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Maurey Loeffler

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About Me


I'm a Toronto based independent filmmaker. My most recent film, 'Malcontents', a 20 minute short won a few awards and we plan to submit it to a few festivals. It features a great soundtrack by Douglas September (check out www.douglasseptember.com and buy his album 'Oil Tan Bow' on itunes) and one song from Gord Downie 'Insomniacs of the World Goodnight'. I wrote and directed 'Malcontents', which is about two brothers that work the night shift at a tow truck lot on New Years Eve and deal with a package found in the back of one of the cars in the lot.
'Sofa King Paranoid' (play below) was written, shot and editted in 48 hours. It was co-produced with Bill Hackenbrook and Craig Milne. Bill and I co-wrote and co-directed the film and Craig shot and edited the film. The film is about one man's comedic search for the truth after he finds a condom wrapper under his sofa cushion. The film features 3 songs by Alan Lee, who also plays the main character, Dawna Wright plays his wife. A talented musician and actor, Alan won best actor for this character at the 2005 Reel 48 Film Festival.
I'm writing a feature length script right now that I'm pitching in November. I'm 1st AD on several short films as well as shorts at the Canadian Film Centre. I also sit on the board of Group Therapy Productions, an independent collective of filmmakers that holds fundraisers and produces interesting, entertaining short low budget films.
I've also done some acting in the past and hope to continue that in the future. I've been the lead in numerous shorts and have trained with Cindy Tanas and Ginger Howard Friedman in Toronto. I write some over-indulgent self-absorbed poetry too (see blogs above).
I'm the male lead in 'Little Deaths', a short written by Peter Hajdu and directed by Shannon Paterson. I'm also the DP on 'Little Deaths', with Peter Hajdu and Craig Milne shooting when I'm in scenes. I was in a commercial for Gun Amnesty P.E.A.C.E. where I get shot and die in the hospital.
Other projects have included a commerical I wrote and produced and directed for TOTix and a music video I directed for Bobby Borzellino's 'Runaway'.
I hope to meet other filmmakers, musicians, makeup artists, wardrobe designers, producers, graphic artists, web designers to collaborate with on future projects. If you think our styles might sync, or if you simply 'like the cut of my jib', let me know. Craig Milne and I are also interested in producing music videos for independent artists in the Toronto area.
FILMOGRAPHY: 2005-2006 Productions I've worked on:
2005
Writer / Director on "Malcontents" Short film - Producer: Sam Krishnamoorthy / DP: Craig Milne
Co-Director, Co-writer on "Sofa King Paranoid" Short film - Co-Producers: Bill Hackenbrook, Craig Milne, Maurey Loeffler / Co-writers: Bill Hackenbrook, Maurey Loeffler / DP: Craig Milne, Maurey Loeffler
