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    Living Proof Pictures

    In the last five years alone, Living Proof Pictures has produced three features, 10 shorts, and a 10-episode limited series involving hundreds of collaborators and local businesses. The films have traveled across the country and all over the world, developing a local and global fan base through inclusion at dozens of International Film Festivals. Festivals that have recognized Living Proof Pictures with 25 awards and over 30 additional nominations, including two wins and six nominations for founder Brandon C. Lay’s direction and eight wins and 11 nominations for performances from the Regular Players.

     

    In 2020 during the pandemic, the team created PSAs for NAMI-LV and the Northampton County Department of Mental Health and the Addy award-winning Rose the Sunflower commercial for Soltech Solutions. Their quarantine short Cueball was accepted to the Academy Award qualifying St. Louis International Film Festival, and they completed filming on their newest feature film Bitter Taste of Ginger.

     


     

    Bitter Taste of Ginger just received its first three Official Selections with more notifications coming in every day. Among the festivals is the local ReadingFilmFEST, which will be screening Bitter Taste of Ginger on Saturday, October 2 at 9:30pm in the Reading Movies 11  & IMAX Theater. Tickets available at filmfreeway.com/ReadingFilmFEST.