"...Not As I Do"
A Made-For-TV film as part of the non-commercial film project Sleepless, by Vertov Industries
Social & External
The people behind it
Janice Rieger
Albert Fung
Hou Hsiao-Hsien JR.
Cara Elise Ragragola
Jonathan Allen
Jeanne Lewis
Carol Tagawa
Colette Fish
Christopher Kendrick-Stafford
Joni Antonia
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Four people are sitting in a library, drinking wine and reading. Sometimes they talk a little.
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A girl from New York attends a college in Atlanta to join their once-famous marching band.
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An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.
A group of hip retro teenage outsiders become involved in an interschool bowling rivalry.
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