All the Words on the Page

ABOUT

Arlo, a dyslexic actor, has prepared a powerful monologue. He’s ready to crush his conservatory audition, that is, until he’s asked to perform a new monologue.

SPECS

7 MIN | USA | 2024 | ENGLISH | DRAMA | BLACK & WHITE | DCP

KODAK 16mm 722 and KODAK 16mm 7266 TRI-X-RSVL

THEMES

Dyslexia, Learning Disabilities, Education, New York City Theater

DIRECTED AND WRITTEN BY

Hunter Gause

STARRING

Maximilian Isaacs (The Sweet East) and Paul Lazar (The Silence of the Lambs, Snowpiercer, The Host)

PRODUCED BY

Hunter Gause and Hope Lennox

FESTIVALS

World Premiere - Palm Springs International ShortFest

Nominated for Best U.S. Short

Official Selection - Davey Fest

Official Selection - The Downtown Festival

Official Selection - Adult Film presents Film + Theatre Festival

Semi-Finalist - Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival

ABOUT

Mixing the Greek myth of Chiron and the textures of off-off-Broadway theater, All the Words on the Page is an anxious tale about navigating an invisible disability.

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

The genesis of this film began with a play I wrote about my dyslexia diagnosis and was inspired by a viewing of Claude Chabrol’s film La Cérémonie. I am dyslexic, and I wanted to document the confusion and anxiety of my learning disability. Since no two cases of dyslexia are identical, the script is also informed by research that I conducted with the help of Yale Online and Mary B. Stowe of William and Mary College. Dyslexia is not visible and is not a topic often depicted in cinema. I worked hard to explain dyslexia and hope to educate the audience.

Full Credits

A short film by Hunter Gause | Starring Maximilian Isaacs, Paul Lazar, Jeffrey Brabant & Mona Moriya | Editors Hunter Gause & Julian C. Santos | Director of Photography Nicolas Tepper | Co-Producer Hope Lennox | Casting Violette Trotter | Sound Jesse Malings | Production Design Hope Lennox | Color Nicolas Tepper | Sound Mix Eric Sluyter | Gaffer Thomas Hutteau | Graphics Hope Lennox | 1st AC Dylan Rizzo | 2nd AC Marissa Ogé-Graville | Production Coordinator & Script Supervisor Barbara Toy | Production Assistant Grace Ward | An Occipital Filmworks Picture

Thank you!

Daniel Hess, Brian Trybus, Mark Greer, Meghan Finn, Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin, the entire staff of The Tank, Sarah Rosenthall, Robert Schenkkan, Atlantic Theater Company, Sally Shaywitz, MD, Bennett Shaywitz, MD, Tad D'Agostino, Anna Strout, Dave and Leslie Lennox, Mike Farry, Spalding Gray, Michael DelaFlor, Rachel Walden, Simone Films, A.R.T./New York, Rachel Bass, Sami Pyne, Ben McHugh, Jarred Greenberg, Hannah Applebaum, Allison Morris. Mom and Dad, Mary Stowe M. Ed.

CONTACT

LAWYER

Andrew Jacobsohn

Associate, Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP

ajacobsohn@lewisroca.com

602.262.5311

DISTRIBUTION & SALES

Occipital Filmworks