Great Speeches From A Dying World

Linas Phillips — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

A medition on Homelessness featuring 10 of them performing famous speeches from history.
directed by Linas Phillips

Linas Phillips — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:59:00 +0000

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

Linas Phillips — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:58:00 +0000

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

Reggie Micahmor

Linas Phillips — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:53:00 +0000

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

Jean Rasmussan

Linas Phillips — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:51:00 +0000

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

Tim Turner

Linas Phillips — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:50:00 +0000

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

Gabriel Highbear

Linas Phillips — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:48:00 +0000

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

Mark Hogue

Linas Phillips — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:47:00 +0000

Mark performs Saint Francis' "Sermon To The Birds"

Mike Harmon

Linas Phillips — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:46:00 +0000

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

Deborah Payne

Linas Phillips — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:44:00 +0000

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

Tomey Smith

Linas Phillips — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:39:00 +0000

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

Jose Martinez

Linas Phillips — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:20:00 +0000

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

"Sarge", James Browers

Linas Phillips — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:03:00 +0000

Sarge performs Abraham Lincoln's "The Gettysburg Address"

Linas Phillips, director

Linas Phillips — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:49:00 +0000

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.
For more info go to
www.walkingtowerner.com
www.myspace.com/walkingtowerner