The O.G.S
Sometimes you just have to take matters into your own hands!
Trailer
THE OGS TRAILER 06-03-2024
Our story
I made this film because my friends are great actors who were only being offered challenging roles but limited to topics like losing a spouse, terminal illness, and dementia. Even though they are all important topics, my friends' talents were and are more significant than that! The film also centers on a crime, a type of burglary that is at epidemic proportions in the country that victimizes people by preying on their good nature as they are trying to help a person out who is at their front door while other criminals are robbing their home at the back door.
Cast & Crew
Tom Cavanaugh - Writer/Director
Tom Cavanaugh received his MFA in playwriting from the Actors Studio Drama School in 2000. Tom's full-length play, BEHOLD, was a 2010 finalist for the New American Playwrights Program at the Utah Shakespeare Festival and won a 2011 Pickering Award for Excellence in Playwriting. ADAM & YOSHI was a finalist in the McKinney Repertory Play Competition, TX, and a finalist in the 2013 New American Playwrights Program Utah Shakespeare Festival 2014. INLAND EMPRESS, another full-length play, world premiered in Los Angeles. THE FIELD, a short play by Cavanaugh, premiered at The CTI Theatre Festival in Independence, MO. In 2018, the Theatre of Action in Los Angeles’s Plays About Immigration listed Tom’s short play, COYOTE. Tom won the Artists & Playwright Festival at The KNOW Theatre in Binghamton, NY, in 2018 with his short play, ROCKS ON THE PLAYA. Tom’s screenplay version of BEHOLD won Best Feature Screenplay at the 2020 Bowery Film Festival in NY. In 2021, during the Pandemic Lockdown, Tom wrote, produced, and directed the Zoom show, NOW, NOW, NOW…, which performed in more than five Fringe Festivals, winning Best National Show at the Pittsburgh Fringe, Best Live-Stream Show at the Big Sky Fringe, an Ovation Award at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, and recently was nominated for a Maverick Movie Award at the Maverick Movie Festival in London. NOW, NOW, NOW… combines the acting of 19 actors from New York City to Los Angeles from within their Covid-safe homes in one Zoom show. In 2022, Tom’s short film, SERVICE ME, won Best North American Short Film at the New York Independent Cinema Awards, Best Short Short at the New York Long Island Film Festival, and Best Relationship Short Film at the Silicon Beach Film Festival in Hollywood, California. Tom’s play ADAM & YOSHI made its World Premiere in Hong Kong, China, on December 1st, 2022, with the Wedraman Theater Company. Tom’s short screenplay AMERICAN ONRYO, a Horror Short, was a Finalist for Best Short Screenplay at the International Filmmaker Festival in New York and won Best Short Screenplay at the 2023 Night of Drama Film Festival in Milan, Italy. Tom was one of ten playwrights chose for the 2023 Play Lab at the William Inge Theatre Festival where they developed his one act play WHEN THEY MET, a short play that explores the first-time meeting of J.D. Salinger and Ernest Hemingway.
Tom is a member of We Make Movies Film Collective, The Actors Gym, Naked Angels, and The New Ambassadors Theater Company all developmental companies in New York City. Tom has been a member of the Dramatists Guild of America since 1998
Bob Telford
"Smitty"
Bob Telford, an award-winning actor/director has spent the last 43 years working in theater, commercials, TV & Film. A veteran of the 70’s LA improv scene, early acting gigs included voice work for Disney Children’s records division and The Dr. Demento Show. TV credits include “Parks and Recreation”, “Roseanne”, “Reasonable Doubts” and “Young & The Restless”. Film credits include “Annabelle Comes Home”, “Butterfly Caught”.
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Christine DiTillio
"Edna"
Christine DiTillio has been involved in indie films one way or another ever since she moved to Los Angeles from Chicago. Her acting resume has expanded to include writer, producer, BTS photographer and various other crew responsibilities when necessary. She's currently in two films, The Book Club and (award winning) Easy To Scare, that are making the film festival circuit. Working on the OGs was a fun project that brought together wonderfully gifted artists she originally met through the We Make Movies film collective. Being in the company of talented, zany, enthusiastic movie makers sparks much joy in her heart.
Robert DiTillio
"Geno"
Robert DiTillio began his acting career in New York City where he appeared in off-off Broadway plays, independent films, soap operas and music videos. In Hollywood, he made guest appearances on TV shows including Babylon 5, Sliders, General Hospital, NYPD Blue and others, as well as acting in indy films such as Dragon Fighter and The Mean One. He’s also a writer, director and producer. His film, Easy To Scare, won an award for its screenplay followed by the honor of receiving Best Horror Short at the Golden State Film Festival. Robert had a fun-filled time working on The O.G.s with his friends!
Victoria Ippolito
"Jasmine"
Chris Narrie
"Duardo"
Dir. Photography
Victoria has loved acting ever since she first stepped foot on a stage. She was luckily enough to attend performing arts magnet schools throughout her early education and continued honing her craft ever since. After graduating USC with her degree in theatre, she has pursued a professional acting career starring in numerous shorts, commercials, and feature films.
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