Free Film Screening -"Waiting for the Passion" February 16, 2007

FREE FILM SCREENING - New 16mm Print - FRIDAY FEB. 16th @ 8pm. Winner of the South Bronx Film Festival. Christopher Summa's "Waiting for the Passion" (52 minutes/Color/16mm) is a volatile male character study of a college student who wants to leave America to escape turbulent relationships he has with both his father and brother. Through a series of visualized letters and dramatically edited montage sequences the film captures the confusion and fear so many young people feel as their college days wind down.

“Consciously or not, what Summa has set out to do is to meet squarely the paradoxical double requirement of art: Art must reach the eternal in a way that never existed before. That he has made great and effective use of film’s power and flexibility is beyond question. He shows that, more than mere storytelling, film can also be, on its own terms, poetry: the efficient and suggestive communication of ideas without the restrictions of narrative. No doubt Summa has achieved the second of art’s requirements: He has found an effective way to express his ideas, a way that is markedly his.
Whether he has achieved the first requirement of expressing human truths is a judgement to be made by more than one reviewer. By definition, masses are required. To say I was moved by it -- I was -- is to admit that the film speaks to young men just starting out. Can it be more than that? Go see it.”
THE CAPE COD CHRONICLE

“Waiting for the Passion” is a 52 minute movie - made on a shoestring - that packs more dramatic punch and displays more talent than many big-budget feature films. Many New York-based independent films are sitting-around-talking ensemble pieces with little or no visual interest. “Waiting for the Passion” is beautifully shot (by Summa) and so creatively edited that the filmmaker never has to rely on dialogue to move the story along.”
THE CONNECTICUT POST

“Open your eyes and minds....this film is a tour de force!”
THE INTERNATIONAL GOLDEN CALF AWARDS

Official Website: http://www.dramaticusfilms.com