Bay Area Filmmakers to Develop NEW SERIES starring Homicide Hunter Star, Carl Marino
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December 7, 2014
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Carl Marino, star of the hit Investigation Discovery Channel series, Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda, has announced he’ll be starring in and co-producing, a new one-hour drama, The Rain Shadow, in early 2015. Homicide Hunter, which was just picked up by Investigation Discovery for a fifth season, is currently broadcast in over 100 countries. The Rain Shadow tells the story of an outnumbered, and outgunned, small town sheriff (Marino), who is forced to turn to murder in order to stop a sinister element that has infiltrated his town. The series is being partly funded through Indiegogo.
Playing a sheriff comes naturally to Marino since he was a Deputy Sheriff in upstate New York for 17 years. Soon after relocating to San Jose, CA, he made his film debut in the independent film, Sedona’s Rule (2010). Almost immediately after, he was cast in the NBC show, Trauma (2009) that was filming in San Francisco. Since then, Marino has worked on, and been featured in, numerous feature films, network and cable television shows.Marino’s costar, Gretta Sosine, also resides in the Bay Area. Like Marino, Sosine appeared in Trauma, and has worked on Moneyball (2011), starring Brad Pitt, HBO’s Hemingway and Gelhorn (2012) starring Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen and various other projects.
Members of the production company also have Bay Area roots. Director Trevor Adrian was born in Santa Cruz and studied with four-time Oscar winner, Mark Berger, at UC Berkeley. His short, The Stick Men, played at the Cannes Short Film Corner.
Producer Madeline DiMaggio moved to the Monterey Peninsula to raise her daughter and remained there for eighteen years while commuting to Los Angeles to work as a television writer. DiMaggio worked as a contract writer for Paramount Studios in Pilot Development. She has written over 45 hours of produced prime time sitcoms, one-hour dramas, TV movies and features. While at Honest Engine films, she co-produced numerous independent features and documentaries, including Surviving Eden, starring Peter Dinklage and Jane Lynch. Currently, her cable movie, Profile for Murder, is running on the Lifetime Movie Network.
Technical Advisor Avram Walden was born in Santa Rosa and raised in Palo Alto and Mountain View. He studied computer science at Foothill College and is an IT specialist and freelance graphic and web designer.
Marketing and Social Media Coordinator Kelly Reiterman is a fourth-generation San Franciscan. She earned her B.A. in Radio-Television at San Francisco State University and has been working in marketing and social media since 2009.
For more information on the Indiegogo campaign, visit: http://igg.me/at/rstv.
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