Fresh Bread
Fresh Bread Productions, Inc. is a 501c3 not-for profit company that produces theatre and film to reflect and effect social consciousness. Fresh Bread has received grants from Bravo Television, Illinois Art Council, State Farm, The Harmon Grant, and Cablevision. NYC Fresh Bread Productions credits include Savage in Limbo by John Patrick Shanley at The Producers Club, and Rant directed by Peggy Davis at the Public Theatre, The Cherry Lane Theatre, and others which benefited Safe Horizon Battered Women Shelters. Currently, Fresh Bread is producing the film Using with Phenom Features, which will benefit Salvation Army Safe Harbour Shelters, for which proceeds from Kymberly Harris’ play Roses Turn went last summer, as well as Teen Challenge furthering their cause of raising awareness to the epidemic of teen addiction and recovery. Artistic Director, Kymberly Harris is an award-winning actress and playwright who’s Fresh Bread Productions started with an ensemble of MFA graduates of the Actors Studio Drama School in NYC. She is the founder and Artistic Director of TheatresCool, a professional training ground for beginning, aspiring, and professional actors, at risk and special needs youth.
Phenom Features is a collection of passionate cinematic artists dedicated to the creation of provocative,visionary independent motion pictures. At the heart of their mission is the bold vision of an APPRENTICESHIP STUDIO, a place where gifted creative artists, young and old, can learn, discover and grow. Together with Fresh Bread Productions, Phenom Features will be creating an independent motion picture written and directed by Thomas Quinn, and cast featuring talented students and aspiring screen artists in Bloomington, Chicago, and Central Illinois, working side-by-side with movie-making professionals Thomas Quinn, Kymberly Harris, and more. “USING” is a feature-length drama about loving deception and a father’s desperate fight to save his only daughter from self-destruction. 22-year-old Gwen McNeil is the out-of-control daughter of real estate magnate Edward “Eddy” McNeil. Gwen’s father devises an elaborate and deceitful scheme to rescue her from the streets of Chicago, but if his plot is uncovered it could cost him his daughter. “USING” is a cautionary tale of addiction, betrayal and unlikely redemption, which asks the impossible question, “How far would you go to save a dying child?”
Post Production Update!
Hello Friends and Fans of Using!
Using has had such an incredible year and we are very excited to share with you what we have been up to since wrapping production in 2010.
Our great news begins with the Illinois Prairie Community Foundation awarding us the Mirza Arts Grant! They make it possible for organizations like ourselves to custom-design our project to reflect our charitable goals and interests.
With this grant, we have hired John Bosher and Chris Charles of Beverly Ridge Pictures for our post-production supervision! Beverly Ridge Pictures, LLC is an Emmy® Award-winning production company dedicated to creating film and television with the highest production value. We have been working closely with them every day in order to ensure Using is being developed into the best film it can be, and reflecting the important story we are sharing with our audience.
These steps are very important to the completion of the film we have all worked so hard to make and are very excited for what 2012 has in store! Thank you very much for your continued support of the project and look forward to sharing the completed film with you soon!
Sincerely,
Kymberly Harris, Artistic Director, Fresh Bread Prodcutions, Producer and Actor, Using
Thomas A. Quinn, Phenom Features, Director and Producer, Using
Fresh Bread Productions and Phenom Features needs your support! To make a TAX DEDUCTIBLE contribution to the making of this film please click the Donate button below. Thank You!
Fresh Bread Productions & Phenom Features Present
“An Evening with Terry O’Quinn – Benefit for Using”
Fresh Bread Productions and Phenom Features present “An Evening with Terry O’Quinn – Benefit for Using”. Come celebrate and raise funds for the production of the upcoming independent motion picture Using with writer and director, Thomas Quinn, the cast of the film as well as special guest actor Terry O’Quinn, recent Emmy nominee and character John Lock from Lost.
The event will be held on Saturday, July 31, 2010 at the Park West (322 West Armitage) from 8:00 pm -11:00 p.m. and will feature a vip red carpet entrance, hors d’oeuvres from Phil Stefani Catering, cocktails, a live performance by Aubyn Beth, bid on silent auction items such as tickets to The Emmy Awards, tickets to The Grammy Awards, tickets to Dancing with the Stars, vacations to tropical islands such as Grenada, Virgin Islands, The Grenadines, Nevis and Bonaire, vacations to Central American countries such as Peru and Belize, and a vacation to Bentwood Inn Ski Resort in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
VIP ticket holders will also mingle and have their photos taken with actor Terry O’Quinn, writer and director of Using, Thomas Quinn, and producer, Kymberly Harris.
Join in the PRE-event e-bay auction for a private dinner with Terry O’Quinn - start bidding now! Auction ends on July 30, 2010! The auction includes dinner for five (including Terry O’Quinn) at Gene and Georgetti Restaurant at 6:00pm and five tickets to the benfit at the Park West where you and your guests will meet Director Thomas Quinn, Producer Kymberly Harris, among others, while enjoying other event amenities.
*MUST BE 21 TO ATTEND
This is a benefit to raise money for Phenom Features pilot project, the film Using, a feature-length drama about loving deception and a father’s desperate fight to save his only daughter from self-destruction. The original screenplay is written by Illinois Wesleyan University professor Thomas Anthony Quinn. Kymberly Harris Fresh Bread Productions is producing the film. Harris is also acting inUsing. Harris is the Artistic Director of Fresh Bread Productions, a 501(c)(3) non-profit company. Using is a cautionary tale of addiction, betrayal and unlikely redemption, which asks the impossible question, ”How far would you go to save a dying child?” A portion of the proceeds from the film will go to Salvation Army Safe Harbor Shelters. The evening will feature cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, entertainment silent auction and a selected clips of the film. Host Committee Members: Kymberly Harris - Fresh Bread Productions Tom Quinn - Phenom Features Ruth Ratny - REEL Chicago Dean Williams - Founder of the Central IL Film Commission Gina Driskell - Subrosa Music, Ltd Joyce Saxon -Media Advertising Club Downtown Bloomington Association Julie Kubsch - Specs Around Town Tabitha Bock - Tabitha Bock Photography Hillel Frankel - EIP Group and Movietrax Michael Mach - MPI Rochelle Arjmand - Publicist Dr. Susan Arjmand Joey Majamdar - Special Guest Sponsor Dozzy Ibekwe - Bonsoiree Michael Foster - Seneca Hotels Tickets are $250 VIP, $125 general admission, and $50 student/industry rate with I.D (guests who purchase student/industry ticket will be asked to present student/industry I.D. at guest registration upon arrival at event) VIP tickets include a private reception with a meet and greet with the actors of the film as well as Terry O’Quinn. All tickets include cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, entertainment, silent auction and a sneak peek preview of the film! To purchase tickets for this event please visit: http://benefitforusing.eventbrite.com/
CALL (312)-988-9900 for more information or to order your tickets by phone today!
“An Evening with Terry O’Quinn – Benefit for Using” Photos!
