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2002
Great Lakes Independent Film Festival
Melting Glass
 Category:
Narrative Short 28min 30sec
Director: Patrick Grandaw
Melting Glass is a
poignant story of an intense emotional relationship between an
American glass-blower in Prague and his Czech fiance. When
pressured by his American parent company to 'improve' on the
process of Bohemian crystal, already a nearly-perfect process,
his answer is to increase production. As a result of his
efforts, he is called back to America for a promotion, to the
detriment of the relationship with his fiance, who wishes to
stay near her family in Prague. She finally agrees to go with
him to America on one condition: that they get the approval of
her family, an approval not forthcoming. Through this intriguing
and personal drama, Jerry learns that love over international
borders can be more fragile than crystal.
Principal Cast:
Rob Boltin (Coyote Ugly, Passions)
Silvia Suvadova (Kolya (Oscar & Golden Globe
Winner - Best Foreign Film))
Jaroslav Vizner
FEATURED PLAYER
Zdenka Volencova
Vasek Rasilov
Ivo Novak
 Director:
Patrick Grandaw
As an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
Patrick Grandaw double-majored in Film Production and Cinema
Studies, receiving the Princess Grace of Monaco Award for a film
he co-wrote and directed entitled, Trois Heures Dix, an
American/French co-production which was recently shown in the
Milwaukee’s Best Film Festival. Patrick has now finished
graduate studies at the University of Southern California's
Graduate Cinema Program with his thesis film, Melting Glass,
studying with director Ivan Passer who attended the Academy of
Performing Arts Film School with Milos Foreman. He has already
received much attention for the films he wrote and directed at
USC. One film which he produced there, The Shy and the Naked,
recently won the CINE Golden Eagle Award. He was awarded the
1997-98 Hollywood Foreign Press Association Scholarship and the
Harold Lloyd Scholarship, and was a Fulbright-Hayes Scholarship
nominee in 1999. His new film, Melting Glass is in the midst of
an impressive festival run, including winning top honors of
Grand Jury Prize Best of Festival at the Vancouver Island
Int’l Film Festival, Best Dramatic Short at Fargo Int’l Film
Festival, Gold Prize for Best Dramatic Short at Crested Butte
Film Festival, Best Cinematagraphy at Back East Picture Show,
nominations for Best Short and Flash Forward Award at Portland
Festival of World Cinema, and semi-finalist in both the Angeles
Awards and the Student Academy Awards
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