ACTING & FILM SCHOOL

Director Allen Cognata “fulfilling his professional dreams”

SunJournal - New York Film Academy Film School graduate Allen Cognata has begun filming his latest film, “The Putt Putt Syndrome.”

Director Allen Cognata sipped decaf tea from a Styrofoam cup and gazed into a TV screen, connected to a $500,000 hi-definition camera that took in every detail of Lewiston’s Save-A-Lot grocery store.

“We can’t show the windows,” Cognata told an assistant as the clocks passed midnight. “It’s daytime.”

Twenty minutes later, Congnata completed his first shot of star Jason London walking down the frozen food aisle. It began day 11 of a breakneck, 18-day shooting schedule around central Maine.

With a budget under $200,000, the quiet New Yorker-turned-Mainer hopes to create a story that will compete with the best independent films in the country. At bargain prices, he was able to sign Los Angeles actors and crews because of the strong, darkly comic screenplay about getting complacent in marriage. It’s titled “The Putt Putt Syndrome.”

“I picked up the script and I couldn’t stop turning the pages,” said London, a TV and movie actor whose credits include the film “Dazed and Confused” and the title role in the TV miniseries, “Jason and the Argonauts.”…full article.

We look forward to seeing your new film and wish you the very best of luck Allen.