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40% of our budget was crowdfunded via IndieGoGo.com
June 2nd, 2023
Passion Fruit: Nick's Story
UNRATED: Drug use, language, and brief horror violence
43 minutes | Drama, Horror, Thriller | Budget: $10,000
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Nick is filled with guilt; he wanders the outskirts of society when a local shop owner tells him to seek answers in the woods near town.
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Written, Directed, and Produced by Samuel Ashkenazy
Stars Lorenzo Kortright, Abby Gumpper, Sami Lemza, & Lee Simmons
2022
Passion Fruit
Passion Fruit is a feature length screenplay I wrote in the winter of 2021 | Drama, Thriller, Horror
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A group of college-age friends find what they suspect is the tree of life; their lust for the tree's powerful fruit exposes their own rotten cores.
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CURRENT AWARDS:
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Best Horror Screenplay - New York International Film Awards (NYIFA)
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Best Feature Screenplay - Los Angeles Film Awards (LAFA)
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[Exceptional Achievement] Best Writer - Multi-Dimension International Film Festival (MDIFF)
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[Exceptional Achievement] Best Unproduced Script - Multi-Dimension International Film Festival (MDIFF)
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Best Unproduced Script - Airflix Film Festival
I dream of making Passion Fruit a reality one day; our most recent film Nick's Story gives you a taste of what could be.
I self-produced this during my first year of college. A learning curve for us all, this was many of our first experiences on a semi-professional set. Despite it's amateur approach, we're all still very proud of what we accomplished.
January 3rd, 2019
Fear
UNRATED: Drug use, language, some frightening and intense scenes | 18 minutes | Horror, Thriller | Budget: $8,000
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Two clubgoers return home to experiment with a new street drug and are met with horrifying and violent effects.
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Written, Directed, and Produced by Samuel Ashkenazy
Stars: Gino Cruz, Danielle Pafundi​
Most recent work!
The most exciting part of filmmaking is working with the best and brightest people the world has to offer. Working freelance or producing my own content, here is a mostly-complete list of the last bunch of projects I've been a part of.
CV
(Fill-in) Sound Mixer/Boom - And They Were Roommates Web Series - Emily Rose Lyons (April, 2025)
Sound Mixer/Boom - Dishes Destiny Short Film - Jamie Granato (April, 2025)
Sound Mixer/Boom and AD - Omnivores Short Film - Joseph Fassiotto (April, 2025)
Sound Mixer/Boom - Ekdum Shot Short Film - Vijay Kamath (February, 2025)
Art PA - Three Six Five Music Video - Shinedown (January, 2025)
Singer/Songwriter - When It All Comes Crashing Down - Album - Produced by Protest Art, X (January, 2025)
Sound Mixer/Boom - Entrepreneurs Web Series - Abena Akyaa (December, 2024)
Producer - New Normal Official Music Video (July 22nd, 2024)
Podcast Host - Interviewed comedian Paula Poundstone for The Works Podcast (July 17th, 2024)
Singer/Songwriter - Protest Art - New Normal (July 4th, 2024)
Sound Mixer/Boom - Kingdom of Demons - Stephanie Cherng Short Film (May 27th - 28th 2024)
Podcast Host - Interviewed Dawn of the Dead (1978) star and filmmaker Gaylen Ross for The Works Podcast (April 22nd, 2024)
Sound Mixer/Boom - YGB - Joseph Fassiotto Short Film (April 6th - 7th 2024)
Podcast Host - Interviewed Director of the Huntington Cinema Arts Centre, Dylan Skolnick for The Works Podcast (March 7th, 2024)
AD and Sound Mixer/Boom - The Lingering - Brittany Diaz Short Film (October 14th - 16th 2023)
Arts & Entertainment Contributor - The Long Islander Newspaper - Jim Kelly (June 2023 - Present)
AD and Sound Mixer/Boom - Maulda - Cori Schimko (May 2023)