“Standing as a good example of the cinema of cruelty, FALL TIME is a stunning examination of loss of innocence in the 1950’s. It’s not a coming-of-age ode, but coming-of-age rumination. FALL TIME takes crime seriously, and in doing so, it’s more repellently scary than most horror films. Directed with sadistic relish by Paul Warner.” -- TV GUIDE-2008 IFC PREMIERE
“FALL TIME is original and stylized filmmaking at its best. Made with the kind of creative sensibility and attention to detail that distinguishes it from the mass marketplace.” -- Geoffrey Gilmore-Director of the Sundance Film Festival
"Warner's distanced and dryly funny compositions nicely spoof the false innocence of the age. -- The Hollywood Reporter
The venerable Beverly Hills-based Theatre Forty ensemble, which gained its early reputation for its facility with the classics, takes a bold step into the world of expressionistic/surrealistic drama with the U.S. premiere outing of “The Wedding Dress,” by Brazilian playwright Nelson Rodrigues (1912-80). Director Paul Warner makes startling and impressive use of the imaginative design elements of Amy Danger (set) and Mark Bridges (costumes) to evoke a powerful sense of journeying into the “shadowlands of the unconscious mind
Directed by Paul Warner, Kaya is written by Jerome Parker and features music and lyrics by Anna Jacobs. Set prior to the dawn of the AIDS epidemic, the 25-minute film sheds light on New York City’s underground disco scene and the primarily LGBTQ youth, many of whom are homeless.
Kaya follows a first generation South African immigrant teenager living under the protective wing of her older brother (Onaodowan), who risks the safety of her strict cultural upbringing to find a place of her own in the nightlife scene and to ultimately transcend her past.
