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Incorporated in 1991, and named for the Sioux character in the company’s first publication,

(THE LADY AND THE LION by actor-writer T. D. White), this firm incepts, conceives and originates

films, fictions, scenarios and word paintings; produces and directs live productions (theatrical dramaturgy); also offers top quality recording service by professionals, for professionals, in the film, TV, advertising, and music industries, d/b/a The Lakhota Sound Recording Company: (www.LakhotaSound.com.


"... a lovely landmark film about art ..." - F. Murray Abraham

                  " ... striking and lyrical ... subtle and evocative." --  David Sterritt, Chairman, National Society of Film Critics

      "... a ...perfect work of art, with an integrity and a purity that few works of   cinema ever achieve." -- Judith Malina, Founder of The Living Theatre

"... unique ... beautifully rendered ... gorgeous score ...convincing performances ...this sweet, subtle and mesmerizing film explores the meaning of art ... Recommended." Library Journal, Feb. 15, 2010

"The acting is superb ... Simple yet sophisticated, this cinematic masterpiece is a rare find ..." School Library Journal, Nov. 2008, p.64.

 

 

"To Paint the Portrait of a Bird"

 

Poetry in motion....a beautiful short film inspired by the famous Jacques Prevert masterpiece.  As he is observed by a young boy, a painter seeks to capture life, a living thing ... a bird ... on canvas.  Available in the original French, Italian, or in the English translation by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Canada/US, August 2007, 15 mins.

 

(WINNER! - Best Short Film, 2007 New York/Avignon Film Festival)

Official Selection: Woodstock Film Festival

Mill Valley Film Festival

Montreal World Film Festival

Spiritual Cinema Circle

Bayou City Inspirational Film Festival

 

www.topainttheportraitofabird.com

 

DVD $10 Plus $2 Shipping

English Version

 

French Version

Translation by Beat Generation poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, narration by Antoine Ray of the United Nations International School.

 

Italian Version

With translation by actor Vincenzo Amato (Respiro, directed by Emmanuele Criale), narration by Tommaso Salvadore of the United Nations International School.

 

 


Dinner on the Riviera

 (or Where's the Three-legged Dog?)

          

                                                                                                                                                                 "Circe, Circe, Daughter of the Sun"

                                                                                                                                                                             - -painting by Stephen Lloyd Smith


It sure ain't the straight story ... a woman wants her rent stabilized apartment back from her ex-husband,
a priest lay dying, a workin' man

has had it up to here,  another man sits on a stoop at night between drinks ...a street psychotic approaches... these are local people on the

verge, or beyond .... as a writer remembers, invents, imagines, observes... no Vermeer here ... more like a Braque in this contemporary

cityscape.

 

 By T. D. White, shot by Lily Gist. Autumn 2010,  15 minutes. $12 DVD, $2 Download

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Exchange, by Adam Hall

 

T. D. White in Adam Hall's delicious one-minute film.  Click here for free download!

 

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Script: "I See A Voice!"

 

Did a really famous horror story actually evolve out of a romantic comedy?  Think "Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid."

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Script: Will at Work

"Live!... at the Cockpit!:Will at Work with the Lord Chamberlain's Men"

 

(It's Shakespeare ... but this time from behind ... time will-spent!)

 

 ... actors act up ... the tiring house, what we now call the dressing room  of the newly built Globe Theatre

during a 1599 performance of the last act of William Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, that "lamentable

comedy and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisby..."

Meet the men responsible for the "First Folio," John Heminge and Henry Condell. Meet Thomas Pope, reputed to

have played Falstaff before the Queen, and the musician/actor Augustine Phillip; Richard Burbage, the primary "sharer"

and lead actor. You'll meet the Bard himself, as the true "Lion" he was, as he "directs" the "men" in new scenes he has

just written for Henry V and yes, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. And you'll meet Nell. You gotta meet Nell.  

 

How it may have been ...

 

Visit www.willatwork.com

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Film: The Hypnotist

 

Originally a Talk House production now available from Loose Moon Productions, Inc.  A short film written and

directed by Seamus McNally (a mix of 16 mm and DV shot in Jersey City and Manhattan by Jonathon Cliff of

Toronto) premiered as an Official Selection of the 27th annual Montreal Festival des Films du Monde (2003). 

A young man is guided through a recurring nightmare by a local magus played by T. D. White.

 

...."a beautiful job of nuanced, understated film-making-- suggestive and dramatic at the same time, which isn't easy to pull off. 

Very strong camera work as well as good acting and sensitive use of music." -- David Sterritt, film critic for the Christian Science Monitor

 

DVD Price: $10 (Plus $2 Shipping)

 

 

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Script: Murder by Word of Mouth

 

Intense drama written to help the 20% or so of the population adversely affected by alcohol fallout in the family. 

A one-act play produced at the Greenwich Street Theatre in NY.   Caution: crime scene.  Screenplay in progress.

In a cityscape, a man of forty, inspired by a poem, seeks to recover and rebuild his life from a lifelong bout

with alcoholism.  He seeks the guidance of a therapist who uncovers the developmental damage in this man's early

inner city life ... the effects of trauma ... "child of chaos" syndrome ... the suspicious death of his brother ... at last,

a user-friendly universe in a stirring and most surprising conclusion: "Kitchen sink" drama with inspirational ending.

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Script: The No Zone (Last Licks!)

 

A grizzled Greenwich Village bartender is visited by Frank, a thirty-year-old nephew he hasn't seen since the boy was five ...

 since his his brother's odd passing and his nephew's subsequent and distant relocation.  Frank, the nephew named for his father,

 wants first-hand information, but his uncle suspects other motives, and deals a different set of cards and free admission to another

dimension where everything changes, including the characters.  

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The Lady and the Lion (short novel)

 

In two-act form, it is a satire of media called THE KING OF DIAMONDS .  It was directed as a concert-style reading by

George Ferencz at LaMama e.t.c. in April of 2002, and as a screenplay we call it SOME THINGS ARE SACRED.    Jacques

Barzun has said that “if one would know the heart and mind of America, one should learn baseball.”   A major league eco-vandal

shows us why.  Baseball, and the 14th c. Toltec period.   Meet Noland Walker catcher and civil disobedient, Alicia West, New

Orleans newswoman, Siobhan Spillane, attorney,  Andrew Washington, “special investigator,” and the Sioux, Loose Moon.  Visit

San Francisco, New Orleans, Houston, D. C. and other major league American cities as Noland Walker, the philosopher sprite and

athlete, imaginatively transforms our modern world.

Price $10.00 (Shipping $2)

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Also Available: WHERE THE EASTERN MIND MEETS THE WESTERN WORD: Mystical Musings

of a 21st Century Druid, with WET MONEY: Saloon Shorts and Memoirials) - $ 12.95.

 

 

Price $12.95 (plus $ 1.00 for mailing)

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T. D. White is a card-carrying NYC writer-actor (SAG-AFTRA-AEA) and member of The Dramatists’

Guild with performance history in HBO’s Sex and the City (The Amish guy in “The Big Journey,”

remember? Fifth Season, the train?), Deadline and Conviction; and live at The Mint, The Red Room,

La Mama e.t.c., the National Arts Club, Irish Arts Center, most recently as Ernest Hemingway in

“Karaoke Night at the Suicide Shack.”  He is the title character in Seamus McNally’s THE HYPNOTIST,

an official selection of Le Festival des Films du Monde (Montreal).

 


 

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