Septien is an independent film written and directed by Michael Tully, starring Rachel Korine, Brian Kotzur and Robert Longstreet. Eighteen years after disappearing without a trace, Cornelius Rawlings (The Athlete) returns to his family’s farm. While his parents are long deceased, Cornelius’s brothers Ezra (The Matriarch) and Amos (The Artist) continue to live in isolation on this old, forgotten land. Wilbur, their farmhand, sleeps in a tractor tire out back. One day, the toilet breaks. A plumber is called. That man, Red ‘Rooster’ Rippington, shares his bed with a pretty young girl named Savannah. He also happens to be a figure from Cornelius and Amos’s past. It will take the efforts of a mysterious drifter to smother the Rawlings Brothers’ demons once and for all.
SXSW SCREENINGS in Austin, Texas next week include:
Monday, March 14th at 4:15pm – Alamo Lamar A
Friday, March 18th at 10:00pm – Rollins Theatre
Saturday, March 19th at 4:00pm – Alamo Ritz 2
About Michael Tully: after his directorial debut, COCAINE ANGEL, world premiered at the 2006 International Film Festival Rotterdam, Michael Tully was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. His follow-up, the documentary SILVER JEW, world premiered at the 2007 South By Southwest Film Festival, and is now available on DVD through legendary independent music label Drag City. Currently, he is the head writer/editor of HammerToNail.com, a website devoted to championing ambitious cinema. He played all of his own sports in SEPTIEN and lives on Tennis Court in Brooklyn, NY.
About Robert Longstreet: an actor, editor and producer, Robert Longstreet began his career by making Super 8 films at the age of nine. Eleven years later, he moved to NYC to study with Uta Hagan. After acting in Off- and Off-Off Broadway plays in the late ‘80s and on TV in the early ’90s, he branched out into feature films. His performance in Onur Tukel’s DING-A-LING-LESS (still Robert’s favorite) led to working with David Gordon Green on three films—UNDERTOW, PINEAPPLE EXPRESS, and the Green produced, Craig Zobel directed GREAT WORLD OF SOUND. GWS and Zack Godshall’s LOW AND BEHOLD both world-premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. This year, Robert is featured in four 2011 Sundance Film Festival world premieres: Jeff Nichols’ TAKE SHELTER, Calvin Reeder’s THE OREGONIAN, Michael Tully’s SEPTIEN and Todd Rohal’s THE CATECHISM CATACLYSM. He is a cat lover and a pyromaniac.
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