"Behind Closed Doors"
A
The Acting Syndicate
Production

Directed by Eddie Smith
Produced By Dan Heinrich & Landon Salyer

Behind Closed Doors is a political drama centering on the deliberations of a group of 12 individuals sequestered for jury duty on a high profile murder case.

The Defendant is an affluent professor, political campaign advisor and rising pillar of the community. Ethical, political, social, topical and racial discourse infuse the deliberation as personal bias, personalities and genders issues complicate an already complex case.

Set against the backdrop of the crime scene investigation, courtroom testimony, the sequestered juror's hotel rooms, the crime itself and the media's take on unfolding events, Behind Closed Doors paints a muddied, complicated picture of justice in America where the truth takes a back seat to the verdict.

Behind Closed Doors is a partially improvised script in which the actors themselves, thought provided with detailed evidence, testimony, and background data, are not privy to the truth of the crimes events. Their verdict is truly their own.

“White Rooms”
Written By Ryan Loetscher
Story By Ryan Loetscher and Landon Salyer
TRT: 1hr 50min
“Losing yourself is only the beginning”

Plot: Miles is a stand up guy, college student with big dreams and on a fast track to making them a reality when a sudden and intense psychotic episode brings his life to a crashing halt. Awake for 7 straight days and unable to turn off his racing mind, Miles unravels while his best friend and father race to get him safely home
            Set during Miles’ incarceration at a Mental Health facility, the tale of his harrowing road trip is slowly revealed while he, with the help of a cast of tragic an comic characters, struggles to piece together what happened to the man he was and define the man he will become when leaves the cocoon of the hospital.
            White Rooms is about being “normal” and about defining life when you can’t trust reality. It explores mental illness in a real, accurate and honest way without being about mental illness.
Life, love and sense of self… out of context.

Other current projects:

“AIDS”  - Assist. Director/Producer
Atrium Cinematics, Dir. Eddie Smith, Music Video for Hip-Hop Artist Choir Boy

“The Crossing” - Assist. Director/Producer
Atrium Cinematics, Dir. Eddie Smith, Short narrative film, currently in preproduction. This is the compainion peice to Man II Man