Time Winters: A Gun, A Car, A Blonde; The Little Princess; Steal Big, Steal Little; Doc Hollywood; LA Story; Gremlins II; Sneakers; Defending Your Life; Radio Days; Melrose Place; Picket Fences; Murder She Wrote; many others.

Hisham Abed has shot numerous features in addition to Pitstop, among them Natural History of Parking Lots (Strand Releasing), which was awarded first place in both the Stockholm and the Turin Intl. Film Festivals, and garnered the LA Times Top Ten Critics Choice; and Ambush of Ghosts, on which he operated for Judy Irola, winner of Best Cinematography at Sundance that year. A USC grad, Hisham’s other credits include Additional Photography on Academy-Award nominee Chicks in White Satin, photographic work documenting relief efforts in the Middle East, and a recent stint at the Sundance Filmmaker’s Lab as one of four DP’s invited to attend.

Sean Murray has created scores for numerous features and shorts, as well as series television (Buffy the Vampire Slayer). Among his feature credits are Devil’s Playground and One Way Out (Arrow Entertainment).

Erica Daborn is an accomplished painter, graduate of London's Royal College of Art. She is currently teaching at Boston’s Museum School. She is also co-manager of Highway Five Productions. Pitstop is her first venture into feature filmmaking.

Cob’s credits include dozens of television documentaries for PBS, Discovery, History, Biography, and other cable channels. A writer and filmmaker himself, currently working at WGBH Boston, he also edits for independent filmmakers and commercial concerns in the Boston area.

Ms. Peters has done extensive costume design for Welsh and English television, as well as for a variety of feature work, from the British indie Just Like a Woman to RPM, a recent co-production starring David Arquette, to the recent television miniseries Tess.

Pitstop

A Highway Five Production

A Film by Dennis Lanson

TIME WINTERS
BETSY WALTON
PAULINA MIELECH
PHILIP HOWE
PHILLIP LENKOWSKY
JOVIN MONTANERO
SUSAN RENO
and
PAIGE ROWLAND

Costume Designer
Suzy Peters

Production Designer
Erica Daborn

Music
Sean Murray

Edited by
Cob Carlson
and
Dennis Lanson

Director of Photography
Hisham Abed

Written, Directed and Produced by
Dennis Lanson

CAST

(in order of appearance)

Time Winters............................ Floyd Bach
Sam Gallici............................... Hitman
Phillip Howe.............................. Grif Morgan
Ann Pemberton......................... Lady Dawn DeAngelo
Susan Reno.............................. Rhonda Rulvac
Betsy Walton............................ Amanda
Gina LaPiana............................ Rita
Robert Clements....................... Clint the Chef
Phillip Lenkowsky...................... Max
Paige Rowland.......................... Julie Rohr
David Koff................................ Attendant/Mechanic
Time Winters............................ Dick Rulvac
Jovin Montanaro........................ Danny Fox
Paulina Mielech......................... Esther
Tater....................................... Cowboy
Tom Paliferro............................ Motel Clerk
Nico Lanson.............................. Girl in Pool
Suzy Peters.............................. Bar Tender
Kirk Warb................................. Officer Chance
Brad Sargent............................ Cop
Cameron McIntyre..................... Cop
Julio Zamarripa......................... Latin Man in Plane

Line Producers
Isabelle Bourduas
Ron Lavery

Production Managers
Cameron McIntyre
Bruce Spears

Assistant Directors
Bruce Spears
Jessica Wethington

Script Supervisor
Scott Lipman

Casting
Lee Faulkner
Daniel Rogers

Art Direction
Julianne Getman

Makeup & Hair
Justin Ditter
Karla Carrion
Gwen Lavery
Christa McCarthy

Post-Production Supervision
Rod Bingaman
Maura Shea

Associate Producer
Amy Scott Boudnitskii

Crew

Additional & Underwater Photography
Sal Aridi

Second Unit Camera
Drew Neerdaels
Cynthia Pusheck

First Assistant Camera
Sanjay Kapoor

Second Assistant Camera
Senem Duruel
Brian Haigh
Barbara Neerdaels
Peter Palm

Gaffer
Sal Aridi

Best Girl
Lynda Cohen

Electric
Marco Hoffman
Butch Lavery
John Leonetti
Kim Leonetti
Takaji Murata

Key Grip
Brian Gray

Grips
George Gund
Sandy Sabatine

Sound Recording
Steve Morrow
Doug Hurt

Boom Operators
Jay Katz
Sirdjan Dobic

Additional Picture Editing
Thomas Makowski
Don McConnell

Assistant Editors
Matt Gertman
Brittany Gravely
Matt Rouillard

Dialogue Editor
Maura Shea

Foley Editor
Rod Bingaman

Music Editor
Rod Bingaman

Foley Assistants
Lorey Peterson
Elda Collier

Second AD
Brad Sargent

Second Unit Script
Jonathan Wyche

Videotap
Christine Johnson

Art Dept. PA
Tina Immamura

Production Assistants
Danielle Koenig
Mark Oderman
Zaryan Zaidi

Special Thanks
Jim Ares, Polk Center, Phillips Academy, Andover MA
Linda Benjamin
Boston University Dept. Film and TV
Cob Carlson
Erica Daborn
Richard Dennison
Roger Director & Jan Cherubim
Karl Francis
Paul Gertman
Peter Huston, Horizon Media
Chuck Kemmerer, Fotokem
John Kiehl, Soundtrack, NY
Ethel Lanson
Jimmy (god bless his rig) Lewis
Rick Saunders, The Urban Group
Joel Shames
Kelly Simpson, Panavision
Lauren Shuler-Donner

Thanks to
Sam Lu
Budweiser
Patrick Coppola
Stuart TV
Santa Barbara Vending and Video
Ojai Valley News
Dick's Last Resort, Santa Barbara
Green and Yellow Basket, Santa Barbara
The Coffee Grinder, Carpinteria, CA
Fran Pucinelli
Contemporary Arts Forum, SB
Rita Ferri
Dane Goodman
Marie Shoeff
Katie Upton & Steve Benner
WH Dibblee
Janice and Mordecai Kormandel
Robert Esau
Jim Bauer
Steve Batzell
Julia Ford
Gloria Zimmerman
Peter Marcucci
Lawrence Novitch
Julia Jones
Arledge Armenaki
Marcy Roth
Jonathan Drexler
John Carozza
Mike Crouse
Earl Clarke
Derek Kolus
Carol Akerson
Konrad Makowski
Thomas Makowski
Michael Oakes
Curt and Judy Goller & the staff of the Cuyama Buckhorn
Thomas Daniel
Bernard and Nancy Shunfenthal
Hilde Sweeney
Gerald Lanson
Paul and Stephanie Hackbarth
Robert Yeomans
Bill and Lois Andrews
Leslie Apt
Hedi Apt
Ruth Van Collie
Buzz Spector & Njara Stout
Margaret and Jim Sparks
Beverly Naidus
Rob Todd

Lab
Fotokem

Legal
Joel Shames, Shames & Litwin

Online
Multivision, Boston

Neg Cut
Rennie Johnson & Association

  Pitstop Trailer

Pitstop Cast & Credits                 Pitstop Photos

Pitstop Director's Notes                 Pitstop Screenings

Pitstop Director's Web Site

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