4:41 pm …….. How to Get Away with it

How to Get Away with it

 A psychologist and his patient argue about the plausibility of getting away with murder. Then they come up with a plan.

Director Biography

Ever since Andrew Dunlop first put his hands on a video camera 20 years ago he has known exactly what he wanted to do in life: Use filmmaking to tell stories – the most provocative and engaging stories possible. By high school, he was scripting and shooting shorts and features, pulling his friends and anyone he could find into the mix. After taking a break to focus on music and a day job, Andrew has spent the past decade amassing a plethora of ideas and stories he intends to use to build his career as a filmmaker. “How to Get Away with it” is his first feature film, which he hopes to use as a means to get into the industry.

Director Statement

I’ve always been fascinated by films that are driven by complex characters and compelling dialogue – which was my goal when writing “How to Get Away with it”. I want the audience to lose themselves in the story. To achieve this, I had to create an immersive, progressive situation which will invariably hold their attention until the very last frame. As the story takes you along the build-up of a bad idea getting worse – the snowball effect – the situation our characters find themselves in spins out of control and their idea can no longer be restricted to the hypothetical. Reese and the Doctor’s arguments about how to get away with it are escalated by their individual stubbornness to prove and disprove one another throughout the evening.

“How to Get Away with it” holds a mirror up to some of the darker aspects of society, realizing that people are complicated – they don’t easily fall into categories such as heroes or villains. I want the audience to laugh along with “the bad guy” and find him charismatic – a sympathy for the devil – until his actions become so grotesque that we suddenly remember why he is and always has been the “the bad guy”. I want his ideas to be so compelling and convincing that we are willing to go along for the ride regardless of the cost.

Murder is an ugly topic and human beings can be inherently cruel towards one another. A career working in news and media have made me acutely aware of this. By discussing a macabre topic through the lens of a comedy I want to make the audience examine their own feelings on homicide and violence – especially when thinking of other films where killing might be easily dismissed or trivialized.

By setting the film in a single location I have given further credence to “the bad guy’s” ideas as the interactions between the two main actors becomes the driving force, advancing the plot. The actors are convincing and genuine – conveying a sense of urgency and kinetic energy which builds up over the course of the story through captivating dialogue and growing tension.

  • Andrew Dunlop
    Director
  • Andrew Dunlop
    Writer
  • Andrew Dunlop
    Producer
  • Laura Grande
    Producer
  • Sean Marjoram
    Producer
  • Jennifer Ouellette
    Producer
  • Jon Berrie
    Key Cast
  • John Cianciolo
    Key Cast
  • Kerry Prunskus
    Key Cast
  • Julia Heximer
    Key Cast
  • Andrew Dunlop
    Editor
  • Danielle Peckitt
    Camera Assistant
  • Shane Campbell
    Sound Recordist
  • Nicole Stredder
    Hair & Makeup
  • Jennifer Ouellette
    Media & Publicity
  • Andrew Dunlop
    Original Score

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