PA on "Anchor" CFC Short - Producer: Rechna Varma / Director: Vivieno Caldinelli / Writer: Josh Budd / DP: Wes Legge
PA on "Battle of the Bowels" CFC Short - Producer: Isabel Gomez-Moriana / Director: Marie Horodyski / Writer: Kathryn Mockler / DP: Arnold Caylakyan
PA on "Santa Trap" CFC Short - Producer: Alyson Richards / Director: Pascal Trottier / Writer: Josh Budd / DP: Samy Inayeh
Set Dec Assist on "Homewreckers" CFC Short - Producer: Kryssta Mills / Director: Vivieno Caldinelli / Writer: Patrick Tarr / DP: Keith Murphy
20061st AD on "Buds" CFC TV Teaser Trailer - Producer: Alyson Richards & Rechna Varma / Director: Sean Frewer / Writer: Travis McDonald / DP: Bartosz Pawlowski
1st AD on "Hope House" CFC TV Teaser Trailer - Producer: Alyson Richards & Rechna Varma / Director: Sean Frewer / Writer: Tanya Grout / DP: Bartosz Pawlowski
1st AD on "Close Study" CFC TV Teaser Trialer - Producer: Alyson Richards & Rechna Varma / Director: Sean Frewer / Writer: Crystal Wood / DP: Bartosz Pawlowski
1st AD on "The League" CFC TV Teaser Trailer - Producer: Alyson Richards & Rechna Varma / Director: Sean Frewer / Writer: Scott Oleszkowicz / DP: Bartosz Pawlowski
3rd AD on "Spoonfed" 35mm Unviersal Short - Producer: Isabel Gomez-Moriana & Stephanie Chapelle / Director: Marie Horodyski / Writer: Kathryn Mockler / Samy Inayeh
3rd AD on "Dogosaur" Bravo Fact Short - Producer: Alyson Richards & Jeff Kopas / Director: Jeff Kopas / Writer: Jeff Kopas / DP: Samy Inayeh
3rd AD on "Dogs Playing Poker"
1st AD on "White Wedding" - CFC Short - Director: Kelly Harms / Writer: Alexis Hillier / DP: Alex Dacev
1st AD on "Red Diamond" - CFC Short - Director: Kaare / Writer: Emma Roberts / DP: Bartosz Pawlowski
1st AD on "One Shrimp Kebab" - CFC Short - Writer-Director: David Rendall / Producer: Nicole Hilliard-Forde / DP: Kiarash Sadigh
1st AD on "Working Title" - CFC Short - Director: Susan Chiu / Producer: Ian Birkett / DP: Alex Dacev
1st AD on "8 Million Dollars" - Feature Length Film - Writer/Director: Tom Doganoglu / Producer: Amir Azimi / DP: Kiarash Sadigh
2007
1st AD on "Force of Nature" - Short Film - Writer/Director: Ryan Lee / Producers: Chantal LeBlanc-Everett, Michelle Lee / DP: Fraser Brown
Director/DP on "The Ugly Canadians" - TV Teaser Trailer - Writers/Producers: Julian , Rob
1st AD on "Love and other Reasons to Panic" - Feature Film - Writer/Director/Producer: Alberto Diamante / Producer: Michael Patrick / DP: Kiarash Sadigh (in Pre-Production)
Writer / Director on "Pooka" - Short Film - Producer: Chantal Leblanc-Everett / DP: Kiarash Sadigh (in Pre-Production)
I've begun research and writing on a feature film 'Jaxon' about my great-great uncle Honore Joseph Jaxon. My feature lenght script 'Wings of Despair' is coming together nicely. I'm shooting for completion by May.

