Character Close-Up: Young Marian

Dear Diary,

Today I visited this awful place that I will never return to as long as I live. For my camp fire girl troop we have to get a certain number of points before we receive a community service patch. I am only 3 away! To get my three last points I had to take flowers to some nursing home in the city. I thought the only thrill on this trip was going to be the bus ride, but boy was I wrong. I brought a flower because you get an extra point. I thought I could just drop off the flowers when I got there and then leave, but the women at the front desk took me down to a room at the end of a creepy hallway. When the door cracked open the smell of rotten eggs and mints leaked into the hall. Eww. Then this scary woman grabbed my arm and pulled me inside. She kept asking me all these questions, but all I wanted to do was leave.



I finally ended up escaping from the room and got to come home. I hated that place. The women were all alone in rooms that looked like jail cells. I hope that I never find myself in that type of situation, it would be my greatest fear.

P.S. I found out that Jon told Linda that he thought I looked cute today at school!

Love,

Marian

Thank You!

With the ongoing support from our fans, Visit of Charity has made it into many upcoming film festivals. These festivals include:

Sundance- January 17-27
Santa Monica International Film Festival- August 8-10
Ojai Film Festival- October 12-15

For more information on locations and how to purchase tickets to these festivals, simply click on the links listed above.

A number of events will take place at these festivals that you won’t want to miss out on. During festivals a number of promotional items will be passed out such as buttons, bumper stickers, magnets, and postcards. These will have codes on the back that you can enter in at our Visit of Charity website for the chance to see all of the artists from our soundtrack live. If you haven’t burned the soundtrack yet you should check it out on our myspace page.

Just for your entertainment, here is a recent publicity photo taken for the film of Jerica Lilly, the actress that portrays the character of young Marian. It is located outside the building that provided the setting for the nursing home in the film and the contrast of colors are just stunning. Enjoy.

An Introduction

Hello and welcome. We are pleased to introduce to you a new film titled Visit of Charity. This engaging and thought-provoking movie will challenge what you value in life and make you rethink your priorities. The film was directed by Chapman University film student Tom Ptasinski, who has a deep love for the art of film making and is thrilled to share the story of Visit of Charity with you.





Here is a brief synopsis. Visit of Charity is a tale of ignorance, aging, and the cyclical nature of life as a woman relives the very experience she dreaded as a child. In the beginning of the story we meet Marian, an elderly woman, being dropped off at an assisted living facility. As she nears the end, her family decides it is best to leave in the in the care of “professionals.” As Marian tries to make it through this experience we flashback with her to a simpler time in her youth. Young Marian is a campfire girl in the 1930’s, and in desperate need of her community service badge to be the best in her troop. She decides to visit a home for the elderly and the experience turns out to be more than she can bear. Marian visits the home and finds a run down, decrepit, shell of a building, and the same can be said for the nursing staff that takes no particular joy in their work. Marian is brought to the tiny cramped room of the affable Gabrielle and the reclusive and boorish Addie. They are elderly women; shut ins, lonely and desperate for company. To them Marian is more than a visitor, she is their little girl. Gabrielle, desperate to have Marian stay, fusses and dotes on her as Addie tries to push her away. Marian is overwhelmed by the experience; it is too much for such a young child as each woman lets her into her own fears and insecurities culminating in a wish for death that young Marian cannot grant. She flees that place hoping never to return, and yet sixty short years later she sits, alone in her room on the bed watching her family leave her and waiting for anyone to visit.


Please visit our website for more information on Visit of Charity.