Enter Hero's world.
"A short film that will
make you think"
- Brian Morton. Rouge Cinema
"Stylistic and gritty ... Creepy as hell"
- Dan Quaile. Film Under 5
"[an] unheralded new cult contender"
- Eric Henderson. WCCO @ The Movies
"Danny August Mason's acting chops
have become something extraordinary"
- Dan Quaile. Film Under 5
"a one-two punch of sex, violence,
and pitch-black humor"
- Colleen Powers. The A.V. Club, Twin Cities
"A head trip doused liberally in blood
and sex, makes the most of the Twin
Cities" vaguely Cronenbergian, 49th
Parallel sort of metropolitan sophistication"
- Eric Henderson. WCCO @ The Movies
"...twisted graphic insanity"
- The Jaded Viewer
"Definitely one of the best shorts I've
stumbled on this year"
- Dan Quaile. Film Under 5
"Skirts the edge of vanguard horror"
- Eric Henderson. WCCO @ The Movies
"...has its flaws..."
-Ezra Stead. Movies I Didn't Get
"A killer screenplay"
- Dan Quaile. Film Under 5
Taking his film degree, passion and experience to a whole new level, Danny Mason has plans to not only work on major motion pictues to inspire other actors and to tell stories to an audience for all eternity but to also warp the pollution within the film making industry. To take things out of the studio, onto the streets and to give an actor a chance to challenge his creativity.
Rachel has appeared in numerous independent features including Terror Overload, Strip Club Slasher, and Cave Women on Mars. She wrote, directed, and starred in Why Am I in a Box? which has already won seven Creative Spirit Awards and has distribution. Rachel also runs Silent-But-Deadly Productions, an all-female production company.
Matthew Feeney has been in several hundred stage shows, including appearances with Monty Python's Eric Idle and country music legend Sherwin Linton and his most recent (and favorite) role of Fagin in Oliver. He has also appeared in hundreds of feature films and shorts, including Trekkies 2, Factotum, Wedding Photo, Almelund, Phasma Ex Machina, and The Hula King.
Noah has been making good time movies with friends since as long as he can remember. Grinning Faces marks his first venture into professional cinema, which he wrote, directed, produced and edited. When he isn't making movies or writing screenplays, he is busy with his two children and running his independent pizza shop, Eden Pizza.
Adam executively produced, produced, co-edited and helped out in nearly every aspect of Grinning Faces. He even had a small role as a waiter. When he isn't helping devise sick and twisted cinema, he works worked in the financial services industy as an actuary.
James is an independent filmmaker currently based in the Twin Cities. The City was his first feature, which he directed and co-wrote. For Grinning Faces he handled the camera, co-produced, and assisted in casting.
Grinning Faces premiered on October 28th at the iconic Riverview Theater in south Minneapolis.
Photography by Dustin Braun. View the entire gallery here.
Grinning Faces was shot in St. Paul and Minneapolis in the Spring of 2010
Dolla Dolla bills y'all
Grinning Faces was produced by Lando System Productions
Contact us via email at producer@landosystem.org

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