Short Films:
THE ACTIVIST – 2010
Written by Phillip Montgomery & Rudi Anna;
Directed by Phillip Montgomery;
Edited by Rudi Anna
**WINNER – BEST IN FEST – Los Angeles Shorts Film Festival, 2010
Synopsis: Michael remembers a time when he actually fought for the ideals he
believed in. Now, he doubts his ‘forward’ progress.
A SCENE FROM A STREET IN LA – 2012
Written by Rudi Anna & Phillip Montgomery
Directed by Phillip Montgomery
In Association with Anonymous Content
Numerous Film Festival Screenings
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Posts featuring written and visual content produced by Rudi Anna
Meet a few of the finest sailors in the world
By Rudi Anna BOSTON– It’s dawn in the Boston Harbor. Roseate sunlight hangs heavily behind stretching patchworks of dark clouds crossing a vast ocean sky. Thrumming duel-engines break the sea-scape serenity. A weathered-orange, 50-foot pilot boat called the Mystic zooms out toward the horizon, not to greet the rising sun, but to rendezvous with a […]
The Activist
What will you do after the march? The protest marches last weekend were millions of small steps in the right direction, but can only flow within preface to the organized tidal force that must follow. To march is to voice anger… but the aftermath of the march is to beckon forth this new, ferociously fresh […]
Countdown to a World War
Watch my short history series about what called down the dogs of war in Europe and the Balkans during 1914, the year WWI erupted. INTRO: PROLOGUE to a WORLD WAR: THE SPARK: .
Urban Astronomers Connect Community with Popscope
A pop-up event at the Boston Children’s Museum: By Rudi Anna 12/14/2016 Stepping out last Friday night from a bustling Boston Children’s Museum, Jesse, a curious 11-year-old from Roxbury, Massachusetts, spied something unexpected. A few feet away, more museum patrons assembled moments before stood at a telescope, looking up at the darkening night sky. “What […]
Turnt Jesus
Real Text Transcript from the Jefferson County, CO Sheriff’s Office A story. Told through text. The following is a released transcript of a 2016 text message conversation captured from the cell phone of 17-year-old Jerry Micaccio of Lakewood, Colorado. The lively bevy of messages conveys the build up of events which Jefferson County Police and […]
Alice + Uncas
By Rudi Anna Certain movies never end. Ever When reeling back through medleys of old memories, I often think about how intertwined many of them are between real life and the Pictures. I remember watching that two-hour serving of grandiose derring-do and romance that is the historical matinee, The Last of the Mohicans, for the […]
Planet Hunter
MIT Professor finds meaning in the search for a new Earth By Rudi Anna MASSACHUSETTS– The memory is vivid. She was 16 years old. It was one of the first times she’d been away from home overnight. She walked into an observatory almost by accident and was asked to look up. What she saw would […]
Boston police stops tell a story stealing away in shadows
By Rudi Anna The Field Investigation/Observation program, known as FIO for short, is a stop and frisk procedure conducted by the Boston Police Department (BPD). But various instances in recent years have revealed patterns of blatant racial profiling, particularly toward African-Americans, within the program’s field conduct. According to the FIO data released by the BPD in 2014, as many as 66,691 stop and […]
Indiana Jones and the Order of the Magi
Indiana Jones had to get his start somewhere. Okay, sure, there were The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, but I’ve written a script that presupposes the 1990s TV series never ever happened. Like ever. How does the movie begin? CHECK IT OUT .
The dark tale of a relationship coming to an end.
The dark tale of a relationship coming to an end. *TRAILER* (Finished film provided upon request) Starring: Constance Brenneman and Lea Coco. Directed by: Phillip Montgomery Written and Produced by: Rudi Anna & Phillip Montgomery Director of Photography: Ezra Migel READ THE SCRIPT HERE.