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Greetings!
Tune in Tuesday, May 24th at 7PM (PST), as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guests Djo Tunda Wa Munga the director of "VIVA RIVA!" and Rick Lancaster the director of "The Abduction of Zack Butterfield"
Center Stage with Mark Gordon airs Tuesdays at 7PM (PST) on KXLU Los Angeles, 88.9 FM Streaming "live" at kxlu.com
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"Viva Riva!"
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Riva is a small time operator who has just returned to his hometown of Kinshasa, Congo after a decade away with a major score: a fortune in hijacked gasoline. Wads of cash in hand and out for a good time, Riva is soon entranced by beautiful night club denizen Nora (gorgeous Paris-based actress Manie Malone in her screen debut), the kept woman of a local gangster. Into the mix comes an Angolan crime lord Cesar (New York-based African Academy Award winner Hoji Fortuna) relentlessly seeking the return of his stolen shipment of gasoline. Director Djo Tunda Wa Munga's Kinshasa is a seductively vibrant, lawless, fuel-starved sprawl of shantytowns, gated villas, bordellos and nightclubs and Riva is its perfect embodiment.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER
Djo Tunda Wa Munga was born and raised in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) where he spent his childhood. At the age of 10, he left for Belgium, and went on to study art, and later filmmaking at INSAS (Institut National Sup�rieur des Arts du spectacle et des techniques de diffusion) in Brussels.
During his studies he directed his first short films, some in the school program and others as an independent producer. He worked for a few years in Europe in the film industry and went back to the Democratic Republic of Congo to work on documentary projects for the BBC, ARTE and Danish TV, amongst others. He also directed a number of documentaries for the local market. He went on to create the first film production company in the DRC, Suka Productions! and is currently focusing his energies on building up the film business in the Congo up to now virtually non-existent, and where everything has yet to be invented. There are currently no movie theaters in Kinshasa.
Munga served as producer on Congo in Four Acts, a quartet of short films that exposed the distressing reality of every day life in the Congo.
VIVA RIVA! is Munga's first fiction feature film and the beginning of the New Wave of Congolese Cinema.
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The Abduction of Zack Butterfield
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A beautiful young woman who is a murderous sexual psychopath returns from combat as a mercenary in Iraq and abducts a 14 yr-old boy, holding him prisoner as a bizarre relationship develops.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER
Richard (Rick) Rainier Lancaster was born and raised in New York State. Rick is extremely well educated. He attended Harvard, Yale, NYU (Drama) and Cornell University where he graduated with honors with two Bachelors Degrees, and went on to earn a Masters Degree. Rick then attended Film Editors school in New York City, learned the craft and became a member of the Film Editors Union. After joining Metropolis Films to head up the Paris office, Rick decided Directing was his true passion. Rick told Metropolis' CEO Stephen Ryder of his decision. An expert on budgets and schedules, Rick was given the short film Ahmed to direct. The little 5 minute film garnered a lot of praise at Cannes that year and Rick was given his first feature film to direct, "The Abduction of Zack Butterfield," a Stephen Ryder script which Rick co-wrote. Filmed in Dutchess County, New York. The Abduction of Zack Butterfield stars Brett Helsham and T.J. Plunkett which will premiere at the Soho International Film Festival.
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About Center Stage with Mark Gordon
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Center Stage with Mark Gordon has featured award-winning actors, cutting edge directors, iconic musicians and innovative writers including Darren Aronofskyi, Jim Broadbent, Adrian Brody,Holly Hunter, Ben Kingsley, Benicio Del Toro, Gwyneth Paltrow, Haskell Wexler, Vittorio Storaro, Dr. Daniel Ellsberg, Denys Arcand, Bill Condon, Alex Gibney, Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck, Leon Gast, Paul Greengrass, Davis Guggenheim, Kevin Macdonald, Anthony Minghella, Errol Morris, Elliott Goldenthal, Hans Zimmer, Arthur Cohn, Saul Zaentz, Robert Moresco, Quentin Tarantino and Howard Zinn.
Center Stage with Mark Gordon airs Tuesdays at 7PM (PST) on KXLU Los Angeles, 88.9 FM and streaming "live" on kxlu.com.
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