A Story

Sex and Justice is the story of four people ensnared in a complex web of murders and vengeances. It begins with the unorthodox interrogation of a confessed murderess (Elizabeth Fiara, played by Rebecca De Ornelas) whose interview soon causes new suspicions to form around her interviewer - recently vindicated District Attorney Norman Turner (played by Richard Brundage). Turner’s corruptions are already well known to Detective Robert Bryant (aka “The Texan,” played by John-Patrick Driscoll), but the extent of his partner’s (Detective Robert Montgomery, played by Jonathan Patton) involvement in the entire affair remains a mystery.

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A Statement

The wants and needs of the modern audience are changing (or better, evolving) as web commerce and internet video distribution technologies continue to grow and develop. So too, in our opinion, should art change. It should adapt – not as a means of catering to the audience but as part of a continuing effort to communicate with and involve the audience on familiar terms. Sex and Justice represents our initial efforts to tell a story right and tell it fully, without the constraints sometimes imposed by traditional means of production and distribution, and with the primary emphasis on the film – not the filmmakers.

Sex and Justice (obviously) owes much of its style and its structure to so many classic noir and neo-noir films and novels. It is the producers’ sincere hope, however, that in addition to offering a few minutes of entertainment and intrigue, that the film also makes use of some of the genre’s most recognizable conventions to convey a message more closely tailored to the contemporary audience member and his/her place in society. The themes and the colors and the rhythms of the film may be steeped in well-established generic roots, but the soul of the thing was inspired by the climates of today.

Along these same lines, Sex and Justice has been produced with an emphasis on character and story. Our script was developed over the course of several months, our cast was assembled from out a talent pool of well over five hundred audition applicants, and the shots and sequences that together comprise the film were planned in such a way as to support and strengthen the great performances given by our actors. While the story is high on drama it hopefully falls short of dramatic exploitation. Audiences may have grown used, by now, to stories filled with detectives and criminals and femme fatales and hard shadows – but that doesn’t mean that these elements should be utilized only for style and effect. Crime drama can still hurt…if we allow it.

For more information about the inspiration for Sex and Justice, please explore our blog.

An Experiment in Filmmaking

Sex and Justice is being produced under the Extracting the Web (ETW) Business Model, a business model for producing independent short-form video content of professional quality. The core concepts of the ETW model revolve around utilizing new advantages afforded to producers of independent short-form content by developments and advances in digital video production and distribution technology to produce, market, and self-distribute content which 1) remains the property of its original investors and 2) proves itself to be fiscally lucrative.

Sex and Justice has additionally been kept away from any pre-established conventions in terms of running time and format. The project was shot in such a way as to allow differing formats and running times to be utilized, all of them in support of the same story and with a continuing core emphasis on quality above all things.

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