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Synopsis

Peter Abano’s milestone birthday will go down in history as one of the most awful, and wonderful. He finds himself newly single, depressed and ready to give up, until a younger mysterious stranger appears. The lessons he will learn are: Friends are everything, it’s never too late to find love – and brunch is sacred.

About

ROW BOAT PRODUCTIONS, LA STRADA ENSEMBLE & CHECKER LIAR PICTURES
present “RIPPLES OF WATER”

starring GIAN CARLO DURLAND, PHIL KORZ, DOUG BOLLINGER, CHRISTINE NAGY and GEOFF SHIELDS

songs by KAREN MANSFIELD
music by BRIAN BREEN

production design by NICOLE FALVO
cinematography & editing by ERIC HACKLER

produced by AJ CICCOTELLI, GIAN CARLO DURLAND, DOUG BOLLINGER, PHIL KORZ, ERIC HACKLER

written by AJ CICCOTELLI & GIAN CARLO DURLAND

directed by AJ CICCOTELLI

Background

RIPPLES OF WATER began its life as a monologue and later a one act play by AJ CICCOTELLI. The play was then performed at the 2017 Rainbow festival by the La Strada Theater Ensemble in Ocean Grove. While at the festival, which features short LGBTQ works from all over the nation, RIPPLES was so well received that the idea to adapt the play into a feature film was born.

AJ CICCOTELLI, along with the stage production’s co-lead GIAN CARLO DURLAND then wrote the screenplay and set about the very difficult task of completing a feature film with just eight full days of filming and a $5,000 budget.  Additional support was provided by producers DOUG BOLLINGER, PHIL KORZ (the co-lead in the stage production),the invaluable skill of ERIC HACKLER as cinematographer and editor and the many other NJ theater and film artists who gave their time and talents so generously to the project. 

RIPPLES OF WATER has been fortunate enough to have been accepted in over a dozen film festivals and has been recognized with several accolades which include:

“Ripples of Water” is now streaming on Amazon Prime, i-Tunes and Apple TV!