Mystery Box Media Announces New Avant Garde Film Production Skin: Plastic Surgery Can Be Addictive!

Mystery Box Media Announces New Avant Garde Film Production Skin: Plastic Surgery Can Be Addictive!

CHICAGO, July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- CELEBRATE the successful completion of "Widow's Fix" and help LAUNCH "Skin," the next Mystery Box Media production, with producer Daniel Cook, director Giovanni Muniz, writer Francesca Peppiatt and cinematographer Alaric Rocha.

Who: Mystery Box Media

What: Benefit Party; screening of short films made by Daniel Cook,
Giovanni Muniz and Alaric Rocha; launch of new production

When: 7:00 PM -- Friday, August 1, 2008

Where: John Hancock Building
175 E. Delaware Place
Party Room on 44th Floor

Why: Mystery Box Media is changing the paradigm for film production in
Chicago. "Widow's Fix" was nominated for 6 awards and won Best
Director by The 48 Hour Film Project. "Skin" promises to be the
next "big thing."

MEDIA are invited to cover the event

Financial Angels are invited to attend for ticket prices ranging from $125
(Standard Entry) to $2000 (Producer's Circle)

ABOUT THE 48 HOUR FILM PROJECT:

A company committed to producing cutting-edge films in Chicago: "Three original films by 2010. A feature by 2012. And if that doesn't happen, we have a suicide pact. We're all creative, experienced, award-winning, fun loving, technically proficient people doing what we love and loving what we do. We embrace the highest production values. We want to be relevant and quirky."

ABOUT THE FILM: Skin

"Skin" exposes the audience to their denial of impermanence. It probes at the horrifyingly subtle itch we call death and reveals the temporary nature of the lives we lead. Shooting begins August 20 throughout Chicago.

ABOUT THE FOUNDER/PRODUCER: Daniel J. Cook

Cook combines youthful innovation and energy with years of behind-the-scenes experience. From Warner Brothers' Batman: The Dark Knight to the Chicago Ballet to the Crown Fountain at Millennium Park, Cook has put his sweat behind more than 25 of Chicago's most noted creative works. His technical direction has won praise from IndieWire as surpassing "In quality almost any competition film from SUNDANCE this year." Cook recently won Best Director Award for his short film "Widows Fix" in the 48 Hour Film Project competition. In the theatrical community, Cook's technical direction and design has brought Chicago Reader Critic's Picks to One Theater Company's "Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story," Theater Wit's "Thom Pain (based on nothing)" (Jeff Committee Recommended), Second City's "The Chair," Strawdog Theater Company's "Impossible Marriage" and "A Lie of the Mind," both Jeff Committee Recommended. Previous arts-administration work includes co-founder, board member and treasurer of the Echoes of Chicago Artists' Collective.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: Giovanni Muniz

After growing up in Chicago, Giovanni ran away to New York to chase a dream or two. Once there, he decided to attend the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. Currently in the final year of his BFA in advertising and film, he plans to continue his education with an MFA in creative writing. After three years in development, 2008 saw Giovanni's directorial debut, "Craigslist," under the apprenticeship of the world-renowned Bob Giraldi. When he's not busy in the ad agency and film studio world, he enjoys photographing small music venues and designing graphics for local theatre companies.

ABOUT THE SCREENWRITER: Francesca Peppiatt

Francesca Peppiatt is a writer and performer who lives in Chicago. She has received Emmy Award nominations for her writing on "Country Notes," an entertainment news magazine on TNN and "Funniest Person In Chicago" on the WGN-TV Morning Show. She has also received the Houston International Film Festival Silver Award for Writing. Her extensive television work includes segment producer and writing assignments for TV icons Dick Clark, Love Connection, and Hee Haw. She has appeared on The Paula Poundstone Show with Paula and Lily Tomlin. Peppiatt trained with Second City in Santa Monica under Larry Coven and Del Close. She has performed at historic venues including Los Angeles' Comedy Store. In Chicago, Peppiatt performed in "Tony'n'Tina's Wedding," "Lust'n'Rust: The Trailer Park Musical" and numerous other productions. She is the managing director of Stockyards Theatre Project, a playwright, actor and author of three books.

ABOUT THE CINEMATOGRAPHER: Alaric Rocha

Alaric Rocha was the winner of Best Documentary in the Twin Cities Black Film Festival for "My Joy, My Tears, My Hair," 2006. He also won 1st Place, NEAFCS National Award for his "Early Childhood Training Video." He graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor's degree in music from Lawrence University. As a writer, Alaric is interested in the subjects of loneliness, isolation and separation, themes in all of his work so far, whether it be a comedy, horror, drama or music video.

CONTACT:
Mystery Box Media
Daniel J. Cook -- 773.370.2314

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Source: Mystery Box Media

CONTACT: Daniel J. Cook of Mystery Box Media, +1-773-370-2314

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