Director Susan Seidelman's MUSICAL CHAIRS Free Film Stream
Happy New Year everyone! Apologies for the lack of activity/posts these couple of weeks as I had been on Christmas vacation. I know some of you probably are or just getting settled back at home.
I want to share with you this Free Online Stream of Critically Acclaimed Film, Musical Chairs Directed by Susan Seidelma.
MUSICAL CHAIRS, the latest film from renowned director Susan Seidelman (Desperately Seeking Susan), is available for a free limited-time stream this Holiday Season, starting today, December 17th - December 31st. The film's producer, Janet Carrus, decided to offer the free stream as a unique way to give back this Holiday Season - by spreading the film's inspiring messages to a wider online audience who may have missed the film in theatres this year. Watch the film MUSICAL CHAIRS, here: http://bit.ly/MusicalChairsStream
Carrus decided to stream the film online during this short window because she feels so strongly about the film's message reaching those who may have missed it in theatres earlier this year. Carrus hopes that gifting her film will help spread the important themes discussed in the film - acceptance and embracing physical, cultural, and gender diversity - to a new audience during the holiday season.
A unique blend of dance, drama, and romance, the film stars newcomers Leah Pipes and E.J. Bonilla as a pair of unlikely lovers in contemporary New York who must face a number of challenges, both separately and together, before finding one another--and themselves. Also starring Tony-winner Priscilla Lopez, Jaime Tirelli, Laverne Cox, Morgan Spector, Auti Angel, Jerome Preston Bates, Nelson R. Landrieu, and Angelic Zambrana, MUSICAL CHAIRS was produced by Janet Carrus and Joey Dedio.
Set against the exciting backdrop of competitive ballroom dancing, MUSICAL CHAIRS is about Armando (Bonilla) a Bronx-bred Latino who aspires to be a dancer but whose only way in is as a handyman at a Manhattan dance studio, and Mia (Pipes), an Upper East Side princess who is the studio's star performer. Though worlds apart, their shared passion for dance promises to bring them together until a tragic accident changes Mia's life forever, and she finds herself wheelchair-bound at a rehab facility, with her dreams of a dance career shattered. Fortunately, Armando has enough dreams for both of them and, when he hears about a wheelchair ballroom dance competition that will soon be held in NY, he sees a way to return something to Mia that she thinks is lost forever. At first she is reluctant--wheelchair dancing, though highly popular overseas, is something she never even knew existed. But, with the help of several other residents at the rehab center, Armando organizes an intense training program that will bring them all center stage and in the spotlight. The prize is irrelevant; what they really stand to win back is their zest for life.
It was producer Carrus's, long active in charities benefitting the disabled, and herself an ardent ballroom dance enthusiast, who first had the idea of building a film around the phenomenon of wheelchair ballroom dancing, an activity long popular in Europe and Asia, but which is only now developing a wider following in the United States.
About the film, which features both disabled and able-bodied performers in its rousing dance scenes, Carrus says, "Susan has succeeded in conveying the struggles we all face, both able-bodied and disabled, making our way, whether through life or on the dance floor. She has a real talent for embracing people in all their diversity and making them real, believable, and acceptable."
I want to share with you this Free Online Stream of Critically Acclaimed Film, Musical Chairs Directed by Susan Seidelma.
MUSICAL CHAIRS, the latest film from renowned director Susan Seidelman (Desperately Seeking Susan), is available for a free limited-time stream this Holiday Season, starting today, December 17th - December 31st. The film's producer, Janet Carrus, decided to offer the free stream as a unique way to give back this Holiday Season - by spreading the film's inspiring messages to a wider online audience who may have missed the film in theatres this year. Watch the film MUSICAL CHAIRS, here: http://bit.ly/MusicalChairsStreamCarrus decided to stream the film online during this short window because she feels so strongly about the film's message reaching those who may have missed it in theatres earlier this year. Carrus hopes that gifting her film will help spread the important themes discussed in the film - acceptance and embracing physical, cultural, and gender diversity - to a new audience during the holiday season.
A unique blend of dance, drama, and romance, the film stars newcomers Leah Pipes and E.J. Bonilla as a pair of unlikely lovers in contemporary New York who must face a number of challenges, both separately and together, before finding one another--and themselves. Also starring Tony-winner Priscilla Lopez, Jaime Tirelli, Laverne Cox, Morgan Spector, Auti Angel, Jerome Preston Bates, Nelson R. Landrieu, and Angelic Zambrana, MUSICAL CHAIRS was produced by Janet Carrus and Joey Dedio.
Set against the exciting backdrop of competitive ballroom dancing, MUSICAL CHAIRS is about Armando (Bonilla) a Bronx-bred Latino who aspires to be a dancer but whose only way in is as a handyman at a Manhattan dance studio, and Mia (Pipes), an Upper East Side princess who is the studio's star performer. Though worlds apart, their shared passion for dance promises to bring them together until a tragic accident changes Mia's life forever, and she finds herself wheelchair-bound at a rehab facility, with her dreams of a dance career shattered. Fortunately, Armando has enough dreams for both of them and, when he hears about a wheelchair ballroom dance competition that will soon be held in NY, he sees a way to return something to Mia that she thinks is lost forever. At first she is reluctant--wheelchair dancing, though highly popular overseas, is something she never even knew existed. But, with the help of several other residents at the rehab center, Armando organizes an intense training program that will bring them all center stage and in the spotlight. The prize is irrelevant; what they really stand to win back is their zest for life.
It was producer Carrus's, long active in charities benefitting the disabled, and herself an ardent ballroom dance enthusiast, who first had the idea of building a film around the phenomenon of wheelchair ballroom dancing, an activity long popular in Europe and Asia, but which is only now developing a wider following in the United States.
About the film, which features both disabled and able-bodied performers in its rousing dance scenes, Carrus says, "Susan has succeeded in conveying the struggles we all face, both able-bodied and disabled, making our way, whether through life or on the dance floor. She has a real talent for embracing people in all their diversity and making them real, believable, and acceptable."
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