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Library
A list of Sam's productions, accomplishments, and written works yet to be produced.
New!
PROTEST ART
"New Normal"
Out July 4th, 2024
Genre: Rage/Rave
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.
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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​