About
Shot on DV in late February 2007, The Things We know is based on a play by Stephen Belber and adapted for film by both Stephen Belber and Lucie Tiberghien. Stay tuned for updates on upcoming screenings for this beautiful short film.Where is it now?
TTWK is currently being entered into film festivals.
Summary
A subway ride, a walk, a surprise visit, and two lives are reshaped forever.O is white and Keith is black. They are old friends. But they long for each other. Today O shows up at Keith's door unannounced, and that may just change everything.
Cast & Crew
Crew:Produced by: Alicia Arinella
Directed by: Lucie Tiberghien
Written by: Lucie Tiberghien and Stephen Belber
Director of Photography: Frank Barrera
Production Designer: Diana Whitten
Associate Produced by: Julie Tortorici
Producer's Assistant: Jessica Arinella
Producer's Assistant: Kristin David
Production Coordinator: Joseph Amon
Gaffer: Bart Grieb
Key Grip: Chris Vidiac
Costume Design by: Meredith Magoun
Makeup Artist: Belle
Sound Mixer: Dave Groman
Script Supervisor: Julie Tortorici
Still Photography: Diana Whitten
Boom Operator: Joseph Amon
Cast:
O - Jennifer Mudge
Keith - Isiah Whitlock
Crew Bios
LUCIE TIBERGHIEN: Lucie Tiberghien has been directing theater in New York for ten years. Some of the writers whose plays she has directed include Craig Wright, Lee Blessing, Richard Dresser, Stephen Belber, Katori Hall, Tommy Smith, and Deborah Laufer. She has helped develop scripts at the O’Neill playwriting conference, the Sundance theater institute and the Cherry Lane. She comes from a dance and music background and used to dance professionally in Paris. Most recently she co-wrote and directed the short film “The Thing We Know”. She is both French and American and now lives in Brooklyn with playwright and screenwriter Stephen Belber and their two children Tobi and Clementine.
Cast Bios
JENNIFER MUDGE: most recently appeared off-Broadway as Lula opposite Dulé Hill in Amiri Baraka’s controversial Dutchman, at the Cherry Lane Theatre. She also played Maggie in Gil Cates’ Geffen Playhouse production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with John Goodman and Brenda Fricker. New York Theater: Craig Wright’s The Pavilion, directed by Lucie Tiberghien (Rattlestick Theater); world premiere of Terrence McNally’s The Stendhal Syndrome (Primary Stages); Reckless (Broadway); Rose’s Dilemma (Manhattan Theatre Club); Only the End of the World (Company Charniere). Regional: Arena Stage; Bay Street Theatre; Alabama Shakespeare Festival; Contemporary American Theater Festival; Sundance Theatre Institute; and five seasons as a member of Trinity Rep. under Oskar Eustis’ artistic direction, including Saint Joan, Othello, The Music Man, As You Like It, Into the Woods, Angels in America, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Upcoming independent features: Drifting Elegant (Mill Valley Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, among others), by Stephen Belber and Play It by Ear. TV: “Law & Order: Criminal Intent”, “Hope & Faith”, “Law and Order”, “Hack”, various soaps. Training: MFA, Trinity Rep.