Adrift in Manhattan
TFI Suppport
Tribeca All Access® 2004
Logline
An aging aesthete goes blind, a doctor takes stock of her childless marriage, and a young photographer runs from his past in three intersecting stories set along the 1/9 subway line in New York City.
Alfredo de Villa
Director
Alfredo’s first feature film, Washington Heights, received theatrical and video distribution. It premiered and won a Special Mention for acting and directing at the first TriBeCa Film Festival. Among other prizes, it also gathered the Audience Award for Best Narrative Film from the IFP/Los Angeles Film Festival, Best First Film in the Muestra Internacional de Cine (Dominican Republic), the Grand Prizes from the New York Latino Film Festival, the Austin Film Festival and the Cine Festival in San Antonio. It played in over 50 international and domestic film festivals. ¶Alfredo was nominated for an Open Palm Award from the 2003 IFP/ Gotham Awards.¶He also participated in the Sundance Filmmakers Lab with Angel (co-written with Nat Moss). Two of his short films, Joe’s Egg and Neto’s Run, received the Directors Guild of America Best Latino Director Award in 1995 and 1999. Both films won awards at domestic and international festivals. He received his M.F.A. from the Film Division of Columbia University.
Tom Donahue
Producer
Tom Donahue produced and edited Alfredo de Villa's feature debut, Washington Heights. He has produced and edited numerous award-winning features and documentaries that have appeared at such major film festivals as Sundance, Cannes, Berlin, Venice, San Sebastian and Tribeca and won over twenty awards. Most recent works include Hello He Lied (directed by American Splendor's Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer-Berman); the feature documentary, Naked World for HBO's America Undercover (the sequel to Naked States, also edited by Donahue and one of HBO's highest-rated docs); and (Winner of the 2001 prestigious Gotham Spirit Truer than Fiction Award). In 1999, he developed and co-executive produced the feature film,, starring Michael Pare. Currently, he is producing and co-directing the feature documentary, and producing the feature Tupperware in association with Crossroads Films.
Anura Idupuganti
Producer
Anura Idupuganti's experience in the film industry ranges from studio feature films and television to independent feature films, documentaries and commercials. Idupuganti most recently line produced the Vagina Monologues documentary, executive produced by Pat Michell and Steven Spielberg and featuring Eve Ensler, Rosie Perez, Salma Hayek and a highly acclaimed international cast. Other producing credits to Idupuganti's name include MK2 feature production of Apartment 5C, Showtime' s Popcorn Shrimp, written and directred by Christopher Walken (The Opportunist), starring ring rapper Master P and Ralph Maccio, and starring Amy Sedaris (Upright Citizen's Brigade). As a DGA assistant director, Idupuganti is producing the feature film Tupperware in association with Crossroads Films, the feature documentary Guest of Cindy Sherman, and the documentary Highway Courtesans.