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'The Paper Store' is a 2016 drama film directed by Nicholas Gray, and written by Gray and Katharine Clark Gray, adapted from the latter's play '516'. The film is produced by Jonathan Gray, John Grossman ('NYPS'), and casting director Bonnie Timmermann and stars Stef Dawson, Penn Badgley, and Richard Kind.

Synopsis



A revenge tale about a former college student who forges essays for money, the grad student who becomes her lover, and the professor who discovers their scheme.

Cast



* Stef Dawson as Annalee Monegan

* Penn Badgley as Sigurd Rossdale

* Richard Kind as Professor Marty Kane

* [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4538513/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t4 Clifton Dunn] as Hooper

* [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2790561/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t5 Caitlin Mehner] as Emily

* [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5215993/?ref_=tt_cl_t6 Kenton Cummings] as Reynaldo

* Patrick Hogue as Bishop

Production



'The Paper Store' is a film adaptation of Katharine Clark Gray's play '516 (five-sixteen)', workshopped at the New York International Fringe Festival in 2007, with four out of five stars on Time Out (magazine). '516' received its first professional debut through Philadelphia Theater Workshop in 2010, culminating in plans to adapt the play into a film shortly thereafter.

Katharine and her husband, Nicholas Gray, were producing partners at A Chip & A Chair Films (If You Could Say It In Words) for eight years before branching off to create Uncompromised Creative. The company partnered with producers Jonathan Gray, Bonnie Timmermann, John Grossman, executive producer Bruce Meyerson, and co-executive producers Actium Pictures and Matthew Bronson, to make 'The Paper Store,' Uncompromised Creative's feature debut.

Filming took place in New York City and Syracuse, NY. The interiors of all three leads' homes were shot on the re-decorated apartment sets from Broad City (2014).

Release



Video on-demand-rights were licensed by Flix Premiere. The film was released on June 9, 2017 in the United States and June 17 in the United Kingdom. On July 24, 2018 the movie became widely available via Amazon and iTunes on V.O.D., with DVD release to follow on October 9, 2018.

Reception



* Named Best Drama of 2016 by the LA Film Review. The review called the script "expertly adapted" from its source material, and declared that the film "gives us a world that is far from black and white one where its really easy to claim high standards, while simultaneously betraying them with the most plausible of explanations."

* The Manchester Evening News named 'The Paper Store' as one of the "six best films you have to see" of the Manchester Film Festival, and FranklyMyDear UK described it as "the ultimate tale of romance and revenge set in academia."

* [http://thefilmstage.com The Film Stage] said that "few narrative films have touched on [the rising cost of higher education] so pointedly or deftly as 'The Paper Store".'

Accolades



;2016

* Manchester International Film Festival, with a Jury Special Mention for Lead Actor (Penn Badgley).

* Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival

* Manhattan Film Festival - named Best Dramatic Feature

* Oxford International Film Festival official awarded [http://www.oxiff.com/awards Best Actress] to Stef Dawson and [http://www.oxiff.com/awards Best Actor] to Penn Badgley

* [http://www.newfilmmakers.com/ New Filmmakers NY]

* Fort Worth Indie Film Showcase - won Best Foreign Drama, "foreign" referring to productions outside Texas

* [http://www.pghindie.com/2016_Schedule.html Pittsburgh Independent Film Festival]

References




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