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Written and Directed by: JAKE HULSE is one of the founding members of Happy Wasteland Studios. He has been writing and directing films since his first claymation movies in middle school. Jake started his filmmaking career at the concession counter of his local cineplex. He’d begged them to let him be an usher, but he wasn’t old enough and the closest he ever got to working in the theatre was shelling out bags of popcorn in the main lobby. A graduate of Northeastern University, he originally pursued a career in law enforcement, before switching gears to focus more squarely on his filmmaking career. He served as Director of Photography for Happy Wasteland’s first feature film, “The Answer,” directed by Wade Wofford, which was an official selection of the 2016 Canada International Film Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56245a97e4b08ff533f06e81/1532798748686-XAPTPP4FZFXNHO0GVV0T/Kelly+Henshaw Heroes Don't Come Home - Produced by: KELLY HENSHAW has an Associates Degree in Visual Arts and a BA in Liberal Arts from Baypath University. Kelly Henshaw first worked with Happy Wasteland Studios on a short film entitled the “Iroquois Project.” She continued to support them as they worked on Wade Wofford’s feature film “The Answer.” As the company wrapped that film Kelly offered to step in and produce “Heroes Don’t Come Home,” on which she wore a number of hats including production designer, UPM, and location scout. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56245a97e4b08ff533f06e81/1532798660831-DT3VSWLVY9N9HQWSGR5G/Michael+Haas Heroes Don't Come Home - Produced by: MICHAEL HAAS is another of the founding members of Happy Wasteland. He is heavily involved in all phases of pre-production, production and post-production on the company’s short and feature films. Michael created the visual FX for Happy Wasteland’s first feature film, “The Answer.” He also worked as the VFX artist on “Dark Origins” – which won “Best Narrative Short” at the Fright Night Film Fest and the LA Cinema Festival of Hollywood. For “Heroes Don’t Come Home,” he served as both producer and VFX artist.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56245a97e4b08ff533f06e81/1532799079918-Z38FHS0FU5Y3CU7UWRGQ/Wade+Wofford Heroes Don't Come Home - Director of Photography: WADE WOFFORD is the remaining founding member of Happy Wasteland. Born and raised near Atlanta, his passion for film work began with self-made pinhole cameras and his father’s Vietnam-relic Nikon F. A graduate of the Los Angeles Film School, the University of Georgia and the Meisner School, he has worked on independent and full-budget TV and film productions in Atlanta, New York and L.A. Wade’s first feature as a writer/director, “Perception,” won the “Royal Reel Award in Filmmaking” at the Canada International Film Festival. 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He came up through Drama at the U.of Georgia, then Film Production at Los Angeles Film School and Acting at the Sanford Meisner School. He has written, directed, produced, DP'd, worked set dressing, gaffing, scenic production, and more. His multi-faceted approach to the multiple corners of the medium proved invaluable on a set with such a small budget. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56245a97e4b08ff533f06e81/1491856928797-A3MUGVYNCOWNTG2NCI22/Lauren+Gleason+as+Clarissa Perception, a Wade Wofford film Lauren Gleason as Clarissa Making her feature film debut, Lauren Gleason portrays Clarissa, a young, principled photographer who struggles to make peace with her family upon discovering that she was adopted as a child. 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He has also studied with the faculty of the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in NYC, and he attended the Shakespeare intensive course at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56245a97e4b08ff533f06e81/1491857906117-NYL2OH1BR1YIN90PP0X0/Robert+DiScalfani+DP Perception, a Wade Wofford film Robert DiScalfani - Director of Photography Robert has always had an affinity for the 35mm format as well as the 16:9 aspect ratio. DiScalfani's approach to cinematography emphasizes natural light, which he feels impacts the viewer in ways they cannot sense. His experiences include fashion, magazine work, portraits, album covers, and still life. 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His father's battling cancer and Joe's his sole care-giver. The union is about to go on strike over the new working conditions. A strike, for Joe, means no health insurance for his father's condition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56245a97e4b08ff533f06e81/1522524577435-VFJIJSWDYZLNNFQ9003J/jenny-sized2.jpg Plus 50 Jenny (The Middle Class) Jenny just wants to be comfortable, and start a school to help the blind children she teaches. She and her husband bicker about where to keep the thermostat and lament the days before the water restrictions that turned their lawn brown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56245a97e4b08ff533f06e81/1522357601835-FA68LSMVXL6GT4SZ80NJ/Wei Plus 50 Wei (The Upper Class) Wei hasn't been home to China since he moved to the United States. He married a Chinese woman, and despite the wealth they've amassed, remain infertile. Upon hearing that his mother (who he hasn't seen in 20 years) is on her deathbed, he decides to fight his way through China's Civil War to see her. