John Harkrider's film MITCHELLVILLE was awarded with the jury's “Honorable Mention Award.”  
Writer/Director: John Harkrider
Executive Producer: Joe Morton
Producer: Eve Annenberg
Cinematographer: Soopum Sohn. Editor: Jack Haigis
Original Music: Matt Mariano

Cast: John Harkrider, Herb Lovelle, Michael Voyer, Anna Lodej Pergola,
Wendell Pierce, Keith Davis

John Harkrider studied acting at the University of Michigan. He then
attended law school and became a lawyer with the purpose of one day
financing his own film.  This is his first film, and he financed it himself.
The film was a photographed wonderfully, the acting and directing was also good.  You could not match the
professional quality of this film with films already in distribution on the big screen today.  

This film to me was the best one of all that I saw.  It was intriguing and made the viewer wonder what was
reality and was not in this mans life.  As we ventured through the film it gave you more and more reason to
believe that Williamson was possibly living in dream world.

The story is about Gabriel Williamson (John Harkrider) is a 32-year-old Wall Street lawyer with a secret past.   
Williamson is up for partner at his firm and is going through a psychiatric evaluation.  This is where you start
wondering what is real and what is all in his mind.  He travels back-and-forth from his childhood to the
present.  Harkrider intertwines the man's life so it is like a giant jigsaw puzzle.  

Who is the unidentified man who follows Williamson and also seems to be stalking him?  The end reveals to
some who the mythical person is and such a subtle ending as any I have seen in a long time.  This film is
beyond extraordinary.

Williamson talks about his marriage to the girl (Anna Lodej Pergola), who lived next door when he was a boy,
his mother (a violinist) and there is another twist as he meets a jazz musician (Herb Lovelle).  Then a place
called Mitchellville, a town in South Carolina where something horrible happened becomes a mystery too.  
All this shows his secret and it takes awhile for you to discern what is reality.  Even the ending makes you
wonder.

Only a few films weave in and out of reality as this one does with such skill.  The story keeps you on the edge
of your seat at each turn.  I hope will be distributed so many people can see this very extraordinary film.
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