''Falsehood'' (

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

) is a short film written and directed by Kenneth Lui starring Anne Welles, Mark Irvingsen,

Marie-Noelle Marquis Marie-Noelle Marquis (born January 29, 1979) is a French-Canadian actress. Life At an early age, she started ballet and painting, until she joined a music conservatory high school and studied clarinet for five years. Upon her graduation, she de ...

and Stuart Proffitt. Its style is a highly visual fusion of film noir against classic fairy tale motifs. It is written in the style of a courtroom drama with

neo-noir Neo-noir is a revival of film noir, a genre that had originally flourished during the post-World War II era in the United Statesroughly from 1940 to 1960. The French term, ''film noir'', translates literally to English as "black film", indicating ...

elements.

Story

The film opens on an idyllic pasture where a young Bo Peep awakens from an ill-timed nap to find her sheep missing. After searching for her sheep with no luck, she finds bloody wool remains and believes that The Big Bad Wolf has eaten her flock. Years later, the grown up Bo Peep (Anne Welles) is working as a public defense attorney and confronts her own prejudice when she's assigned to defend The Big Bad Wolf (Mark Irvingsen) in the infamous Red Riding Hood (Marie-Noelle Marquis) rape trial. In the tradition of

fables Fable is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral ...

, the film makes use of the interactions between humans and imaginary characters to explore themes of racial discrimination and hypocrisy set in a dark fairy tale world.

Cast

* Anne Welles as Little Bo Peep * Mark Irvingsen as The Big Bad Wolf *

as Little Red Riding Hood * Stuart Proffitt as The Hunter * Barbara Scolaro as Storybook Hand * Troy Barron as Bailiff * Timothy Brennen as The Prosecutor * Erynn Dana Dalton as Rapunzel * Allison Ehly as Young Little Bo Peep * Kim Farris as The Cat * Zachary Hahn as The Judge * Adrian Hasenmayer as Reporter * Nancy Hasenmayer as Grandma * Cathy King as Cinderella * Mike Kruzel as Bailiff * Thomas Mounkes as Bailiff * Ariadne Shaffer as Snow White Charming

Festivals and awards

Other Showings

KCET Fine Cut

On August 16, 2002 the Sixth season of

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s “Fine Cut – A Festival of Student Film” program aired ''Falsehood''. Before the film began, a warning was issued for adult content, in reference to its coarse language, violence, and sexual content. An interview with writer/director Kenneth Lui was aired after the film.

Web Series

In 2011, Falsehood was re-released as a web series on StayTunedTV and

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. As a web series, Falsehood was nominated by StayTunedTV for five awards: Best Drama, Best Actor in a Drama (Mark Irvingsen), Best Actress in a Drama (Anne Welles), Best Director (Kenneth Lui), and Best Writer (Kenneth Lui). It was awarded the Best Director award at the StayTunedTV/ITVFest Awards 2011.

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, id=0317473, title=Falsehood
''Falsehood''

2001 films American short films 2001 fantasy films American neo-noir films 2000s English-language films 2000s American films