• Run time: 104 minutes
• Country of origin: United States

PORTOBELLO FILM FESTIVAL (SUMMER FALL, UK)

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Synopsis:

"A LITTLE KARMA GOES A LONG WAY!"

Karma, up-tight fashion editor at Bangles Magazine, becomes a poet after moving in with her wacky new-age therapist half-sister. First-time comedy feature by Jill Wisoff. Join Karma on a cosmic journey from her unusual birthing during the swinging sixties to a colorful New York City landscape in search of her true nature. Experience shallow friends, rapping nuns, a gay sitarist, interesting job opportunities, yoga positions, dysfunctional romance and more! Cast includes Saturday Night Fever co-star Karen Lynn Gorney in the role of Karma's shopaholic mother, Chanel.(more)

• Director:

  Jill Wisoff

• Writer(s):

  Jill Wisoff and Carol Lee Sirugo

• Producer(s):

  Jill Wisoff

• Director of Photography:

  Carter Bissell and A.C. Rose Neeley

• Cast and Credits:

  Karen Lynn Gorney: Chanel “Lollipop Fields” Fontaine
  Carol Lee: Sirugo Karma
  Jill Wisoff: Callie
  Joe Grifasi: Prighorn
  Roland Sands: Rajah
  Peggy A. Kirkpatrick: Eleanor Martlin
  Rahad Coulter-Stevenson: Vincent
  Jeremy Ebenstein: Kevin Kingston
  Jennifer Lee: Mitchell Barbara
  Riana Hershenfeld : Trish
  The Family:
  
  Leslie Levinson: Edith Rosenblatt
  Moogy Klingman: Sidney Arthur Rosenblatt
  David Wright: Young Rajah
  Danielle Roth: Young Callie
  Stephen Lemay: Neville
  Norma Chu: Nurse
  David Schecter: Rabbi
  Harvey Kaufman: Lawyer
  Pashu Pathi Ganeshan: Sabu
   
  Bangles Magazine:
  Mark Philip Patrick: Digsby Pembroke III
  Brad Lee Wind: Cousin Freddie
  Fall Aboubacay Eddie: the Security Guard
  Callie’s Loft:
  
  Nick Raio: Morgana
  Emily Mitchell: Minnie
  Joe Cross: Sam
  Robert Galinsky: Aldo
  Cirilo Nunez: Ramon
  Alexandre de Toulouse Lautrec: Francois
  Dinarte Freitas: Dinner Guest
  Brian Armstrong: Dinner Guest
  Therapy Patients:
  
  Jovis De Pognon, Gray Stevenson, Stacie Bach, Marlene Villafane, Christian Pierre and Tywan Williams
  Kaka’s Poet Café
  
  Joseph Pampillonia (aka Scheebo): Horse
  Angela Muto : Sister Daphne
  Donna Nasr: Nancy
  Bronwen Coleman: Tall Lipstick Lesbian
  Cathie Boruch: Short Lipstick Lesbian
  Kevin T. Collins: Poetry Fan
  Katie Christian Flower: child girl poet
  Johnny Black: Spike
  Ronnie Barua: New Beginnings member
  Jimi Black: New Beginnings member
  Jeiron Session: Man with puppet
  Lee Ottley: Cherry Pop Biker
  Izabella Varson: Biker Chick
  Couple in Love: Khadijah Britton and Mick Oakleaf
  Margarita Zhitnikova: Shovel Girl
  Shelly Barclay: Lollipop Fan
  David Wright: Baghead
  Nimo Gandhi: Waterhole Guide
  Marion Markham: Jogger
  Kane Manera: Jogger
  Clifton Wilson: Mover
  Lucy McMichael: Yogi Agency Interviewer
  Bret Haines: Harry the Doorman
  Andrew McCann: Blind Man
  Maia Kern: Coffee Worker
  Steve Bussen: Coffee Drinker
  Jessica LoMonaco: Redhaired Girl
  Catherine Gulacsy: Girl with Ring
  Claire Harlem: Hippie in water
  Fiona Tyson: Hippie in water
  David Powell: Obnoxious interviewer
  Osata Dixon: Interviewer
  Enid Hiers: Interviewer
  Patrick Cashin: Boy’s father with clown
  Shane Cashin: Child with clown
  Dr. B. George Wisoff: Bombay Media Group CEO
  Rebekah Wisoff: Wife to the CEO
  Nina Simich: Fashionable dog owner
  Eric Holzer: Gym flexer
  Paul Parker: Gym flexer
  Vanessa Alexis: Bookstore patron
  Corey Robinson: Bookstore patron
  Talulah Marie Gilroy: Little girl lunching
  Ji Choi: Restaurant Patron
  Tzaddi Gimmel : Salesman in store
  Meagan Brant: Model
  Fatima Abdullah: Model
  Veronica Ramirez: Bellydancer
  George Veale VI: Dancer
  John Francis Herbert: Dancer
  Noel W. Quinones : Photographer
  Stephan W. Kolbert : Straw Hat Buyer
  Mary D. Ways: Hat Buyer
  Additional Crew:
  
