The Upper Room

 
 
A Fundraising Event, “Dawn of Freedom” Photo Page Thank you for your support! 12/13/07 @ George Billis Gallery Single Eye Pictures presents a feature film, The Upper Room slated to be shot in late Feburary 2008. Creative Team: Exec. Producer, Robert Manganelli; Producers, Catherine MacKinnon & Terrylene; Director, Mark Travis; Director of Photography, Wayne Betts Jr.; and Screenwriter and actress, Terrylene. In The Now starring Terrylene is an autobiographical, one woman show, adapted into a feature film project, The Upper Room in the tradition of previous Mark Travis productions: Time Flies When Your Alive (HBO), Undressing New Jersey and Bronx Tales developed from the format of one man show. After 8 years in the making, 89 critically acclaimed performances in 24 states and 36 cities. Actress, writer, Terrylene Sacchetti adapts In The Now for the screen, entitled The Upper Room. Single Eye Pictures partners up with a non profit organization, Deaf Arts Council to spearhead the first ever Nationwide NonViolence Awareness Project, “Freedom for Deaf Community’s Children” which is part of the feature film’s 24 city tour. “Many Deaf & hard of hearing women and children simply accept abuse as a way of life not realizing that it has a name, “abuse.” They live in silence, not knowing that they have a choice in freedom.” Terrylene SacchettiNonViolence_Awareness_Project.htmlshapeimage_4_link_0

Genre:

Drama

Charming Non-Fiction

Bittersweet

Autobiographical


The Upper Room

is a personal story of nonstop motion and visual invention packed with sympathetic, energetic and passionate moments merging American Sign Language and cinema  language like never before.



The Upper Room is an endearing tale of a ten-year-old Deaf girl’s coming of age in the 1970’s.

The girl tries to reconcile her experiences in an unstable home life with the kindness given to her at school, a residential school for the Deaf. 

In coping, the little girl escapes into her imagination, The Upper Room, where she meets the woman in herself.

The story transports us into this little girl’s journey as a woman in the 90’s where she is left to deal with the tragic, dark secret in her life.

Her grandmother’s love conquers the conflicting messages of love & lack of trust in this woman, Terrylene.

She is being called to do the unimaginable.



From a One Woman Play to a Feature Film