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56245a97e4b08ff533f06e81/1522357573404-XO4VOFU30UXYYWVMEV25/Bintou Plus 50 Bintou (The Immigrant) Bintou and her 9-month-old daughter Rokia get caught in the middle of a slaughter. All of the villagers who live along the Niger River in Mali - including Rokia's husband, sister and mother - are murdered by mercenaries. Bintou narrowly escapes, and makes her way to the United States in hope of finding a better life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56245a97e4b08ff533f06e81/1522357729956-KMOAGOQR9GUL00NVECIW/Sean Plus 50 Sean (The Survivalist) Sean works as a park ranger, and has seen crisis coming for a long time. Soon, the sinks in the homes of Colorado where he lives will produce...nothing. When that happens, Sean suspects it's going to get ugly. He's spent years working his way off the grid, teaching his son how to prepare for the worst. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56245a97e4b08ff533f06e81/1522359138907-J3NI5QHW7R6U8M32DPKF/Supporting+Cast Plus 50 Supporting Diverse Cast While Plus 50 is centered around this ensemble of five core characters, each exists in a world of complex and diverse people--from a Puerto Rican truck driver (who helps Bintou) to an insightful blind child (Jenny's student) to a grumpy and wise old man (Joe's ailing Dad), Plus 50 is a cast that reflects the diversity of the globe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56245a97e4b08ff533f06e81/1522351755041-OHXYZK0JJNQ2NRZ6F47X/Atlanta Plus 50 ATLANTA With displaced populations from coastal cities streaming northward to here and other southern cities, social services are over-stretched. This summer's 120° heat wave is killing the homeless by the hordes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56245a97e4b08ff533f06e81/1522369264833-KYASKKBSTQYRDT36TR4E/The+Rio+Grande Plus 50 THE RIO GRANDE The U.S.'s need for water exceeded the supply of the Rio Grande, which was drank down to mud, then dried up entirely - breaking treaties with Mexico and mounting international tensions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56245a97e4b08ff533f06e81/1522352419136-XYJUV01VZ7NIH4R7W20M/colorado+suburbs.jpeg Plus 50 THE SUBURBS Salmon now extinct, frequent summer brown-outs in most cities, and bottled water now $20 a bottle, only the rich can afford today's level of comfort - including cooling their homes in summer. The middle class struggles to maintain the comforts it's come to expect, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56245a97e4b08ff533f06e81/1522524628769-LPHNIHE3UX1ZUEWYMHCY/Tokyo+Immigrants Plus 50 TOKYO, JAPAN Following decades of devastation, many displaced citizens of Southeast Asian islands have found themselves with nowhere to go. Struggling to protect their own resources, Japanese armed forces are tasked with rounding up refugees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56245a97e4b08ff533f06e81/1522352282621-43MDGBVUJ3CERHF3RKMW/Male-soldier+in+dust.jpg Plus 50 TIMBUKTU, MALI The discovery of oil in Mali, and the profiting desire to get it out, turns the country to genocide. Profiteering mercenaries slaughter riverside populations to get the oil barges out for sale to the northern hemisphere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56245a97e4b08ff533f06e81/1522356366756-F8G5HRQOTHMSP95IEW45/Miami Plus 50 MIAMI The city's not underwater, but the growing frequency of hurricanes - and the insurance claims that go with them - have rendered the city uninsurable. Fortunes were lost here, and the now-homeless former tenants of wrecked homes flood northward into other cities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56245a97e4b08ff533f06e81/1526996288889-2MLXA4L2OZMQJWPATXTJ/colorado-seans+house.jpg Plus 50 COLORADO The Ogallala Aquifer, which has provided Colorado and seven other midwestern states with residential and agricultural water for decades, goes dry. Tens of millions of homes turn on their taps and get...air. Civil War brews. