The Silver Screen Project announces THE WATCHTOWER - THE MOTION PICTURE

The Watchtower, a film based on the play by Steve Silver, will have an exclusive preview on Friday, September 23 at 7:30 p.m. at The Magno Screening Room, 729 Seventh Avenue in NYC. Contact Jay Michaels at JMae.events@gmail.com for reservations.

Actor and playwright Steve Silver, along with a team of directors, producers, and writers, has begun a theatrical and cinematic journey called the Silver Screen Project. Mr. Silver, along with David Sharp, Laurie Rae Waugh, and Jay Michaels to name a few, head a team dedicated to committing off-off Broadway plays to film, thus preserving independent works that usually vanish all too quickly.

Beginning this is Mr. Silver's play, The Watchtower.

Receiving acclaim during its initial run at one of the original theatres associated with the famed off-off Broadway movement, the American Theater of Actors (ATA), Mr. Silver and his colleagues did not want it to just end.

The odyssey of fundraising, pre-production, shooting, and editing yielded a high-quality film presentation of Mr. Silver's gritty and unapologetic tale of the underbelly of Hell's Kitchen and what it took to survive there. Many of the original stage cast appear in the film.

"I've seen some amazing work and now they're gone," exclaimed Mr. Silver, a prolific playwright, "I hope this is the jumping off point for countless dreams to be realized and messages brought to posterity."

David Sharp, a stage and film journeyman in his own right - and member of the cast of The Watchtower - shared Mr. Silver's excitement with a simple phrase, "if we get the right people behind us... the possibilities are endless."

Mr. Silver is already in pre-production for a film version of the play, Mirrors, which recently ended a successful run at the ATA.

Photo: A scene from THE WATCHTOWER