  Co-Producer/Assistant Director: David Wright
  Associate Producer: Catherine Gulacsy
  2nd A.D.: Enid Hiers
  Assistant to Producer: Jessica LoMonaco
  Gaffer: Casey Wooden
  Sound : David Powell
  Grips: Matt Walker, Corey Robinson, Michael Mervilde Jr. and Osato Dixon
  Best Boy: Jeiron Session
  Script Supervisor: Vanessa Alexis
  2nd Unit Camera: Christain de Rezendes
  Live Sound at Fix Mick Oakleaf
  Costume Designer: Nina Simich
  Wardrobe Coordinator: George Veale VI
  Wardrobe assistant: Fiona Tyson
  Production Designer: Kathleen Muldoon
  Set Seamstress : Kerry Lowe
  Photographic Art on Bangles walls: by Kathleen Muldoon
  Props: Elisa Castaneda
  Hair Design: Tywan Williams
  Makeup: Maia Kern, Fiona Tyson, Ellen Bodkins, Mehwish Khan and Micah Rice
  Extras Casting: Bob Giovanelli
  Additional Casting: Johnny Black
  Budget Consultant: Ann Bennett
  Budget Preparation: Anthony Vorhies
  Catering Chef Ross LLC
  Pre-Production Counsel: Fernando Ramirez
  Counsel to the Producer: Innes Smolansky
  Post Production Supervisor: Christine Giorgio
  Editors: Jill Wisoff, Christine Giorgio and David Wright
  Audio Post Production: Robert J. Kessler
  Music Supervisor/additional sound design: Mick Oakleaf
  Composer: Joel Diamond
  
  Songs:
  Creating Karma by Jill Wisoff/Performed by Roland Sands, Jennifer Lee Mitchell and Riana Hershenfeld/Produced by Joel Diamond © Fantasy Creature Productions (BMI)
  Party Alone written and performed by Joel Diamond © Len and Minkie Music (BMI)
  Rock on Rajah Man written and performed by Johnny Black © Johnny Black (BMI)
  
  Non-Planet/Non-Plussed by Craig Backel/Performed by Radio Free Zone © Craig Backel (BMI)
   
  In the Sun written and performed by Joel Diamond © Len and Minkie Music (BMI)
  Master of Ceremony written and performed by Jill Wisoff/Produced by Chris Spedding © Fantasy Creature Productions (BMI)
  Pass the Puppet by Jill Wisoff/Performed by Jeremy Ebenstein © Fantasy Creature Productions (BMI)
  Falling Madly in Love by Andrew McCann/Performed by Shalaine Adams © Andrew McCann (ASCAP)
  Gates of H by David Wright © David Wright (BMI)
  Still in my Heart written and performed by Andrew McCann© Andrew McCann (BMI)
  Special thanks to the Screen Actors Guild
  Creating Karma was made possible through the generous assistance of its fiscal sponsor Film/Video Arts, arguably the largest and oldest independent film cooperative on the East Coast…the film was edited in its facilities on a G4 and then a G5 with final cut pro starting right before, and then after their move into their new home on 21st street off Broadway in Manhattan.
  
  
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  http:/ / www.creatingkarma.com

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