Scharfmanproductions

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Scharfman Productions and Relapse Records teamed up for this music video for the Providence, RI based metal band HOWL and their single "Heavenless". The video was written, directed, produced, edited and jib arm operated in house by Charlie and Alex.

Starring HOWL

Directed & co-edited by Charlie Scharfman
Produced & co-edited by Alex Scharfman

Director of Photography: Bernard J. Hunt
Special FX and Makeup: Damien Leone
Production Designer: Jin Gilbert
Action Director: Drew Leary
Costume Designer: Sydelle Gonias

1st AD: Shauna Jaeger Kartt
Production Manager: Steve Kartt
B Camera Operator: Chris Cafaro
1st AC: Julia Pasternak
Jib Arm Operators: Charlie & Alex Scharfman
2nd AC: Steve Julien
Colorist: Vlad Kucherov

Stunts: Neimah Djourabchi, Brian Morvant
Gaffer: Jesse Skogh
Grips: Brian Yankou, Derek Aspenberger
Nitrogen FX provided by Froze Innovations
FX Asst: Gary Lo Savio
Art Asst: Dan Kenkel
PAs: Clayton Spencer, Jedglen Sandoval, Harry Joseph, Andrew Adams

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Playback

While digging into their town's infamous past, a group of high school students unwittingly unlock an even darker secret. Now, an evil spirit has been awakened and will stop at nothing to find his true heir.

Starring Christian Slater, Ambyr Childers, Toby Hemingway, Jonathan Keltz, Jennifer Missoni, Daryl "Chill" Mitchell, Johnny Pacar, and Alessandra Torresani.

Directed by Michael A. Nickles

Produced by Bennett Robbins Productions.

Charlie & Alex joined the film in preproduction in spring 2010 as Associate Producers and stayed on through production in Grand Rapids, MI, where they shot additional footage and produced the film's EPK.

Playback will be distributed theatrically by Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, on March 9, 2012, following its VOD distribution, starting on February 3.

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Director's Reel

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Date Night

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Web version of a commercial made for a New York City real estate company's TaxiTV advertising campaign.

Start your next New York apartment search at AptsNY.com and cut out the broker fee.

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Welcome Home

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Web version of a commercial made for a New York City real estate company's TaxiTV advertising campaign.

Start your next New York apartment search at AptsNY.com and cut out the broker fee.

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Moving In

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Web version of a commercial made for a New York City real estate company's TaxiTV advertising campaign.

Start your next New York apartment search at AptsNY.com and cut out the broker fee.

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The Romantics

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A man and woman have a dispute in his apartment.

WARNING: Graphic Violence

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Move for ALS - Trailer

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A documentary about Project ALS, a stem cell lab researching a cure for ALS (or Lou Gehrig's disease), and Move for ALS, a campaign focused on two young men bicycling across America to raise funds for the lab. This trailer was used for promotions and aired on SportsNet New York and in Citi Field during a Mets' game.

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Passing Thru

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3 paths collide when a boy and his father stumble into a complex gas station hold up.

Official Selection to the 2010 Action on Film International Film Festival, 2010 Poppy Jasper Film Festival and 2011 Big Island Film Festival.

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Still Life: a film about Tony Judt

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A short documentary about acclaimed historian, Orwell Award recipient, and Professor Tony Judt, who was diagnosed with ALS, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease. The film is currently helping to raise funds for Project ALS, a stem cell research lab.

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The Heritage

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A deceased superhero's family learns that the vigilante patriarch's life insurance policy doesn't cover his crime fighting adventures.

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Hydrive Energy Extended

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Here is the extended web commercial we made for Hydrive Energy Drinks. Be sure to take a look at the one minute cut and to check out their products at HydriveEnergy.com.

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Hydrive Energy 1 Minute Clip

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Here is the 1 minute web commercial we made for Hydrive Energy Drinks. Be sure to take a look at the extended cut and to check out their products at HydriveEnergy.com.

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Freedom Riders Educational Film Series

Alex and Charlie shot an educational documentary film series about the 50th anniversary and reunion of the Mississippi Freedom Riders, a grassroots campaign that sparked a great deal of Civil Rights activism in the south. Their reunion conference lasted 5 days in Jackson, Mississippi and included panels and discussions with local activists and politicians. Students from across the country, such as the charter school students in East Harlem that Alex and Charlie followed, traveled to Jackson to take part in the discussions and learn from these Civil Rights leaders as part of a concurrent youth summit aimed at social change.

The project has received a generous grant from the Ford Foundation for its completion and distribution and is currently in post-production.

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Keep The Lights On

Synposis: It's 1997 and New York City is in a state of intense flux when documentary filmmaker Erik Rothman (Thure Lindhardt) first meets Paul Lucy (Zachary Booth), a handsome but closeted lawyer in the publishing field. What begins as a highly charged first encounter soon becomes something much more, and a relationship quickly develops. As the two men start building a home and life together, each continues to privately battle their own compulsions and addictions. A film about sex, friendship, intimacy and most of all, love, Keep the Lights On takes an honest look at the nature of relationships in our times.

Directed by Ira Sachs (2005 Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning Forty Shades of Blue, Married Life, The Delta).

Produced by Lucas Joaquin & Marie Therese Guirgis

Alex served as associate producer and location manager for Keep the Lights On, which will make its world premiere in the U.S. Dramatic competition at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and its European premiere in the Panorama Programme at the 2012 Berlin International Film Festival.