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Rainbow Around the Sun
76 minutes | 17 or older | 2008 | 
United States of America
Art / Cult / IndieFlix Official Selections / Musicals / Romance
The musical odyssey of a man finding himself by losing his mind.
SynopsisZachary Blasto is a hard-drinking but talented songwriter and performer. Zach suffers from an over-active imagination; Whenever he is faced with an unpleasant reality, he retreats into an elaborate fantasy world where music is king and Blasto wears the crown. At first this serves Zach well. In his fantasy world, he can be a vaudevillian entertainer or a boorish rock god. All his songs are hits, and all his jokes are funny. Little by little, however, disturbing reminders of real life seep in. His girlfriend has given up on his sad-sack ways. His job is hanging by a thin thread, and he drinks far too much to care. And, worst of all, he is haunted by images of a grizzled figure, who seems to be coming and going like a ghost. Is he haunting Zach? Or warning of things to come? Zach retreats further and further into the madness of his fantasy world, but even his own dreams begin to turn on him.
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Directed by
Kevin Ely
Beau Leland -
Written by
Kevin Ely
Matthew Alvin Brown -
Produced by
Cacky Poarch
Chris Salyer
Ira Schlezinger
Melissa Scaramucci
Kim Haywood
Matthew Alvin Brown
Kevin Ely
Beau Leland
Mark A. Stansberry - Rainbow Around the Sun Website
Beau Leland
Written by: Kevin Ely
Matthew Alvin Brown
Produced by: Cacky Poarch
Chris Salyer
Ira Schlezinger
Melissa Scaramucci
Kim Haywood
Matthew Alvin Brown
Kevin Ely
Beau Leland
Mark A. Stansberry
Cast
Zachary Blasto: Matthew Alvin BrownDebbie: Jamie Buxton
The Old Gray Man: Doug Van Liew
Cupcake: Rebecca McCauley
The Young Brown Man: Brain Stockton
Crew
Cinematographer: Alan NoveyEditor: Beau Leland
Production Designer: Rebecca McCauley
Assistant Director: Ty Dickson
Music: Matthew Alvin Brown
SXSW Film Festival -- Official Selection (Nominated)
Florida Film Festival -- Official Selection (Nominated)
Athens International Film Festival -- Opening Film (Nominated)
Temecula Valley International Film Festival -- Official Selection (Nominated)
Tallgrass Film Festival (Wichita, KS) -- Official Selection (Nominated)
Produced and filmed entirely in the state of Oklahoma...except the beach scene. That was Texas.
This film was an official selection to the 2007 Independent Feature Project's Narrative Rough Cut Lab. For more information about IFP, visit IFP.org.
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Director
Kevin ElyBeau Leland
