Egg on Your Face
Short Film Written & Directed by Joshua Parkhill
A documentary crew details the abated rise of a French Egg Chef.
www.instagram.com/egg.onyourface
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DoP: Yaniv Glaser
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CAST
Quentin Bruno
Michelle Narkiss
Frederic Fils-Aime
Amber Crawford
Timmy Walczak

Director Biography - Joshua Parkhill

Originally from the Virginia tri-state area, Parkhill comes from braised working class beginnings. Since a very early age he has had an active affinity for storytelling and its various mediums. Having attended school for a focus on literature, he developed his craft of filmmaking by working on set.

Director Statement
“It is not about eggs. It is about life. And life sometimes is about eggs.”

Sometime after conceptualization it became apparent to me that EGG ON YOUR FACE was not simply just a jest of a pop-psy anecdote. But that its parameters were actually a prism for expression.

Having come of age in a world with much more available information than previous generations, but less social mobility, and more entry way requirements, i wanted to make something that could touch to that reality. I did not want to make an indictment, or a complaint letter, but rather to make sense of these elements, or rather make light of.

One of the things that interests me most about comedy is its ability to explore greater sub-texts. Unearthing through absurdism. Revealing intrinsic truths through ridicule. I think through these mechanisms comedy can lower guards and allow for an in-flow of ideas that may not have been otherwise accessible.

I’ve never been interested in doing comedy in a style of pure raucous camp, i think in order for any form of storytelling to be effective it has to come from a very real place. In the theme of popular psychology i look at the tribune model of the brain. And i will maintain that in order for any story to be greeted with praise by the viewer’s neocortex, it must first be granted a pass by the reptilian brain. And i think this happens only through good raw story telling. Trust is exchanged for sincerity. Then a story, an idea, or a joke can be well received by a viewer.

Throughout the crafting of this piece i sought to strike a continuous balance of shifting tones, it was important to me that the story be engaging above all else. I did not want the work weighed down by intellectualization or camp. Recently i have become privy to the fallacy that while the viewer may not consciously be able to recognize a given attribute that helps to fill out a moment they will know if it is missing. On that same note, i hope that others find this piece satisfying and that they do not find themselves wanting.

Kent Faulcon
Writer/Director/Producer

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Guilds * AFTRA | SAG

Just A Phase Movie
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known for,
"For Better or Worse", "Blackish", Being Mary Jane now "Brothers In Law"

Instagram:
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Trailer:
www.justaphasemovie.com…

Synopsis:
While investigating a mysterious device found hidden in her car, a low level JPL researcher finds herself the target of government forces and is now on the run with the safety of the world in her hands.

Kent Faulcon is a highly acclaimed actor-writer-director who appears regularly in leading and supporting television and film roles, enjoys a career that provides him with the best of all worlds: the opportunity to work with highly renowned actors and directors in some of the biggest films and TV shows in the business and the freedom to work on smaller projects about which he cares deeply. Faulcon is a versatile and classically-trained Shakespearean actor who has been seen in memorable films, television series and stage.

Sizzle Reel - Kent Faulcon 2020
https://vimeo.com/405620458

Director Biography - Kent Faulcon
Within months of graduating from the North Carolina School of the Arts with his B.F.A. in acting, Kent Faulcon was directing his first short film—White Line, the story of two young African American men hired to drive the body of a family friend in a hearse across the rural South for burial. The film was shot on location in a special place—Tabor City, North Carolina, a tiny “three-stoplight” town where Kent’s grandmother lived on the “black side” of the railroad tracks.

Kent now believes he was born with a thirst for storytelling. The first and only artist of any kind in his family, Kent was featured in the Los Angeles Times in March 2008 along with Charles Burnett and Ava DuVernay as part of “a new wave of young independent African American filmmakers armed with audacious visions and fresh perspectives about black life.”

Kent’s independently financed and produced debut feature film Sister’s Keeper was selected to screen at over a dozen film festivals in the U.S. and was also selected by Black Filmmakers Magazine as part of its London International Film Festival. The action-drama, starring Oscar Nominee Eric Roberts and newcomer Denise Boutté, not only secured distribution, it was the Audience Choice Winner for both the Hollywood Black Film Festival and the Texas Black Film Festival and garnered nominations and recognitions for Best Drama, Best Overall Film, Best Actor, and Best Director in festivals across the country. Kent’s recent directing projects include the 30-minute sci-fi film short Just A Phase (currently being developed into a feature), the half-hour, single-camera dramedy pilot, Brothers In Law, as well as episodes of the Amazon web series Bougie Dilemma and an independently-produced multi-camera television series currently seeking distribution, Mi Casa, Mi Casa. Kent has been directing independent projects since college and, as part of honing his directing knowledge and craft, has shadowed directors Paul McCrane (ER) and David Grossman (Desperate Housewives).

Since completing his classical training as an actor and studying Shakespearean acting in London under the tutelage of Dr. Ronald D. Watkins, Kent has garnered leading and supporting commercial, television, and film roles. His varied and extensive time on screen with the likes of Will Smith in Men in Black (Barry Sonnenfeld), Richard Gere in Red Corner (Jon Avnet), Kevin Costner in Dragonfly (Tom Shadyac), and David Oyelowo in Selma (Ava DuVernay) has continuously fueled Kent’s desire to make the “dream career move” of transitioning from an “actor who directs” to a “director who sometimes acts.” Kent has used every acting gig as a crash course in directing. With this experience under his belt, Kent is eager to leap permanently to the director’s chair telling stories with the passion and the technical expertise he has gained from his own directing work as well as working with master directors.