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56245a97e4b08ff533f06e81/1522368274929-SVU2C6T18EUGCIRXQD0Z/Abandoned+Luohe Plus 50 LUOHE, CHINA China's growing drought season is sometimes followed by torrential rains. The ground too dry to soak the water up, massive floods have destroyed cities - forcing the country to abandon entire municipalities. http://www.happywasteland.com/semblance daily 0.75 2023-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56245a97e4b08ff533f06e81/1522370389066-RLDK2XFMC6NA4FASAEYM/earth+thermal+map.jpg Semblance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56245a97e4b08ff533f06e81/1599666759385-1JP51NC45W4BA9NU3NET/Semblance%2Bposter Semblance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56245a97e4b08ff533f06e81/1600825315175-DPO4N5ZM2JI57JJSM1MX/Soot+240x340+site+thumb.jpg Semblance SOOT Dir. Jake Hulse (post-production) Two factions war for a mysterious package being brought across international borders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56245a97e4b08ff533f06e81/67dace83-ef5a-4652-8266-bd05d566cb21/Screenshot+2023-11-14+at+10.23.29%E2%80%AFAM.png Semblance PUREBRED Dir. Wade Wofford (post-production) A mother tortures her daughter so she can steal her body. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56245a97e4b08ff533f06e81/1600825215886-9ETC0SEQTNOQQYYSEQ0B/Ravens+%26+Swallows Semblance RAVENS & SWALLOWS Dir. Jake Hulse (post-production) Two spies, once partners, meet in a cafe. One may be a traitor. http://www.happywasteland.com/urbaned daily 0.75 2023-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56245a97e4b08ff533f06e81/1522370389066-RLDK2XFMC6NA4FASAEYM/earth+thermal+map.jpg Urban Ed-old https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56245a97e4b08ff533f06e81/1613144904522-Y69JLO5DPP0KLK1LDR8C/Urban+Ed+Mood+Board Urban Ed-old https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56245a97e4b08ff533f06e81/1614183807828-AXE3PV4SYNIPF2931GZJ/Wilson.png Urban Ed-old WOODROW WILSON CHARTER SCHOOL When the film begins, the ensemble cast of students goes to school at Wilson - a small, intimate 6-12 charter school with 100 students per grade. Most of the cast have been here since starting middle school, and planned to graduate from here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56245a97e4b08ff533f06e81/1614183962219-BYPHDH5TMLHBM7QPB8TX/Springfield.png Urban Ed-old SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS Both of Urban Ed’s schools are in Springfield, which sits alongside the Connecticut River in western Mass. It’s a now- depressed boom town of the Victorian era, fighting against homelessness & low income, but rich with culture & diversity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56245a97e4b08ff533f06e81/1614183777312-CNVDCBBSQN9U900SNHP4/BrutalistSchool.png Urban Ed-old COMP-TECH HIGH SCHOOL When Wilson is closed in the middle of the school year, the only school that has space for all the displaced students is a huge neighboring high school - one of the worst in the state. Neither the students nor the faculty here want the Wilson students. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56245a97e4b08ff533f06e81/1613337701987-NEY8ASA4K4WH3JF626ON/aryana.png Urban Ed-old ARYANA A sophomore at Woodrow Wilson, she practically parents her younger siblings while her mom works 2 jobs. She's a gifted artist at painting fingernails, but the local salon won't employ her unless she maintains a B average. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56245a97e4b08ff533f06e81/1613337744395-WUTYMTIKSIVRCURSE9IA/davante1-shirtless.png Urban Ed-old D’AVANTE Aryana’s boyfriend struggles to balance what the streets expect of him with what his conservative mom demands. To be a strong male, according to many of his peers, is not to care about school work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56245a97e4b08ff533f06e81/1613337802792-9LHZC7QHAZZ9RYAMT6WO/olivia1.png Urban Ed-old OLIVIA A brilliant visual artist whose boyfriend (Aryana’s brother) was shot last year. Struggling with her grief, her friendship with Aryana keeps her sane as she tries to parlay her art talents into college. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56245a97e4b08ff533f06e81/1613338873573-V1BBKPES0ZGZ1T7G93R1/nicola.png Urban Ed-old NICOLA Nicola maintains the strict Jamaican expectations of her family, and demands that her son D’Avante transcend the attitudes of the other “ghetto” kids in Springfield he hangs out with, including his girlfriend Aryana. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56245a97e4b08ff533f06e81/1613338936177-9YD9Q5VM87TVCRE2P68K/Jilisia.png Urban Ed-old JILISIA She’s got 4 kids by 3 different fathers - all who are now gone. Since her eldest son was murdered last year, she expects Aryana (now the eldest), to help out. She works 2 jobs, and fights to ward off the anger of her situation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56245a97e4b08ff533f06e81/1613340666261-QX3M6ZL4PHWLV7MC2PS2/beans.png Urban Ed-old BEANS Homeless since he decided to stand up to the guy who moved in with his mom, Beans now sleeps in his cousin's car on the southside. He's a smart kid whose daily life is so riddled with difficulty that school focus is impossible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56245a97e4b08ff533f06e81/1613340644318-WSNAYAGTTD85X7VZDY6F/massey.png Urban Ed-old MASSEY That urban teacher who kids really like, but who doesn't take shit. 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