If you missed the premiere in June, you have another chance to catch Adriano Ferreri’s debut feature film E.M.P. 333 Days when it screens at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 25th at the Market Hall Performing Arts Centre in downtown Peterborough.
Adriano will then be taking his film to the United States, where it will screen at the 12th annual Rockport Film Festival (in Rockport, on the east coast of Texas near San Antonio) on Saturday, November 3rd and then at the SNOB (Somewhat North of Boston) Film Festival in Concord, New Hampshire, on Saturday, November 10th.
A barber by day in Bridgenorth, Adriano spent three years making the film, which was shot entirely in the Kawarthas and features local actors.
The lead role of Niamh is played by Adriano’s teenaged daughter Rosa Ferreri, in her first feature film role. Other local actors appearing in the film include Liam Davidson (best known for his work at 4th Line Theatre in Millbrook) as William, Martin Saunders as John, Derek Bell as Craig, Cheryl Jan Ellis as Grandma, and Dan Smith as Zain.
E.M.P. 333 Days is an 83-minute thriller about what happens to introverted 11-year-old Niamh (Rosa Ferreri) after an electromagnetic pulse (E.M.P.) weapon fries all electrical devices, returning North America to pre-industrial conditions and sending it into anarchy. Niamh must fend and fight for herself while trying to find her father John (Martin Saunders).
Tickets for the Market Hall screening are $13 general admission, and are available in person at the box office at 140 Charlotte Street, by phone at 705-749-1146, or online at markethall.org.
