Raw Impressions Presents Movie Musicals with Broadway Talent May 23-24

New York, NY: Raw Impressions, Inc. will produce six short films for the sixth installment of its RIPFest Film Festival. All films will be movie musicals and will be shown in New York on Monday May 23 & 24 at 8PM & 9:30PM at the Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Ave. at 2nd Street) and in LA on May 23 (only) at 7:30 & 10:00pm at Laemmle Monica 4.

RIPFest is a guerrilla filmmaking process wherein professional filmmakers who have never worked together are given sixteen days to collaborate on and create original ten-minute works from scratch. A theme will be announced to the writers (and press) on May 7. Raw Impressions, winner of the 2004 Larson Award for Artistic Vision in Music Theatre is the only non-profit company in the world to have a regular program designed to create Movie Musicals. For RIPFest #6, half the films will be created in NY the other half in LA. All films will be shown on both coasts at each screening.

Raw Impressions has attracted some of the industry's top talent looking for a creative challenge that the commercial world cannot provide. This year the participants include artists with careers in television, film and Broadway. Including: Composers: Jenny Giering (The Mistress Cycle); Writers: Marhsa Norman (Pulitzer Prize, Night, Mother), Matt Prage ("South Park", Brendan Milburn (Striking 12!, Old Globe, Theatreworks); Choreographers: Susan Marshall (MacArthur 'Genius' Award), Marliese Yearby (Rent); David Neuman (Big Dance Theatre); Directors: Christopher Herrman (Ghostlight –Tribecca Film Festival), Sean Mewshaw (Last Night starring Frances McDormand), Joe Locarro (Ragtime ); Performers: Denise Faye (American Pie 2, Chicago (film), Eliza Jane Schneider (South Park ), Marguerite MacIntyre (ABC's "The Days"); Kenna Ramsey (Rent); Joe Cassidy (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), Steven Hack (Grease), Dana Snyder (Aqua Teen Hunger Force (Mastershake), Jacques Smith (The Lion King) and many more to be announced. Participants are subject to change.

Raw Impression's RIPFest #6
Monday, May 23 & Tuesday, May 24 at 8 & 9:30PM in NYC
Anthology Film Archives is located at 32 Second Ave. @ 2nd St.

Monday, May 23 at 7:30 & 10:00pm
Laemmle Monica 4 Theatre is located at 1332 2nd Street, Santa Monica, CA
Tickets are $10 and available at www.smarttix.com or by phone (212) 868-4444.