NEUTRAL
*Winner of Top Grit Award at Indie Grits Film Festival*
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Neutral, available here for the first time on DVD, is a unique and frequently hilarious film that has captured the attention of various Southeast festivals (Indie Grits awarded it the best-of-fest Top Grit award in 2008) and film pundits (Mountain Xpress' Ken Hanke says it "mingles the mundane with the casually surreal and occasional flights of pure fantasy…Chang’s loopy narrative manages to catch something of the quirky quality of the place of its origin: Asheville"), as well as like-minded filmmakers like John Cameron Mitchell, (Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Shortbus) who dubbed it "beautifully written and bursting with sweet sympathy for its whimsical characters."

Told in a series of loosely-knit vignettes that range from quiet naturalism to absurdist extremes (examples of scenes include the shadows of a boy and girl discussing the favorite shapes they become, a chance encounter between a young woman and the author of her life, and a father taking his family trip far out of the way to return a friend's five pack of diet soda), Neutral is an absorbing cross-section of human connections lost and found through a shared artistic curiosity. The story's ambition is matched by the scope of its production, casting over 70 Asheville-area residents, mostly non-actors, to take part in a constantly shifting focus, all inventively shot on beautiful 16mm by director of photography Greg Hudgins.

Joe raised the bread to make it on film through a year of truckbed living, 2 jobs, and a steady diet of peanut butter and banana sandwiches. Shot in August of 2006, the small 7-person crew lived and worked out of a warehouse/compound building in downtown Asheville, sleeping on the floor and taking showers in a converted utility sink.

The Filmmakers:
Joe Chang...................Writer/Director/Producer
Aubrey Curtis...............Producer
John Ferrer..................Producer
Jack Schram................AD/Coproducer
Greg Hudgins...............Cinemafotogapher
Nathan Whiteside..........Editor

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