Linas Phillips (director of "Walking To Werner") set out to tell the stories of 12 homeless people living in seattle. He asked each of them to learn a historical speech that somehow related to their lives. Tomey Smith, a man living with Aids who is struggling to stay alive and off drugs, performs John Donne's, "No Man Is An Island" in a row boat with the city he feels trapped in looming in the distance.
(in postproduction, to premiere in 2008)

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Ronald Johnson

Ron performs an anonymous Indian's "A Pledge Of Support" to the colonialists

Reggie Micahmor

Reggie perform's Jesus Christ's "Sermon On The Mount"

Jean Rasmussan

Jean performs John F. kennedy's "Ask Not What Your Country Can Do"

Tim Turner

Tim performs Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have A Dream"

Gabriel Highbear

Gabriel performs Chief Joseph's "I Will Fight No More Forever"

Mark Hogue

Mark performs Saint Francis' "Sermon To The Birds"

Mike Harmon

Mike performs Bobby Kennedy's "A Ripple Of Hope"

Deborah Payne

Deborah performs Sojourner Truth's "Aint I a woman?"

Tomey Smith

Tomey performs John Donne's "No man is an Island" or "For whom the bell tolls."

Jose Martinez

Jose performs William Shakespeare's Hamlet's "To Be Or Not To Be"

"Sarge", James Browers

Sarge performs Abraham Lincoln's "The Gettysburg Address"

Linas Phillips, director

Linas studied acting at NYU's experimental Theatre Wing. In NYC he performed as a comedian and created experiemental theatre peices while working with special needs children by day. He began making short comedic videos with the kids he was babysitting and then soon started making films full time. His first full length film, WALKING TO WERNER, won the Special Jury Prize at the Seattle Int'l Film Festival '06 and landed Linas in Fillmaker Magazine's 2006 list of 25 New Faces of Independent Film. GREAT SPEECHES FROM DYING WORLD will be Linas' 2nd feature length film. WALKING TO WERNER is currently touring the country through the summer and fall of '07.
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