My Last Day Without You is an independent feature film produced by Cicala Filmworks

Cicala Filmworks

Cicala Filmworks is an award-winning independent film production company based in New York City. Feature film credits include "My Last Day Without You" , "Get A Job" , Michael Imperioli's debut The Hungry Ghosts , Olaf de Fleur's The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela , Arranged , and Confess...

 and Silver Shepherd. The film is directed by Stefan Schaefer

Stefan Schaefer

Stefan Schaefer is an American writer, director and producer of independent films.-Early Life & Education :Schaefer was born in Boston, spent his childhood in Sussex, England and his adolescent years in Detroit and New York. He studied acting and political theory at Skidmore College and Wesleyan...

, co-written by Schaefer and Christoph Silber

Christoph Silber

Christoph Silber is a screenwriter and film producer born in Berlin. One of Germany's leading screenwriters, he frequently collaborates on film projects in the United States, his adoptive home.-Biography:...

, and produced by Diane Crespo

Diane Crespo

Diane Crespo is a producer and director of feature films and documentaries. She co-founded Cicala Filmworks in 1997.Film credits include Arranged and Contested Streets....

, Silber and Schaefer.

2011 Festival screenings include: Brooklyn International Film Festival, Oldenburg International Film Festival, and the Hawaii International Film Festival.

The film is being released theatrically in several international territories. Mission Pictures International is handling world sales.

Plot

On a one-day business trip to New York, a German business executive (Ken Duken

Ken Duken

Ken Duken is a German actor.Ken Duken is the third child of film and stage actress Christina Loeb; his father is a doctor. Duken never attended a drama school but took courses in drama, including under James Reynold...

) falls in love with a singer-songwriter (Nicole Beharie

Nicole Beharie

Nicole Beharie is an American actress, born in West Palm Beach Florida on January 3, 1985.-Early life:She graduated from South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts & Humanities, where she received a scholarship...

) who exposes him to her Brooklyn world and emotions he has never experienced before.

Cast

The cast includes Ken Duken

Ken Duken

Ken Duken is a German actor.Ken Duken is the third child of film and stage actress Christina Loeb; his father is a doctor. Duken never attended a drama school but took courses in drama, including under James Reynold...

, Nicole Beharie

Nicole Beharie

Nicole Beharie is an American actress, born in West Palm Beach Florida on January 3, 1985.-Early life:She graduated from South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts & Humanities, where she received a scholarship...

, Marlene Forte

Marlene Forte

Marlene Forte is a Cuban-American actress. Her career has included recurring roles on House of Payne and Crossing Jordan. In 2012, she will be a series regular on TNT's revamped Dallas, playing Carmen Ramos, longtime Ewing family housekeeper and mother to Elena...

, Laith Nakli, Robert Clohessy

Robert Clohessy

Robert Clohessy is an American actor, known for playing Correctional Officer Sean Murphy on the HBO drama Oz. He was also a cast member in the final season of Hill Street Blues....

, and Reg E. Cathey

Reg E. Cathey

Reginald "Reg" E. Cathey is an American stage, film and television actor.Cathey is a native of Huntsville, Alabama and a graduate of J.O. Johnson High School. He spent his childhood in West Germany. His favourite band is Blur....

.

Awards & Nominations

• 2011 Brooklyn Film Festival - "Excellence in Producing" / "Best Producers" Award
• 2011 Brooklyn Film Festival - Nominated, Best Feature Film

External links

• Screendaily article