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INTRODUCTIONWe would like to thank you for your interest in GoNzO by A-Level Pictures, Inc. The information available to potential investors includes but is not limited to a Budget and a treatment of the concept for the improved screenplay. After reviewing this information we are confident that you will find this film is unique and powerful and a story that needs to be told. For over the span of a lifetime this sorted group of the most eccentric and diverse friends, born and raised on the streets of Los Angeles, lived it up and partied it down creating bonds, brotherhood and enemies in the world and each other. This resulted in each of these friends wandering different ways over the last decade. We now reunite this intriguing group for an all out journey using public transportation to the limit of experience in a border town named Tijuana, Mexico just a skip away from the U.S.A. We will explore four realms here as we introduce this new way of making a feature film to the world… OVERVIEW OF THE FILMGoNzo is a style of reportage, filmmaking, or any form of multimedia production in which the reporter, filmmaker or author is intrinsically enmeshed with the subject action (rather than being a passive observer). The style was popularized by Hunter S. Thompson and thrives to this day. The trials and tribulations of killing a friendAn underlining plot of this film is new to the concept of filmmaking. The entire cast of friends will not know of the outcome of the final fact. In the story of the film takes place in real time after our main character (Roho) has discovered that his sister’s recent heroin addiction and death from over dose, was all due to his friend (Brail) who got her hooked on the junk. Roho is now going to travel with Brail and his friends to Tijuana with the plan seeking revenge by secretly murdering Brail. Bringing along an acquaintance to the group, Roho has secretly hired a killer who will commit the murder in the streets of the shady border town. It will not be until the last ten minutes of this film will our audience, or even the group on set and in the feature (including cast), know of the final scene of the film… until it is too late… and it is all caught on tape in its reality. THE TRIP… THE FILM… THE SUMMARYJ.Roho; a Southern California Native, goes on a trip with a group of his closest friends who were born and raised in Hollywood, California. These colorful, troublemakers take an epic and adventurous journey to Tijuana, Mexico via the California public transportation system to discover the city’s urban myths and legends over 24 real but surreal hours. After heavy drinking on several trains that take them down the coast of Southern California, they catch up and break down as we follow this posse through the extensive stroll up and down the last feet of the United States. Passing graffiti ridden walls and turnstile gates, they journey into the upside-down world of Tijuana. We follow our group through the first time experiences of going to Matador, Luchador, Pelota and sleazy bars. Memories, cheap thrills and weird chills are some of the surreal life they find in Tijuana, and prove more then they ever expected. The thrill for the audience is “can this town even handle them?” After walking the back streets of town showing the Tijuana lifestyle of eccentric gifts, cheap bear, unknown meat tacos and great tastes, the day turns to dusk and these explorers begin a night in an illicit town of hardcore partying and soon are lost in an urban myth jungle. They seek out the truth of the town’s risqué night on Cinco de Mayo when the city is a blaze with night life. Cheap beers and women make the night into a trip gone wild. Through these 24 hours our group of friends are thrown though a lifetime of experience and the knowledge of what it is like to go over the border, cross the line and then try to come back. This is GoNzO. A group of eccentric youth living life to the edge in front of the lens.We will reunite
this group for an epic journey diving deep into their ways,
life styles, thoughts and feelings. We
will find out if such a diverse group of young minds can keep
it together over 24 hrs and bring back the unity they all once
shared as a group… or will they tear each other down
to nothing on a ride down through memory lane and show the
world why they can’t stand each other? TALENT A-Level Pictures, Inc. has assembled an awesome collection of talent for the creation of this film. The principal creative team can be accessed on our web site at www.alevelpictures.com. After an extensive audition schedule, we have secured incredible talent for the lead and supporting roles. We have many recognized actors secured for the project to perform cameos. OVER A DECADE OF STORIES, FIGHTS AND FRIENDSHIPGoNzO Character and Cast breakdown:
5' 10" Italian, Russian/Jew, 29 years old. Brown
hair, auburn eyes, and muscular build. The most important
and powerful pleasure of life is the sincerity of love, confidence
of being loved, and the passion of loving. J's soul places
that philosophy in absolute fashion with everything that he
encounters, pursues or meets in life. J' is a man whom
has such an inspiring and driving work ethic that once you
meet him you will adapt his same ideals in all aspects of your
life as well. He even is on the cutting edge of style before
it’s the mainstream trend. I swear to god that
this person truly exists in our world and his name is J. Roho.
5' 8" Aryan/Jew
28 years old. Blond pomp hair, slate blue eyes, skinny and
scrawny.
5" 10" Mexican/German
29 years old. Dark brown hair, green eyes, stocky build. 5' 10" Greek 34 years old. Bald head, blue eyes, skinny build. Phil is the modern day version of Oliver Twist. His father was a petty criminal from Greece, who abandoned him and his mother when he was a child. After that he was usually more alone than not, which explained his compulsions. His mom was the type usually occupied with a more self-absorbed priority, like pining over loser boyfriends. That left him with a gang-load of issues. If they were packaged up and bricked they'd stock a warehouse to the ceiling . . . maybe with a stamp of a fish on it. You know those algae suckers, the kind that follow sharks around. . . raw uncut waste that nobody wanted. He is the definition of clingy and spastic. He will over drink, over analyze, and over tax most things while taking them to the border. He is the first to go over the line of extreme rationality and actions. He runs his life on emotions and those run him wild. www.myspace.com/phylonious • Petey (Peter)6' 3" Egyptian 32 years old. Dreadlocks. Brown eyes, tall and lanky. A tall big goofball full of love and hate… eccentric is an understatement for he is as bold minded as any Egyptian you ever met. He is a worrywart and an egomaniac. Being proud of who he is and what he thinks, Petey is the first to tell his side of things. He is eccentric and very deep in his own issues and shows it off with confidence like he’s one of the most outspoken people when it comes to an opinion. Once you get Peter going he wont stop until he either gets you to see his point or gets pissed off and goes on a rant and rage. The softest hard-ass you will ever meet. As you can see this is a very diverse group of friends that have known each other over a decade. This amazing story will be driven by people so deep in personality, character and wit, they will engross the audience by revealing their souls. Trials and tribulations over the past have torn this group apart and brought them together many times before. After years of anger, resentment, epic times and trouble, these friends will make one last attempt at being close again. The first time
Tijuana, Mexico
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