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She’s not dying. . .

ALPACA PRODUCTIONS Ã “NOT ON MY SHOULDERS“ ARTHUR KRAUS MYRIAM RAYMOND ACCOCIATE CIARA HOLLOWAY PRODUCEDBY LUWEN SHAO e BRIAN FOOTE f HANNAH FARIS g ZACHARY ALSEN PRODUCER a LUWEN SHAO k AYESHA ABOUELAZM © 2017 Alpaca Productions, all rights reserved

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LOGLINE A brother faced with his sister’s terminal cancer struggles to accept her harsh reality and share in what little time she has left.

SYNOPSIS Jacob’s older sister, Jade, has recently been diagnosed with cancer. He has an excruciatingly hard time accepting Jade’s disease and hides in obliviousness to blockout his emotions. His sister’s blunt yet humorous attitude towards her heartbreaking situation makes it harder for him to ignore how he’s feeling. Jacob begins to realize that his behavior hurts his sister as much as it hurts him — the time has come to accept her disease. With each tense moment the two share, Jacob seeks to ease their pain by gradually accepting this harsh reality.

CAST ARTHUR KRAUS JACOB Arthur Kraus is an award winning actor appearing in television, film and on stage. In addition to winning the Merit of Drama by The National Society of Arts and Letters, In the fall of 2015, Arthur Kraus made his television debut on Investigation Discovery's Evil Kin (S3,EP10) closely followed by Nightmare Next Door (S5,EP10). Kraus has also appeared in several short films, including Waiting For Infinity, Lionhearted and Striking Out directed by Travis Crow. Two other professional credits include two nationwide commercials, a commercial for Innovative Express Care, Northwestern's 2gether.

MYRIAM RAYMOND JADE In the span of two years, actress Myriam Raymond has held a leading role in seven short films. Her projects include Hayati (2016), Things You Shouldn’t Say (2016), One of Them (2016), Let Sleeping Dogs Lie (2016), and I Practice Being Ugly (2016), and more recently Perluqueria (2017), and Not On My Shoulders (2017) which has recently entered post production. Professionally, Myriam has worked on of Chicago Justice as a stand-in. She also regularly preforms improv comedy on stages including Second City, Under the Gun, Stage 773, and has been involved in LaughFest and Chicago Improv.

CREW PRODUCER LUWEN SHAO Shao has previously worked as a production assistant for the popular Chinese television series Good Time, and has produced five films within her time in Chicago. Her resume of self produced films include Hi, DAD (2016), In His Face you will See the Light (2016), The Girl in the Blue Bra (2016), Parallel Worlds (2016), Letter to an Imaginary Love (2017), a more personal piece Not on my Shoulders (2017), and the more recently Letter to an Imaginary Love (2017).

AYESA ABOUELAZM DIRECTOR Director Ayesha Abouelazm has collaborated on numerous short films during her time at one of the largest film schools in the country, Columbia College of Chicago. Here credits include One (2015), Love Is A Gray Area (2016), and Utterance (2016). She was also pleased to direct a more personal short this year etitled The Girl In The Blue Bra (2017) which is currently in pre-production.

ZACHARY ALSEN CINEMATOGRAPHER Zachary Alsen an accomplished cinematographer, has helmed six short films in career. Her credits includeThe Kick (2015), Stardust Motel (2016), Hollow (2016), The Girl in the Blue Bra (2016), Wallbangers (2016) and Darknet.

Since graduating from Columbia College Chicago, Zachary, has also worked as a gaffer on a number of professional films, including Happy Snow Day Frannie (2017), Limerence (2017), Jesus, Bro! (2017), and Mercury in Retrograde (2017).

HANNA FARIS PRODUCTION DESIGNER Hanna’s first experience in the art department was on a thesis film entitled Freak Flag (2016), which has won various awards in the festival circuit.

Through helping the art department on Freak Flag, Hanna was scouted by Luwen Shao and asked to the production designer for Not on my Shoulders.

For the past year Hanna has worked on a multitude of professional set all around Chicago and is learning all that she can.

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YEAR: 2017 TOTAL RUNTIME: 13minutes 14 seconds Shooting Format: Cannon c300 Exhibition Format: DVD/BluRay Language: English Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

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