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Midnight

[CROPS] | 2008 | 84 min | Feature Documentary

Directed by: Barbara Brancaccio and Joshua Zeman

(Cropsey)
USA

World Premiere

Interests: Documentary,  Female Director(s),  Mystery,  NY Director,  NYcomp,  New York,  Returning Filmmaker

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Cast & Credits

Directors:
Joshua Zeman, Barbara Brancaccio
Screenwriter:
Joshua Zeman
Producers:
Joshua Zeman, Barbara Brancaccio, Zachary Mortensen
Executive Producer:
Jeffrey Levy-Hinte
Director of Photography:
Chad Davidson
Editors:
Tom Patterson, Anita Gabrosek
Music:
Alexander Lasarenko
Associate Producer:
Corbin Day, Todd Tiberi

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Synopsis

Growing up on Staten Island, filmmakers Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio had often heard the urban legend of "Cropsey." It was a cautionary tale invented to keep them out of the abandoned buildings that remained of the Willowbrook Mental Institution. Cropsey was supposedly an escaped patient who would come out late at night and snatch children off the streets—sometimes with a hook for a hand, other times with a bloody ax. But in 1987, Jennifer Schweiger, a 13-year-old with Down syndrome, disappeared from their community. For Zeman, Brancaccio, and the other kids of Staten Island, their urban legend became real.

Even as adults, this real-life boogeyman hasn't escaped the minds of the filmmakers. The eeriness of the mystery pulsates through the film as they journey into the underbelly of their borough to investigate not just Schweiger's disappearance but four other missing children linked to a shadowy drifter named Andre Rand. As more information and clues unravel, Zeman and Brancaccio become more immersed in shocking surprises and revelations. The reality they uncover in this uniquely hair-raising documentary is more terrifying than any urban legend.

--David Kwok

+Related Media

Cropsey - Directoramp;#39;s Bio
Cropsey Film Clip 1
Cropsey Film Clip 2
Cropsey Film Clip 3
Cropsey - Tailer

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+About The Director

Joshua Zeman is a partner in the production company Ghost Robot and a fellow at the Sundance Institute's Creative Producing Initiative. His films include Forest Grove and Against the Current. Some of Zeman's past coproducer/producer credits include The Station Agent and Choking Man (TFF '06), which went on to win an IFP Gotham Award. In 2002, he penned and produced Members Only, a documentary on the history of organized crime in New York.

Barbara Brancaccio is New York City's executive deputy commissioner for public information. She previously curated the film festival at the 10th National Roundtable for Women in Prison and produced Surviving Justice: The Women in Prison Film Showcase, held in 2001 at Anthology Film Archives in New York City.

+Film Contacts

Print Source

Joshua Zeman
Ghost Robot
25 Howard Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10013
Phone: 212 343 0900
Email: josh.zeman@verizon.net

NEED TO CONTACT JOSHUA by CHRIS BRIGGS on June 30, 2010 11:23 AM
have a project TVC and have worked with Joahua before - so trying to make contact
NEED TO CONTACT JOSHUA by CHRIS BRIGGS on June 30, 2010 11:24 AM
i am on chris@reddotproductions.co.za
Cropsey by Sue Grober on September 14, 2010 09:08 AM
Would love to purchase the Cropsey film that recently aired on ID. Let me know how i can get a copy. thanks sgrober@amicsf. org
looking for a copy also by Jana on October 08, 2010 06:10 AM
I recorded on tv but only got 1/2 of documentary and I REALLY want to see the complete show, I never heard of Cropsey before am VERY interested in this. Thank you mzjgh@yahoo.com
 
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