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Sneaky Business: An Offshore Account of Human Trafficking---Broadway Style will be premiering April 5th at 8pm at The Stonewall Inn Showroom, hosted by filmmakers George Sanders and Shawn Curran, who have won 11 awards for their work with Sneaky Snake, as well as an "Integral Realization Award" from Granada, Spain, a "Special Mention" from The San Francisco Short Film Festival and two second-place awards: one for "Best Picture "and one for "Best Director," from The International Filmmakers Festival in Margate, England.
Sneaky Business takes place on board the S.S. Hookacanuck, where a green sock-puppet snake named "Sneaky" smuggles singing New York City stowaways into Canada for basic Human Rights.
In this 24-minute musical-comedy short film, Sneaky Snake (a green sock-puppet snake), stars as an altruistic people-smuggler who assists twelve singers from NYC in sneaking into Canada for free health care, Gay marriage, medical marijuana and a sensible government. If you haven't seen Sneaky before, he's always up to something a little subversive.
Sneaky's last film, Sneaky Snake: Lost in the Holy Land, won ten awards at various domestic and international film festivals, addressing the hot topics of genital mutilation, religious zealotry and war, all with hilarious results. This film addresses the issues that have been concerning liberal US citizens for the past few years now, namely:the war, health care and Gay marriage. But that's not to say that this is a serious film; it's a madcap romp, a slapstick fantasy, a vaudevillian-comedy, cult-film, with singing. With more than a nod to The Marx Brothers' Monkey Business, writer/directors George Sanders and Shawn Curran have come up with a laugh-out-loud look at the disenchanted in the 21st century who must resort to human trafficking in order to secure their human rights. Filmed guerilla-style with no budget or crew, Sanders and Curran assembled many of their talented co-workers from New York City's piano-bar community to act and sing in the comedy. Says Sanders, "Everyone is unique and so much fun to work with in the piano-bars. We couldn't wait to do a film together." Joining the creative team again is composer/musician Bobby Peaco, who wrote and arranged all the music, and with whom Sanders and Curran have performed live for over ten years.
The plot is simple: Frustrated with US policy, Sneaky and the stowaways have hidden themselves in a large box of pickled herring on board the S.S. Hookacanuck, en route to Halifax, Canada. They all have paid the infamous people-smuggler, Sister Ping, a substantial amount to deliver fake Canadian passports upon arrival in Halifax., but the ship's Ensign hears the muffled sounds of their singing, and now the gang must leave their hiding place and split up. It is then that Sneaky's adventures get him into hot water with the Captain, crew and staff, and eventually bring him face-to-face with "Miss Celine Dion," who happens to be on the same ship. Without giving the ending away, let's just say that Sister Ping is not to be trusted, and the fate of our stowaways rests in the hearts of empathetic Canadians.
"This film is our love letter to Canada, our sister country," says Sanders, "our sensible sister. The member of the family who paid attention in school and doesn't obsess over fashion magazines or watch Fox News like we do. She's compassionate. We love her for that."
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