My Interests

My passion is film. Currently I'm re-cutting a film I wrote and directed called 'Malcontents'; I am on the board of a film production group called 'Group Therapy Productions'. I became vegan in June. I worked in Architecture for 11 yrs; decided it wasn't for me. I love film, literature & hockey. I act, write & direct films, consume lots of music & read the occasional book (but it's getting hard to find the time). I love live music-Alternative Folk Rock-whatever that is?

I'd like to meet:

"...the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace things, but burn like fabulous roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue center light pop and everybody goes "AWWW!"
-Jack Kerouac
Friends from our film ''MALCONTENTS":
Friends from our film 'Sofa King Paranoid":

Music:

Douglas September (produced soundtrack for 'Malcontents' also check out 'Oil Tan Bow' on iTunes).Danny Michel, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Beck, Lenny Kravitz, Gord Downie, Hawksley Workman, Ani Difranco, Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Leonard Cohen, Morphine, Eric Clapton, Marvin Gaye, Martina Sorbara, Sarah Harmer, Norah Jones, Ben Folds, Lou Reed, RL Burnside, Bob Dylan, Randy Newman, Elvis Costello, Dave Matthews, David Wilcox, Lucinda Williams, Bright Eyes, Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam.

Movies:

The Proposition, American Gun, Head On, Crash, Magnolia, American Beauty, Ordinary People, Imaginary Heroes, The Ice Storm, Broken Wings, Happiness, Irreversible, Grand Canyon, Sweet Hereafter, Network, Igby Goes Down, Amores Perros, The Graduate, Short Cuts, Last Supper, Fight Club, Falling Down, Cable Guy, Shawshank Redemption, Snatch, Last Man Standing, Fistful of Dollars, Yojimbo, 12 Monkeys, Usual Suspects,Requiem for a Dream, Pulp Fiction, Cool Hand Luke, It's a Wonderful Life, Princess Bride, Amelie, Casablanca,Goin' Down the Road, Wings of Desire, Midnight Cowboy, Of Mice and Men, Taxi Driver, Heater, Adjuster, Last Wedding, Last Night, Swingers, Sideways, Se7en, Ghost World, Cinema Paradiso, Tigerland, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Girl Interupted, City of God, Gangs of New York, Broken Flowers, Fargo, We all Fall Down, The Departed, Collateral, Narc, Cop Land, Traffic, Run Lola Run, Gerry, Five Easy Pieces, Clerks, sex lies and videotape, History of Violence, Little Athens, George Washington, Brick, Water, A History of Violence and, Malcontents. ;-)

Television:

The Daily Show, Dead Like Me, Boston Legal, Weeds, Hockey Night in Canada, Inside the Actors Studio, Family Guy, Corner Gas.

Books:

Fountainhead, Midnight's Children, Collected Works of Billy the Kid, In Our Time, Pillars of the Earth, Memnoch the Devil, Lolita, Red Harvest,Sex Drugs & Cocoa Puffs, Eunoia and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.

Heroes:

My parents. Martin Scorsese, Atom Egoyan, Norm Jewison, Paul Haggis, David Cronenberg, PT Anderson, Todd Solondz, Robert Altman, Sidney Lumet, Jon Stewart and my Great-Great Uncle Honore Joseph Jaxon.

My Blog

Ecollywood 07 during TIFF - Sept.11 at Club V in Yorkville by Maurey Loeffler and Choroid Films

Hey eco-troopers!!!!!As you know, Ecollywood 07 is fast approaching. It's time to really get the word out to everyone you know. This will be THE party to catch on the festival circuit. Let loose and f...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:54:00 GMT

Exciting month ahead

Update Just a quick update f...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 21:10:00 GMT

BABEL

It always begins with a dream, or maybe with that Tower of Babel. Did we set it up, only to knock it down? I thought the sky was within reach, but we were given a different set of plans. If youre afr...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:07:00 GMT

Merry Contrary Christmas Everyone!!!!!

Hello, Happy Holidays. I've decided to begin celebrating all holidays on the opposite side of the year. I believe this will alleviate some of the pressure and commercialism that comes with these day...
Posted by on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 08:07:00 GMT

DamNation: State Program

        DamNation:          State Program Won over              &nb...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Jan 2006 01:29:00 GMT

City Park Bench

  city park city park bench park city park city       To the North: the Church       &n...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Jan 2006 01:18:00 GMT

Liquid Vessel - Thanks Mr. Cohen

Liquid Vessel     But I lingered on her thighs a fatal moment I kissed her lips as though I thirsted still She is the vessel of the whole wide world Mistress, oh mistress, of us all...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Jan 2006 23:45:00 GMT

Spent - Thanks Mr. Orbison

(Spent, the crumpled wet napkin                              &...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Jan 2006 23:19:00 GMT

Grey Matters to a Silver Vessel

Grey Matters to a Silver Vessel   Amid the stench of dead leaves and whiskey vomit everything falls into place on the wooden park bench.   The fingerless glove wields the slender s...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Jan 2006 23:13:00 GMT

Cannibals

Cannibals at Work We eat our young, We let strangers under the influence of a clock-work-a-day-world raise our offspring and wonder why they get tangled up in infanticide lies with a sid...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Jan 2006 02:14:00 GMT