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Duranfilms, Inc. duranfilms@peacezone.net
Duranfilms, Inc. is an Independent Film Production Company based in Brooklyn NY. Established in 1992 the company has developed and produced 3 feature films, 2 dynamic shorts numerous commercials and music videos. The mission objective of Empowerment Network Public Relations, PeaceZone Empowerment Network, and Duranfilms is to create thought provoking documentary movies, entertaining feature films, shorts and television programming.
Eddy Duran started his career as a public access television producer. While working as a box office clerk for the Samuel Goldwyn Company, he worked on various small film productions in New York and L.A. A year later he got his first opportunity in the form of a P.A. on the TV series New York Undercover. Recognizing the need to create thought-provoking films, Eddy enrolled in courses for filmmaking at NYU, and moved towards producing and directing his first film short Good Thing.
Three months later Eddy wrote the script and assembled the team for his first independent feature Stone Cold Killers: Los Jodedores, an urban drama about how the lives of a drug dealer with integrity, a visual artist, an alcoholic, and a violent ex-con, become inextricably bound together in Manhattan’s Washington Heights and Brooklyn’s East New York.
Stone Cold Killers was acquired by Maverick Entertainment. Maverick also acquired his second feature, Grand Opening, a comedy about the owner of a dysfunctional supermarket with eccentric employees and cynical customers. Both have been top sellers in Maverick’s library and can be found in any video outlet retailer including Blockbuster and Netflix. Eddy recently completed his third independent feature entitled Shoes Crazy, which will be selling in Amazon.com with in the next few months.
He has also developed 2 TV pilots, one is for a reality-based show entitled “Fox Hunt”, chronicling the daily operations of a “real women’s” modeling/entertainment life style agency, and the other is a drama series entitled “Pale Blue Light” a - Tv drama about 2 brothers who turn a family own dying Latino record label to the Top Hip Hop Label in the country, the show chronicles the rise and the tribulations of the record company and the effects it has on the family bond. The Wire Meets Entourage meets The Sopranos. Duranfilms has just wrapped and is in post production of “When it Rains” another short film Eddy Duran production about teenage suicide.
“The Lesson Plan” is Mr. Duran’s fourth film. It is a thought provoking 30 minute short film which he wrote and directed. It is based on “The Willie Lynch Letter”. This Short Film project was produced with the intent of being the basis for a full-length feature film. “The Lesson Plan” was an official participant of Cannes Film Festival "Short Film Corner 2009" and the "Black Hollywood Film Festival" 2009 and several other film festivals throughout the United States.
“The Lesson Plan” is about the ledged of William Lynch, a British slave owner from the West Indies who allegedly traveled to the United States in 1712 to instruct American slave owners on how to make and keep slaves; he left a letter with specific instructions. The term "lynching" is derived from his name. Flash forward to 2009 where we meet Nix Dunn, a Brooklyn, NY public school teacher/scholar on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Obsessed with the letter, he creates a Lesson Plan during Black History Month in order to teach his students about the psychological damage he believes still
Current Eddy Duran Feature Film Project: Brooklyn English
“Brooklyn English” Logline:
Whatz up! The Brooklyn English college radio crew’s struggle to revive ’Old School’ Hip Hop faces the internal and external demons in a moral struggle to beat down the 7 deadly sins through the airwaves by promoting the reverberating consciousness raising Spoken Word rhythmic flows of Old School Hip Hop.
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