The film has finally made the festival circuit and is free to be viewed by all!
Here's the email received earlier today!
"Dear fliss,
Just in time for Halloween, after 40 festival screenings around the world, we’re releasing “The Bridge Partner” online for the world to see and premiering on Film Shortage! Thank you so much for supporting this project, I’m so grateful to you for making this venture possible.
One last request, online views and shares the first couple days are critical to amassing attention, so if you have a moment to watch the film or spread the word on social media, you can amplify the incredible impact you’ve already made by clicking below and sharing. Don't forget your headphones ; )
Film shortage link: http://filmshortage.com/shorts/the-bridge-partner/
Direct link: https://vimeo.com/188568367
Again, thank you so very much, and I’d love to hear what you think of it.
Gabriel Olson
http://www.thisisgabriel.com
www.thebridgepartner.com"
Supercool treat, not a trick!
Sure I had read the script when I first got it... but that was almost two years ago. There's been a lot of water flowing since then!
(smile)
It's good to have faces behind the paper characters.
Beth Grant is fabulous as Mattie Whalen, an aging housewife whose hobby is playing bridge badly. (You may best remember her from 1994's "Speed" - the older woman losing her mind on the bus-sized bomb.)
Sharon Lawrence is Olivia Korhonen, the European exotic who arrives late and is stuck with Mattie as her bridge partner for the day's game. (Interestingly, she played a counselor named Maddie - close, right? - on 1996's "Caroline in the City".)
So, that means the frowsy and self-deprecating marm was teamed up with the elegant and suave fashionista.
They lose, of course.
To everyone else, Olivia presents an image clad in silk gloves...
but she shows her talons to Mattie...
and that's where the fun begins.
Woohoo!
Miles Hankins has crafted a first-rate soundtrack to accompany this fine tale, building the tension and setting the tone very well.
I highly recommend this award-winning suspense-laden film!
Not quite fifteen minutes of fame...but at 13:34, it's very close!
(smile)
