Filmic Achievement is a mock-umentary film by Kevin Kerwin and Authentic Films

Authentic Films

Authentic Films is based in Cleveland, Ohio, and is focused on the clients, and the work. They specialize in Commercials, Music Videos and Feature Films. They have produced commercials for people including The Ohio Independent Film Festival, the Ansfield-Wolf Book Awards, Conrad's Total Car and...

. The film takes a humorous look at film school.
According to the official website of the film,

UNY Film School is an intensive, selective program located in the heart of New York City. Each year, UNY awards one student the coveted Filmic Achievement Award. Buck Felty, Dean and Screenwriting professor, approached Kevin Kerwin to document the selection process for the award. Kerwin was given an all-access pass to the school and was able to examine the workings of the program at UNY: the instruction, the work, the competition, and the selection of the winner. The result is Filmic Achievement, a revealing look at film school and the equally misunderstood and passionate filmmakers of tomorrow.

According to Brian A Kovach on IMDB,

A "This is Spinal Tap" for the world of film schools, this mockumentary follows the careers of 7 film school students from their first day of film class at UNY (whose graduates work "here to Kentucky.")until one is chosen as the winner of the school's Filmic Achievement Award. We meet Delvo Christian, who desperately wishes hew were French and has 400.000 feet of undeveloped film 'gestating" in grocery bags in his apartment. In his mother's basement we meet Mike Pack who worships Quentin Tarantino but whose mother may be the real director in the family. Those are just 2 of the students overseen by faculty like Buck Felty, who becomes a little too excited by his students' film pitches, and Selway Cascade who insists that she left her ego back in her apartment and who listens to student input because, well, she is obligated to. The stereotypes are drawn broadly and the situations are absurd yet the characters and script are [frighteningly] believable. WORLD PREMIERE 29th Annual Cleveland International Film Festival.

Crew

Writer/Director Kevin Kerwin

Producer Kate O'Neil

Kate O'Neil

Kate O'Neil lives in Cleveland, and is one of the founders of Authentic Films with Kevin Kerwin. She is also well known for her work cleaning up streets in downtown Cleveland, and putting local artists' work in empty storefront windows. In 2005, she produced the feature film, Filmic Achievement...

Director of Photography Rick Lopez

Rick Lopez

Rick Lopez is a cinematographer and teacher based in New York City. He is a graduate of, and taught cinematography at Columbia University. He was Director of Photography on the popular mock-umentary Filmic Achievement in 2005 and worked with Writer/Director Kevin Kerwin and Producer Kate O'Neil,...

Editor Aaron Lubarsky

Aaron Lubarsky

Aaron Lubarsky is an Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker known for his work on the HBO documentary Journeys with George, the PBS documentary Seoul Train and Sportsfan. After graduation from Stanford University's Documentary Film Program, he worked as a documentarian at Lucasfilm on "The...

Original Score Dennis Lewin

Production Sound, Jeremy Scott Frindel

Assistant Director, Cecily Kaston

1st Assistant Director, Dan Nemet-Nejat

Production Design, Greg Bunch

Additional Photography, Jae Song

Additional Sound, Alex Portugal

Assistant Editor, Brandon Park

Casting, Neil Hopkins, Saba Homayoon, Rude Mechanicals (theater company)

Cast

Andrew Benator

Andrew Benator

Andrew Benator is an actor best known for his work in the cult hit mock-umentary Filmic Achievement and in his string of national Citibank ads featuring him losing his bill, waiting on the phone while on hold with his bank, etc. He performed with the Rude Machanicals Theater Company...

 ... Delvo Christian

Claire Winters ... Constance Van Horn

Matthew Lawler

Matthew Lawler

Matthew Lawler was a mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, serving four one-year terms from 1801 to 1805.Lawler was active in the American Revolution, in which he commanded privateering ships, including the Holker and later the Ariel.He served as the chairman of the board of directors of the...

 ... Buck Felty

Dave T. Koenig ... Mike Pack

Finnerty Steeves ... Kris Stein

Kathryn Markey ... Selway Cascade

Janie Brookshire ... Kelly Rush

Jacqueline Sydney ... Mrs. Pack

Leonard Armond Robinson ... Xavier Robert Reynolds

Joe Delafield ... Leslie Stindle

Skyler Sullivan ... Adrian Denley



Bryonn Bain ... Larry Best, Actor

Michael Chmiel ... Vincent Sage, Actor

Dave Gold ... Sound Guy

David S. Gold ... Dave

John Heinlein ... Woodcutter

Wendy Herlich ... Marci Martin

LaKeith Hoskin ... Kevin Rumple

Laurissa James ... M.J. the Cinematographer

Margaret Maloney ... Margie, Actor

J. Elaine Marcos ... Jill

Joseph R. McConnell .. Student Extra

Dan O'Neil ... Dan, Actor

Chandra Thomas ... Candy Carmella

External links

• Filmic Achievement Official Website
• Authentic Films
• Rick Lopez Cinematpgraphy
• Dennis Lewin Music