Tackling the topic of drug and alcohol addiction in movies can be tricky.
Loveland screenwriter, producer and director, R.W. Perkins, knew he wanted to do a film that focused on addiction, but not in the typical fashion previous films had addressed the topic.
“I am not an addict but it has been part of my life. My dad struggled with it, even to this day,” Perkins said. “I know it’s a genre that’s been pretty well covered, but I felt that I had something different to add to that.”
With addiction having such a wide-reaching effect, not only is the addict affected by the drug and/or alcohol abuse, friends, co-workers, bosses and family members — especially children of addicts —also experience the effects of abuse. So, rather than focusing on the effect addiction has on young children, or even the addict themselves, Perkins decided to look at how addiction can affect adult children.
“Most of the stories that I have seen delve into the addict and their experience, and that is also in our film as well, but I really wanted to get into the family aspect and how this massive character can take over,” he said. “You got your own life going on, even when you’re an adult.”
With that plan in mind, Perkins wrote the screenplay “Small Town Remedies.”
The movie is a dark comedy that looks at drug and alcohol abuse through the eyes of adult children of an addict. The film follows adult siblings Lita, played by Andrea Dratch, and Evan, played by Ty Sells, as they attempt to help their alcoholic mother, portrayed by Sally Knudsen, through a relapse.
“Presenting it in a dramatic comedy as opposed to a broad comedy, I don’t think we could have tackled this subject that way,” Perkins said. “It’s serious where it needs to be. During the screenings we have had, we’ve had people laughing so hard we couldn’t hear the next line. We are happy with the reactions we’ve gotten so far.”
Check out the movie trailer at https://vimeo.com/395783614
The all-Colorado cast also includes actors R.J. Wagner, Marc Brown, Brittany Mahoney, Jordyn Wagner, Keehnan Anderson, Art Razo, Erica Boston West and Jeff McGee.
Lea Marlene, artistic director and co-producer as well as owner of Lea Marlene Actors Studio in Denver, was thrilled to cast actors and actresses solely from the state.
“We saw everybody who submitted in Colorado and even some people from out of state,” Marlene said. “But we really wanted to make it a Colorado film.”
Unlike traditional feature films that can take months and even years to shoot, “Small Town Remedies” was filmed in just eight days.
“An eight-day schedule for a feature film is pretty ambitious, but I attribute a big part of our success to Randy and the meticulous planning he did on the script and our production schedule,” Andy Carrasco, cinematographer and executive producer said. “A main challenge I faced as the cinematographer was having to prioritize certain aspects of a production over others. For example, sometimes we wouldn’t have the time or extra hands on deck to set up lighting, so a lot of the movie uses natural or available light which at times isn’t ideal.”
The movie was also entirely filmed at various locations in Loveland, including Dark Heart Coffee Bar, The West End Lounge and a historic residence in downtown. The film is the first movie on IMBd to claim Loveland as a location for a film production.
“It was absolutely amazing filming in the historic town of Loveland. The Sweetheart City is crawling with talented artists and we are all very supportive of each other,” said Dratch, who is also an executive producer on the project. “The old homes in this area are gorgeous. I couldn’t think of a better ‘small town’ to shoot a movie in.”
In addition to being filmed in Colorado, the film features music from three Colorado-based bands — FaceMan from Denver, Peter Barton Fletcher from northern Colorado and Greeley’s Giants and Pilgrims, made up of husband and wife duo Tim and Betony Coons.
The decision to include bands from Colorado was a coincidence Perkins said. He knew that FaceMan and Peter Barton Fletcher were from the state, but he was unaware that Coons’ Giants and Pilgrims were as well, let alone less than 30 minutes from Loveland where the project was filmed.
“The director of ‘Small Town Remedies’ wrote me a couple months ago. He said ‘I had found you on Artlist and loved your work. So I licensed it for my new movie. Turns out we’re neighbors,’” Tim Coons said. “I love that Randy found and loved our songs and then was surprised we were local.”
The film is set to premiere to audiences during the Horsetooth International Film Festival at 9:15 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10 at the Holiday Twin Drive-In Theatre, 2206 S. Overland Trail, Fort Collins.
Day passes to the festival are $25 per person and can be purchased online at www.horsetoothfilmfestival.com.
For more information on “Small Town Remedies,” upcoming screenings and film trailers, go to www.smalltownremedies.com.
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