Concrete
20min, RED Epic
Jacob, a self-medicated drug dealer, becomes alienated in his own world when he learns of his estranged brother’s death.
Director: Chelvendra Sathieaanandha
Writer: Chelvendra Sathieaanandha
Producer: Andy Nguyen, Mike De Caro
Co-Producer: Donato Di Giangregorio
Executive Producer: Hassan Javed
Director of Photography: Andy Nguyen
Editor: Chelvendra Sathieaanandha
Production Design: Laura Brown
Cast: David F. Passmore, Tara Eve Davies, Francesca Walters
Email: aanandha@sathfilms.com
About the Writer/Director
Chelvendra Sathieaanandha is an Australian filmmaker based in New York. He previously collaborated with Mike De Caro and Andy Nguyen on Somebody Talk to Me, a short directed by Chelvendra, produced by Mike and shot by Andy. He also co-wrote and edited a number of award-winning Columbia projects, including Forever in Hiatus, that received the best editing award at the Rhode Island Film Festival in 2012. Concrete was Chelvendra’s first time working in Australia, in his hometown Melbourne, since leaving there in 2008.
About the Producers
Mike De Caro is an Italian filmmaker based in New York City. His goal is to make films that combine entertainment and artistic vision. Concrete is Mike’s fifth collaboration with Chelvendra Sathieaanandha.
Andy Nguyen is the son of two Vietnamese “boat people” that escaped in 1975 when Communism fell over Vietnam. Andy was born and raised in Tampa, Florida, but spent his summers in Vietnam where his uncles were at the forefront of post Vietnam War cinema. During these summers, he played small roles on the screen until his uncles realized his acting skills weren’t up to par and they put him where he found his inspiration – behind the camera. Since then he has made films in Vietnam and in the US with his films screening all over the world and winning more than a dozen awards including the Jimmy Stewart Memorial Crystal Heart Award (2005), FAIF Most Promising Student Filmmaker Award (2005), and the Playboy/Bombay Sapphire Imaginative Filmmakers Spotlight Grand Prize (2012).
