Eszterhas wrote the film that is loosely based on his own childhood in a Hungarian immigrant family. He and his wife, Naomi, were here for the opening, along with film director Guy Ferland and one of the stars, Maximilian Schell. It was shot here over 24 days last August. The Film Festival runs through March 23. It's a Cleveland Signstage Theatre production, and it plays the Brooks Theatre of Cleveland Play House through March 29.
Wild cats take on the greedy developers.
The story comes from Santa Fe, N. Mex., folklore. That's Mow's home territory. Mow trained at the National Theatre of the Deaf. Like other Signstage works, this one is both spoken and signed by deaf and hearing actors, who Mow says have been given a lot of freedom in the creation of their characters. Now that is one complex piece of art and reality.