ABOUT

Allure is a process-driven film, where filmmakers and performers (actors and non-actors) worked together through a series of improvisations, character building, and discussions to flesh out the story and protagonists.  The camera follows the characters, instead of the characters playing/posing for the camera.  All dialogue is improvised, as the scene is worked through.

 

Inspired by true stories, ALLURE focuses on five women in NYC, who have come from different countries and settings. Each one struggles to overcome her personal conflict, set against the backdrop of greater political struggles and the global Occupy Movements. These separate, but intersecting multi-ethnic storylines touch and inform each other, and create a larger narrative, about gender, emigration, power, class, and personal politics.

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Allure was nominated for Best North American Independent Film at the 2014 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, and Best Foreign Film at the 2015 Portobello Film Festival in London. It was released theatrically in the US in 2015, and is available on VoD and online streaming.

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LEAD CAST:

DIANA LOTUS

​MADELEINE ASSAS
YING YING LI
JULIA KONRAD VIEZZER

AISHA DE BANKOLE

CAVEH ZAHEDI
DIDIER FLAMAND

ADAM EPSTEIN

 

Supporting Cast: 

CHRISTOPHER DOMIG, , AL NAZ, YOHAN BELMIN, IAN KURTZ,​ 

MARI YAMAMOTO,  ROSA GILMORE, GEMMA FORBES,

ELIZABETH MCNELIS, ​LENA VESEL, WENDY CHANG,

DANIEL COADY, TOUSSAINT RAPHAEL ABESSOLO,

KEVIN MERCADO,  PETOL WEEKES,  ANNA KENNEDY,

PATRICIA ARRIAGA, RYAN BARKER, JACK LEEDS.

 

 

Concept, Story and Direction by VLADAN NIKOLIC

 

Produced by VLADAN NIKOLIC, ALEKSANDAR KOSTIC,​

KOSTIC FILMS, LLC, Executive Producer ERIC WERTHMAN

 

​ALEKSANDAR KOSTIC - Director of Photography

 

VON HARRIS - co-producer, Assistant Director

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​COLIN NUSBAUM- Second Camera, co-producer

 

KEN ANDERSON - co-producer, sound

 

VLADANA ILIC - co-producer, sound

 

BRIAN MURPHY - co-producer, camera and lighting

 

LARA SFIRE - co-producer, Assistant Director

 

MARIJA PLAVSIC - co-producer, set designer

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JIM STARK - Consulting Producer

 

with the help of FORREST MCCULLER (sound) and

CARLOS ZOZAYA (production assistance)

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Music by YVES DHARAMRAJ​

 

Sound Design by JACOB SUBOTNICK

 

Sound Mix by CHRIS STANGROOM

 

 

Special Thanks to: 

Z Hotel Long Island City,  Greenwich Village Bistro,  

Hobo Audio, GRS Systems, Colin Harris-McTigue.

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