10 K

10 K

2017

Written and Directed by NEIL LABUTE

With CLEA ALSIP and J.J. KANDEL

World Premiere | February 7, 2017 (Santa Barbara International Film Festival)

AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER | 2017 Maui Film Festival

Running Time: 19 Minutes (Black & White)

Filmed on location in Teatown Lake Reservation, Ossining, NY

A man and a woman meet on a wooded path while on a nature walk. Is it an accident or something planned? Is it the first time or the hundredth? 10 K is a suburban mystery shot through with humor and tension and desire.

Neil LaBute began working in film in 1997 with his feature debut, In the Company of Men, which made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival.The film went on to win the Filmmaker Trophy as well as the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best First Feature. In addition to Sundance, it screened at the Cannes, Edinburgh, New Directors/New Films, London and Deauville Film Festivals and won two Independent Spirit Awards.

Following In the Company of Men, LaBute established himself as a playwright and film & television writer/director.  Among his films are Your Friends and Neighbors, Nurse Betty, The Shape of Things, Lakeview Terrace, Some Velvet Morning, Dirty Weekend and the upcoming Out Of The Blue.  In television, he has created two series for DirecTV, ten x ten (a collection of filmed monologues) and Billy & Billie (a half-hour comedy starring Adam Brody). LaBute also served as showrunner on the series Van Helsing, which ran for five seasons on SYFY.

Off-Broadway: Neil LaBute's The Way We Get By (Second Stage) and 10K (59e59), Ping Pong (The Public Theater), Sarah Ruhl's Stage Kiss (Playwrights Horizons), Sex of the Baby (Access Theater), Wide Awake Hearts (59e59). Regional: Steel Magnolias, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Bucks County Playhouse); The Killing of Sister George (Long Wharf Theatre); Clybourne Park (Dorset Theatre Festival, Barrington Stage); ‪Lewis Black's One Slight Hitch (George Street Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival); The Show Off (Westport); Brace Yourself (Berkshire Theatre Group); Six Degrees of Separation (Williamstown); The Motherf****r with the Hat (TheaterWorks Hartford).   Film/TV: Billy & Billie, Boardwalk Empire, Expecto Patron, Seclusion, Hunter&Game, The Little Tin Man. Education: BA, Stanford University; MFA, NYU Graduate Acting. www.cleaalsip.com

Film and television credits include The Mulberry Bush (Tribeca Film Festival); Chuck with Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts; Zero Dark Thirty and The Hurt Locker (Best Picture 2010) both directed by Academy Award® winner Kathryn Bigelow; We Need To Talk About Kevin; Billie & Billy (DirecTV); and Law & Order (NBC).

New York theater credits include 10 K written and directed by Neil LaBute; The Mulberry Bush by Neil LaBute directed by Maria Mileaf; Falling Short and Jonathan’s Blaze both directed by Academy Award® and Golden Globe® winner Alexander Dinelaris; The Killing (World Premiere) by William Inge; Sundance directed by Matthew Penn; Intermission by Will Eno; and The Great Pretenders directed by Billy Hopkins with Amy Irving. Kandel is an actor member of Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City, SAG-AFTRA, and Actors’ Equity Association.