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Based on true events, Vicious follows two couples as they fight over love, art, and the ruthless lies only lovers can tell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52dae44de4b0826240a89ffc/f0ab7ebf-591b-4be4-81cf-c31c4cf6d74f/THE+ASSHOLE+HAD+IT+COMING.jpg Portfolio - The A**hole Had It Coming Texas during the 1980s isn’t a place to talk about sex, let alone an orgasm. But for Grace Palmer, and the employees of The Cougar Club Sex Shop, a good orgasm is the answer to all of life’s insults. After suffering through an abusive marriage, Grace spends her days providing underground sex-therapy to oppressed housewives and women on the mend. When the wife of an abusive cop shows up looking for help, Grace offers her protection; the likes of which will land them both in a world of trouble. With the Mayor on her case, a porn VHS on backorder, and a dead cop buried under an avalanche of debauchery, Grace can’t help but wonder: is good advice worth the price? STAGE PLAY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52dae44de4b0826240a89ffc/cdd5fe3c-c50c-4f3a-8667-2aec2baadc17/WLD_press_images8.jpg Portfolio - We Lack, Definition Definition matters, at least to those so desperately trying to find it. After years apart, six college friends gather in a lakeside cabin to mourn the sudden passing of their dear friend, Frankie. Here they will make peace with who they were, who they are, and who they’re each becoming. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52dae44de4b0826240a89ffc/1618948156045-HZ5NXSXEBNFCNLSQ5THU/Dream+of+Me+Stock+Image.jpg Portfolio - No Moon In Hell When Marilyn Dennison, a Vietnam nurse, agrees to go on a helicopter joyride over the jungle, she thinks she’s in for a reprieve from the endless pain of the med-vac hospital. But when the chopper is shot down over war ravaged land, she’s forced to go from nurse to soldier, as she races to save herself and the wounded pilot who holds the key to getting them both out alive. FEATURE FILM https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52dae44de4b0826240a89ffc/1581658546632-4CQXCB15XAPEJVZ28JQF/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-02-13%2Bat%2B9.30.02%2BPM.jpg Portfolio - Make Me The Tennessee (Short) In 1983, when the vengeful Kathy Morris attempts to poison the Tennessee cop who aided and abetted in the death of her sister, she gets cold feet. After all, the cop is her husband. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52dae44de4b0826240a89ffc/1579586163340-MA5QXYMTXKLVZQK95REY/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-01-19%2Bat%2B8.28.29%2BPM.jpg Portfolio - Everleigh Yours In 19th-century Chicago, sex and gambling go hand-in-hand. When ambitious sisters Ada and Minna Everleigh open an exclusive brothel in the heart of downtown, they’re blackmailed into placing a bet with the city’s Warden and most notorious criminal. If they lose, their club is forfeit and their reputations ruined. If they win, the wealthy men of Chicago and a life of prestige will be theirs for the taking. HOUR LONG - DRAMA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52dae44de4b0826240a89ffc/1579586406501-HFXBLYGE01I0E0XOF3Q7/7F82E27F-8F65-421B-B3A0-95802ECDAC78.jpg Portfolio - Organ Trail For Cincinnati’s leading heart surgeon, Joan Fox, irony is a dish best served in hell. When she learns her dying daughter won’t receive a donor heart in time to save her life, Joan murders a patient for his matching organ. This epic fall from moral grace catapults Joan into the black market of organ trading, where a body is worth more dead than alive, and a scalpel is more destructive than a gun. HOUR LONG - DRAMA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52dae44de4b0826240a89ffc/1595104091721-E8VR3M1LCTRY9I4APVD6/top-view-photo-of-pine-trees-3656989.jpg Portfolio - Make Me The Tennessee It’s 1983 and the women of Coppertown, Tennessee are used to being underestimated. But when one of their own is murdered by her police chief husband - and the rest of the force covers it up - these women will take justice into their own hands. Lives will be lost, loyalties tested, and marriages destroyed, but for these fed-up police wives, revenge is well worth the trouble. FEATURE FILM https://www.sashapasternak.com/vicious-1 daily 0.75 2025-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52dae44de4b0826240a89ffc/1579665548974-7JC646QVJMSGUUAWRKYQ/James+and+Loyd+Making+A+Movie.jpg Vicious - Artistic Statement Vicious is a film about the emotional and physical cost of taking ownership of one’s art. From 1973 to 1985 my parents lived in the Chelsea Hotel, directly above Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen. On the evening she tragically died, they were home and completely unaware of the terror happening one floor below them. When they told me this story, my mind couldn’t help but wonder: what pushes an artist to the edge of reason? In what scenario does a creative soul become willing to kill for their art? Vicious is a fictional exploration of these core questions, set in a scenario deeply personal to my family. Although my parents are not Jon and Nell, the world which surrounds these characters is deeply integral to my own personal history and the lives my parents led as struggling artists in 1970’s New York. This film is set almost entirely in one location: the Chelsea Hotel, which is as much a character as the characters themselves. The history of the Chelsea is built on the genius and insanity of the artists who once lived within its walls. It is my goal to see this film through to its ultimate completion from script to screen. I believe Vicious is a film audiences need, as it speaks to the darkest parts of the human conscience and forces its viewers to question their own moral limits. Society is currently surviving in a fear-based political and creative climate. Vicious tackles what happens when those who fight to win at any cost succeed, and what terror is left for those who lose. I think this film would benefit enormously from a collaborative environment, where artists from every field of cinema could contribute to the script’s evolution and eventual production. Vicious is a love letter to my parents, New York, the punk rock movement, and the tragic love of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen. 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