Synopsis Distribution Cast Crew About the Director

Festivals & Screenings Broadcasts Quicktime Excerpt Shooting Script

• Comedy-Drama, 22 1/2 minutes, colour, 16mm film, 1992.
• Directed by Michael Brockington
• Produced by Michael Brockington, in association with the Simon Fraser University Film Workshop.
  
  Gold Award, WorldFest-Charleston, South Carolina, 1993
  Honorable Mention, Columbus International Film & Video Festival, Ohio, 1993
  Norman McLaren Award for Best Film, Canadian Student Film Festival, Montreal, Quebec, 1992

---

Love, coffee, a place to spend the night: what can you buy for a quarter? Marlboro City is about five strangers in a bank of pay phones. This city is full of voices: conversations tangle and unravel and 2 bits is all you need to get in the game. Take a chance on the one-ear bandit, folks. But what exactly do you say, when everything you need and desire must be expressed, compressed, filtered through a wire?

Personal conversations in glass-walled cubicles: Marlboro City offers plenty of isolation but not much privacy. As the film progresses, the people in the booths are drawn into each other's problems.

This film contains some coarse language.

Marlboro City is available on 16mm film, and on 1/2", 3/4" and 1" videotape. Copyright, and all distribution rights are owned by Michael Brockington. Releases have been secured from all performers and all music is original.

Marlboro City is a certified Canadian production; CAVCO Certificate Number P14829.

Distribution Contact Addresses:

Michael Brockington, 29, is an independent filmmaker based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He's a member of Cineworks, a Vancouver filmmakers cooperative, and has recently completed a degree in film at Simon Fraser University. He works as a film editor, and is currently writing a short film dealing with photography and memory. Other pursuits include freelance writing, still photography, electronic music & computer programming.

Filmography:

Marlboro City, 1992, 16mm, colour, 22 1/2'
Eat Truth, 1989, 16mm, colour, 5'
Static, 1989, 16mm, b&w and colour, 4'

In the Booths
Mark Schooley		Scully
Benjamin Ratner		Harlan
Akiko Morison		Emily
Jason Metz		Jeremy
Penny Hetherington		Maria

On Location
Jan Riddell		Jenny
Michael O'Shea		Dexter
Tammy Isbell		Atlanta

Written, Directed & Edited by Michael Brockington

Light		John McIntosh
Camera		Jennifer Baum
Sound Recording		Nela Blackstone & Sherri Fetterly
Art Direction		Ken Anderlini
Production Manager		Glen Andersen
Assistant Director		Marilyn Kynaston
Producers		Michael Brockington & SFU Film Workshop

Premiere: Ridge Theatre, Vancouver, B.C., Canada May 5, 1992
• Canadian Student Film Festival, Montreal, Quebec Aug-Sept, 1992

• Between the Waters Festival, Kamloops, B. C. October, 1992

• Northwest Film & Video Festival, Portland, Oregon November, 1992

• DAS Festival of Five, Vancouver, British Columbia June, l993

• Worldfest-Charleston, South Carolina November, 1993

• Columbus International Film & Video Festival, Ohio 1993

• Glass Eyes, Vancouver, British Columbia July, 1994

• New Frontiers Film Festival, Ottawa, Ontario July, l994

• Victoria Independent Film Festival, Victoria, B.C. May, 1995

KCTS Television, Seattle, USA One-time broadcast. Sept. 4, l994

Script

The Shooting Script for Marlboro City is available on-line.

Home Page

Film Background