“ATRAPADOS”  (TRAPPED)
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A Feature Length Motion Picture Produce by Panorama Productions, Inc.

Two strangers become trapped underground following the unexpected destruction of an apartment building.  The man and woman, immediately detesting each other, realize they may have inherited the earth as its sole survivors.  “ATRAPADOS”- TRAPPED, and exploration in survival of the body and the spirit.

Starring
JULIO TORRESOTO            SONIA VIVAS

 Director/Producer
MATTHEW PATRICK           

Original Story/Screenplay
JULIO TORRESOTO

Co-Producers
MATTHEW IRMAS           JAN SANTAGATA

Music
JOHN PETERSEN     DANIEL LICHT    “CONJUNTO CLASICO” 

Photography                            Editor  
MATTHEW PATRICK             MATSUO KUHARA 

Set Design                  Art Direction             Props
JAVIER TORRES        FELIX CORDERO       VICENTA SOTO-LONGO

COLOR 91 MINUTES
IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

©  1981 PANORAMA PRODUCTIONS, INC.

C A S T

CARLOS ……………..     JULIO TORRESOTO
ALBA …………………     SONIA VIVAS
SOPHIE ………………     CHARLENE KOH
MARCUS ………….…..     MARK MASSI
BOWLING MGR ………     DANIEL EARNSHAW
DRUNK ………………     JOHN MARTELLO
CHAUFFEUR  ……..…..    GLENN COOPER
MASHER ………….…      STEVE KRANTZ
BUM …………..…….      PETER PRESS
SCREAMER …………      CARMEN BONEFONT
BELLY DANCER …….      ASILAH

C R E D I T S

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER .    MATTHEW PATRICK
CO-PRODUCER ………..     MATTHEW IRMAS
                                                      JOHN SANTAGATA
STORY/SCREEPLAY …        JULIO TORRESOTO
CINEMATOGRAPHY …..       MATTHEW PATRICK
EDITING …………..…..      MATSUO KUHARA  
SET DESIGN …………..     JAVIER TORRES
ART DIRECTION ………     FELIX CORDERO 
PROP MASTER ………..     VICENTA SOTO-LONGO
 MUSIC COMPOSITION ..     DANIEL LICHT
 ELECTRONIC MUSIC …     JOHN PETERSEN
 MUSIC CONSULTANT….     MAX ROACH
 “CONJUNT CLASSICO” perform …     “DON PEDRITO”     “SIN RUMBO ALGUNO”
 EXECUTIVE CONSULTANT .      PAUL WHITE
 ASSOCIATE PRODUCER … .     TOM JOSLIN
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR ……      JON BERSON
PRODUCTION MANAGER …      JULITO HELLER  
UNIT MANAGER ……….…..      JOHN COLES
SOUND EDITOR ………..….      NANCY MESHKOF
 STILLS ……………………..      CAMILLE PERROTTET
 SUBTITLES/TRANSLATION ..      JEANNE QUINN
 SET CONSTRUCTION ……       MIGUEL GONZALEZ
                                                             ALBERTO GUZMAN
NEGATIVE MATCHING …..      NOELLE PENRAAT
PUBLICIST ………………      ROSINA RUBIN
 SPECIAL EFFECTS ……..       UNLIMITED VISION

                                                                 NASA
PRINTS …………………       DUART
OPTICALS …………..….       EUE SCREEN GEMS
RE-RECORDING ………..       QUALITY
INTERNATIONAL:
     DUBBING OF SAN JAN,   PUERTO RICO

This film is dedicated to the memory of JAVIER TORRES
                    “A T R A P A D O S”    (TRAPPED)
A feature-length motion picture
(in Spanish with English subtitles)

Synopsis

ATRAPADOS is an exploration into survival by determination, a gripping tale of hope, courage and sanity in an insane world.

As the film opens, a fateful catastrophe disrupts the everyday lives of two strangers, sealing the opposing souls beneath the rubble of a collapsed high-rise apartment building.

What has happened?  Does anyone else survive?  Can they escape?  Will they die?

The victims are a couple who appear to have nothing in common.  Carlos (Julio Torresoto) isa a plumber; he lives to eat, drink and sleep.  Alba (Sonia Vivas) is a highly educated woman, enmeshed in a loveless marriage to a prominent astronomy professor.  Are they already dead?

The soft Alba is repulsed by the coarse, primal Carlos.  She cringes with horror at his vulgar animal behavior as he joyously gourges himself on rats.  She studies philosophy as he obsessively digs a tunnel toward an outside world that may in reality be devastated.  Carlos in turn finds Alba’s own fanatical preoccupation with abstract knowledge and the supernatural ridiculous.  He attacks and humiliates her intellectual purity.

But as the nightmare continues, their strange, isolated, sunless world becomes a home where life goes on.  As the months pass, polarity gives way to magnetism, repulsion turns to passion, disgust to respect, frigidity to warmth, hate to love, fear to hope.  Together Carlos and Alba confront the suffocation of their confinement and strive to transcend the darkness of their entrapment and attain freedom.

“A T R A P A D O S”: THE EXPERIENCE

By sticking to a grueling programs of exercise and diet, actor Julio Torresoto shared in the ordeal of Carlos, the character he portrays in ATRAPADOS.  Weighing in at 200 pounds at the commencement of filming, the actor reduced to a mere 120 pounds by the completion of principal photography a year later.  His co-star, Sonia Vivas, lost 30 pounds for her role in the movies. 

Commenting on the experience, Mr. Torresoto remarked, “Walking the fine line between fantasy and reality enabled us to bring a sense of sould and realism to ATRAPADOS that we could not have achieved by using make-up and body costuming”.

PANORAMA PRODUCTIONS announces the completion of ATRAPADOS (TRAPPED), a highly stylized, Spanish language, fantasy feature film.  ATRAPADOS is one of the first legitimate artworks from a new emerging culture that is neither from Latin nor Anglo America.  There are 25 millions Hispanics living in the united States, comprising the fastest-growing minority.

This is director/producer MATTHEW PATRICK’s first major feature film.  Mr. Patrick’s previous films have won numerous awards, including the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Student Film Award, and have been shown on television, in theaters, and at major museums throughout the country.  Mr. Patrick is a cross-cultural product himself, having a father from Goldsboro, North Carolina USA, and a mother from Tokyo, Japan.  ATRAPADOS was financed through a grant to Mr. Patrick from the American Film Institute as well as through privated investments.  Mr. Patrick is currently at work developing his next project, a futuristic action feature.

JULIO TORRESOTO, principal actor and screenwriter, is a veteran stage and screen actor who has appeared in over 15 Mexican and American feature films.  In addition to the script of ATRAPADOS, he has written numerous film, TV and radio scripts, and is the creator of the award-winning QUE TAL AMIGOS?, a Spanish language program syndicated on American National Public Radio.  Mr. Torresoto is currently working as a radio and TV personality in his native Puerto Rico.

JOHN PETERSEN, of Elias-Petersen Associates, composed the electronic music for ATRAPADOS.  Elias-Petersen Associates specializes in sound design for commercial and feature films and has contributed music for such recent films as ALIEN, 9TO 5, ALTERED STATES, FORT APACHE, THE BRONX and WOLFEN.  Mr. Petersen is currently arranging music for a film by John Berry.

All world-wide media rights to ATRAPADOS are currently available.  ATRAPADOS can also be seen by appointment in New York City and Los Angeles, by contacting Matthew Patrick (Los Angeles, (213) 271-5772).