ONE HOUR FANTASY GIRL

The film’s score was composed by Nima Fakhrara, a protégé of Academy Award Winning composer Hans Zimmer and who scored the Joker theme along with other pieces in THE DARK KNIGHT.

Award winning post facility Juniper Post (GEORGE WASHINGTON, BOOGIE NIGHTS, FARGO) did the post sound mix.

Timecode Multimedia (IN SEACH OF A MIDNIGHT KISS) did the color correction.

Academy Award winning Editor Joe Hutshing (BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, JFK, ALMOST FAMOUS, VANILLA SKY) consulted on the film’s editing; giving notes on the final cut of ONE HOUR FANTASY GIRL.

Movie Review by Dain Binder of DainsMovieReviews.com One Hour Fantasy Girl (2009) is an artistic yet raw look at real life; this is based on a true story. The film is a poignant view at the life of Brandi (Kelly-Ann Tursi), a fantasy girl. With dreams of a better life and more money she begins working as a fantasy girl to work towards her goal of real estate investing. She will create and participate in any man's fantasy as long as she does not have to kiss or be nude. Haunted by her childhood and unable to sleep she turns to meditation and chanting with little effect but wants no pity from anyone about her situation. On the streets of Hollywood Becky Lewis appears to be just another girl with loosely tied back hair and oversized t-shirts, but in room 102 of The California Sunshine Motel she becomes Brandi and participates in a world she knows little about. Chi (Paul D. Nguyen), her business partner, arranges everything including her first client. Roger (Jon Morgan Woodward) is a large man that never lost his baby fat and fantasies about infancy. He knows what he wants and Brandi gives it to him; a bottle filled with vodka, and rub on his head, and baby games are all part of the sessions. Being experienced with these encounters he instructs her to do more profound things in later visits testing her strength. Bobby (Joe Luckay) has just come to town from Montana and finds himself alone. After visiting her website he calls to find out more and is immediately drawn in. He is an odd young man looking to build his discipline by lying in bed with her. Innocent and sincere with knowledge of her beliefs bring them closer than she would like. She fights to control the situation and his consistent advances but really needs a good person in her life. Bobby and Roger along with other interesting people will shape her life forever. Dianthia (Kalena Knox) works at an all night diner offering solace to Brandi during her sleepless nights but is fighting for her own survival. 9 out of 10 - This eye popping glimpse into another lifestyle turns out to be very compelling; the choices made on the path for happiness as you come into adulthood can make or break you. Mesmerizing and ravenous electronic music by Nima Fakhrara accompanies the scenes and perfectly compliments the pace of the film. The writing, direction, production, and acting are all done with passion that shines on the screen - Kelly-Ann Tursi provides a deeply emotional performance. The subject matter could have made this uncomfortable to watch, but it is so well done and does not cross the line and there is no nudity. A few scenes do have or imply some very alternative sexual activities. For additional reviews, visit: http://www.onehourfantasygirlmovie.com/press

