Knives
15min, 35mm
A curious shopping cart collector investigates the suspicious owner of knife-sharpening truck after a string of brutal murders.
Director: Aaron David DeFazio
Writers: T. Sardoni, Aaron David DeFazio
Producer: Larissa Rhodes
Co-Producers: Daniella Kahane, emma Wang
Director of Photography: Michael Rossetti
Editor: Filip Kasperaszek
Composer: Mark Crawford
Production Designers: Jenna Josepher, Chloe Reisen
Cast: Peter Friedman, Marc Menchaca, Paul Castro Jr. Chloe Levine
Email: larissa.rhodes@gmail.com,
Phone: 303-917-1027,
Website: https://www.facebook.com/KnivesTheFilm
About the Writer/Director
Aaron David DeFazio is a New York City-based filmmaker pursuing a Master of Fine Arts degree in Directing at Columbia University. Inspired by watching Raiders of the Lost Ark in bed through the eyepiece of his VHS camcorder, his film career began at a Hollywood Video in Northern New Jersey. After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College, he gained experience in varying production positions. His short form directorial credits include Interpose (Provincetown Film Festival 2012) and Top Floor, which premiered at SXSW 2013 in the Narrative Shorts Competition and was featured as a Vimeo Staff Pick and reviewed on Short of the Week.
About the Producer
Larissa Rhodes is an independent filmmaker who works in both the documentary and narrative worlds. Previously, she earned a BFA & BA from the University of Colorado in Film Studies and International Spanish for the Professions. She has worked on documentaries and narratives including the feature documentary, Chasing Ice, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival. Following the premiere, it captured 29 festival awards throughout the U.S. and Europe and was invited to screen at the United Nations and in Congress. It went on to receive an Academy Award® nomination for Best Original Song. In the Spring of 2013, she spent 4 months producing a documentary while circumnavigating the world on a ship following 6 innovators to 13 countries as they attempted to use their technologies to help solve social and environmental problems. In addition, she had the opportunity to film experts from the Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu to the inventor of the Google Glass. The film is now currently in post-production. Larissa produced three seasons of episodes about the entrepreneur accelerator The Unreasonable Institute, one of which was published on Fast Company and another that screened through the United Nations to over 80 countries worldwide. In 2009, working under an academy award nominated documentarian in Bolivia, she directed and produced a short documentary about the world’s largest known lithium deposit.
