Summer film features Granite City man
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Granite City High School graduate Shawn D. Holt, foreground, stars in “Steel City G.C.,” an independent film shot entirely in Granite City in partnership with Phoenix-Jagger Studios and Red Reflection Industrial Ink, the latter owned by southern Illinois filmmaker Elle Mercurio-Cherrier. “Steel City G.C.” is scheduled for release July 4.For The TelegraphShow MoreShow Less
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Elle Mercurio-Cherrier’s 2019 feature film “In this Gray Place” is having a delayed debut because it was in the film festival circuit. It’s now available online at https://vimeo.com. “In this Gray Place” focuses on a man barricaded in a rest stop restroom after a robbery gone wrong.For The TelegraphShow MoreShow Less
As the coronavirus pandemic and political turmoil drag on into the new year, the related stress is exacerbating mental health issues such as anxiety and
Riverbend filmmaker has 4 new projects
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HARTFORD A filmmaker who created a movie in Hartford last year now has four online film projects.
In 2019, Elle Mercurio-Cherrier used the Lewis and Clark State Historic Site in Hartford as the setting for her horror film “Claimed” set in 1857. The film had its Illinois debut in February at the historic site in Hartford.
More than 250 people worked on the film, which she said also was a metaphor for the hundreds of thousands of heroin addicts who go missing in the U.S. every day.
“Most people assume drug addiction is the result of a bad childhood or sustained exposure to drug use by others,” she said. “Sometimes it’s the consequence of prescription drug use that spirals out of control.”