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Rat Pack Rat

Made in Texas: Tribute to Austin Film Society 2018 / Rat Pack Rat / USA 2014

Todd Rohal’s dark, comedic cinema is inspired by slapstick, vaudeville, silent-era comedies, and the bizarre and grotesque. This short, which won a major prize at the Sundance Film Festival, is about a terminally ill young man visited by a Sammy Davis Jr. impersonator.

Rat Pack Rat Rat Pack Rat

Synopsis

Austin-based filmmaker Todd Rohal’s dark, comedic cinema is inspired by slapstick, vaudeville, silent-era comedies, and the bizarre and grotesque. This made-in-Austin short, which won a major prize at the Sundance Film Festival, is about a terminally ill young man visited by a Sammy Davis Jr. impersonator.

Holly Herrick

About the film

19 min / Color, DCP

Director Todd Rohal / Screenplay Todd Rohal / Dir. of Photography Benjamin Kasulke / Music Joseph Stephens / Editor Todd Rohal / Art Director Scott Colquitt / Producer Todd Rohal, Zack Carlson, Megan Griffiths, Clay Liford, Ashland Viscosi / Production Smits Brothers / Coproduction Arts+Labor / Cast Eddie Rouse, Steve Little, Margie Beegle / Contact Smits Brothers

About the director

Todd Rohal

Todd Rohal. Selected filmography: The Guatemalan Handshake (2006), The Catechism Cataclysm (2011), Nature Cells (2012), Rat Pack Rat (2014, short), Uncle Kent 2 (2015), The Suplex Duplex Complex (2017, TV)

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Smits Brothers
304 Canion St., TX 78752, Austin
United States of America
Phone: 703-346-1663
E-mail: [email protected]

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