drops their social facade is so shocking a midst the witty, comfortable banter adds such a dynamic level. Once you realize that the character is no longer playing games, the seriousness is such a wash and so honest that it ends up being quite shocking; especially when each of the girls turn ugly.

Even if you don’t feel like this story is one for you, go for the sheer appreciation that this film is one continuous shot (again more theatrical to capture not cut and paste a performance), in this tiny room. The ACROBATICS that must have gone into the shooting of this are so beyond the imagination….mindblowing.

GO SEE IT