Movie Review by Melanie Addington of OxfordFilmFreak.com Let me tell you that as one of the screeners for a film festival, I often see many, atrocious “male-fantasy dressed up as a film” films, so when I first saw the title for One Hour Fantasy Girl, despite my best attempt to remain objective, I went into the film thinking, oh boy, here we go again. But I could not have been more wrong. In fact, what director/writer Edgar Michael Bravo and producer John Paul Rice have made is a challenging look at a 20-year old female struggling to overcome her childhood and finding a way to succeed, sometimes making bad choices, sometimes being too trusting, but learning to find her inner strength. Yeah, sounds a bit Lifetime, right? But it is not. Due to a quite interesting script, with only the minor of flaws (I wanted to see the police enter the scene at some point in this film), outstanding performances from most of the actors, and fairly strong production value, One Hour Fantasy Girl is a unique indie that looks into the seedy underworld of paying others to live out fantasies. Kelly-Ann Tursi, the lead fantasy girl, is quite the phenomenal actress. Gritting her teeth and baring what comes at her, she manages to tell much of her pain through a steely-jaw but expressionistic eyes. Nearly welling up with tears at many a tragedy in her life, she’s tough and setbacks only keep her down for a moment. Since most of what her character is dealing with is internal, it was quite interesting to watch her as she fought to not let down her guard. Convinced by Chi Trang, her partner (or in the more seedier version of her job, her pimp), to make money by playing out the fantasies of men, she goes on board with some set ground rules, no kissing, no sex and what she is doing with them has to be legal. In comes three men who hire her for various reasons. Jon Morgan Woodward plays the seediest of the three, acting out infancy and masochistic fantasies, his character, Roger, is the driving force behind Chi who is wanting to break into the music industry and can only do so if he finds a girl to fuel Roger’s fetishes. Joe Luckay plays Bobby, a boy who tells her he wants to take her away from her pain. Then there is Sal, played by John Buckley Gordon, who lends quite the comic touch to the film, often making business calls as he acts out his fantasy with her. But the fantasy girl, Becky Lewis (Tursi), is also trying to escape reality. She uses spirituality and a local diner as tools of escapism from her drab existence, not too far off from what the men who pay her are doing with her. Instead she pays the local diner people to sit all night so she has somewhere to not be alone and to ground her into what she considers normalcy. While there is never anything overtly sexual about what she is doing, in a way living out their fantasies is somehow more intrusive, more intimate, than prostitution. Its not a physical disconnected experience but an hour that gets to the heart of their desires, needs, even their childhood wounds. Her story moves away from the typical movie version of a ‘fantasy girl’ and instead embraces a more realistic approach. This is not Pretty Woman, there is no Richard Gere waiting to save you at the end. Instead, there are con artists, perverts and a lot of people judging you by what you do. Yet, despite what Becky does for a living, Bravo has written her as so likeable and determined, that you can’t help but root for her. But I wonder, since producer John Paul Rice said the core audience for the film thus far has been 14-30 year-old females, what message comes across to them? Will they take away just how awful is the life she has chosen, or will they see the way in the end her choices led to her where she really wanted to end? For additional reviews, visit: http://www.onehourfantasygirlmovie.com/press

Movie Review by Kent Victor Schuelke, Indie Film Critic Edgar Michael Bravo has talent. It's the job of a movie director to make sure that all of his or her collaborators are working on the same film. From its first frame to its last, the director of ONE HOUR FANTASY GIRL demonstrates a gift for cinematic storytelling. His second feature is impressive visual storytelling in every respect - in writing, directing, acting, editing, photographic composition and lighting, sound design, production design, and certainly most remarkably in music scoring. A director is responsible for executing the story from the page to the screen, and it's really all a director does, although the word "all" should be in all caps. It's a truly difficult prospect to massage each individual ingredient that will end up the cinematic canvas, in no other art form are the individual elements so different from each other, yet in a good film the sum of these elements must create the desired whole: several hours of movie storytelling that excite, emotionally affect, titillate, or whatever desired intents the filmmakers have in store for the audience. Edgar Michael Bravo succeeds in delivering a final movie in which every previously mentioned ingredient fits perfectly in the final movie. As someone who watches many features by fledgling writer-directors, I cannot emphasize how extraordinary that is. The pacing of the movie, and more importantly the storytelling, is flawless. Anyone interested in movies should watch ONE HOUR FANTASY GIRL. It may, in your cinephile’s postmortem, turn out not to be your kind of movie, but you should watch it. Some of the performances are right on the money, some of them are a little amateurish and off, but this was not a detail I found any desire to sweat while watching the story play out. The important thing is Bravo knows what story he wants to tell, and he sticks to it with laser-like focus, and he succeeds. ONE HOUR FANTASY GIRL is about finding inner strength. Some people find it unintentionally, simply because surviving life's traumas forces them to look deep within themselves and locate it and seize it with all of their might. Other people seek out guides to help them find this strength. And still others pay people to force their strength to the surface. All of these folks inhabit the Hollywood of OHFG. And not everyone finds the strength to survive. Congrats again to Bravo for his terrific big-screen character study, and I look forward to watching his next feature. But in the meantime, do yourself a favor and buy and watch a copy of ONE HOUR FANTASY GIRL. For additional reviews, visit: http://www.onehourfantasygirlmovie.com/press