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01/24/2025

Mercury Cinema and its related Twitter/X, Facebook and Instagram accounts are shifting to Bluesky! We'll still be active here, but to a lesser extent. Follow our combined Bluesky feed! Find us at https://bsky.app/profile/mercurycinema.bsky.social

Red Blooded Mercury Cinema | 48 Hour Film Project San Diego

10/12/2024

RED BLOODED @ SAN DIEGO FILM WEEK 🎬
Saturday, November 9
6 p.m.
Drama Shorts Block
Digital Gym Cinema
Tickets 🔻
https://sdfilmweek.com/.../overly-dramatic-drama-shorts.../
Film Consortium San Diego Film Week

03/16/2023

School Board President Lois Green on the march. Would you trust her with your children's education? (Denice Riddle as Lois Green in "Red Blooded.")

https://www.mercurycinema.com/red-blooded

03/16/2023

Who is Simon Kim?

03/16/2023

Your children's futures are at stake. When these two collide, watch out ... 😬 (Denice Riddle as Lois Green and Laura Bohlin as Kate Baumann in "Red Blooded.")

03/16/2023

The "Red Blooded" team at work. (As post-production work wraps up on the film, keep an eye on this page for photos from behind the scenes and screen captures from the film!)

01/08/2023

Post-production for "Red Blooded" is entering its final stages. Follow the film's page for updates!

Official film page. An intolerant school board leader faces a reckoning from her family & community.

10/13/2022

The webpage for "Red Blooded" is officially live! More updates in the weeks ahead.

In the film “Red Blooded,” a school board president who has little tolerance for immigrants, students of color, and others, gets the tables turned on her when she learns that her son is a member of the kinds of groups that she and her husband target, leading to her own lesson in acceptance.

10/08/2022

Proof of life for the film "Red Blooded." I won't be releasing much until at least the rough edit is complete, but post-production is well underway. With Denice Riddle and Laura Bohlin (and me with a sunburn).

09/01/2022

Erin Nenow at Old Cal Coffee was a gracious host for filming scenes from "Red Blooded" in early August. If you're in San Marcos, giver her coffees a try! Ascend Roasters Old Cal Coffee & Eatery

Cultivating a welcoming atmosphere is integral at Old Cal Coffee Co. in San Marcos, and co-owner Erin Nenow is hoping to take things a step further by focusing on the power of the bean itself with Ascend Coffee Roasters.

08/22/2022

Director Roman Koenig's post-filming reflections on "Red Blooded." More updates to come now that filming is complete.








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As “Red Blooded” enters post-production, its influence on me personally and in my storytelling is profound.

08/17/2022

"Red Blooded" is now on IMDB! Keep an eye on the page for updates in the following weeks. Post-production work is now underway.








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Red Blooded: Directed by Roman S. Koenig. With Denice Riddle, Laura Bohlin, Sean Dillingham, Cayden Dillingham. A school board president who has little tolerance for immigrants, students of color, and others, gets the tables turned on her when she learns that her son is a member of the kinds of grou...

08/17/2022

Meet the cast Gary Nguyen as one of the High School Students / 4th Freedom! Gary Nguyen born Vy Thien Nguyen, he is a Vietnamese American actor. He moved to the US when he was 17, currently resides in San Diego, California. When he was young, he always enjoyed arts such as singing, acting and voiceover. He caught the acting bug very late after trying out a few background jobs and commercials. He is passion about pop cultures and seeking to be in more projects in the future.

08/16/2022

Meet the Cast: Cody Dupree as one of our High School Students/4th Freedom Group! Cody Dupree is a San Diego native who enjoys the thrill of diving from 10 meter platforms, which feels remarkably like acting. He received his Bachelor of Arts from SDSU in 2016 and has continued studying acting under Jacquelyn Ritz. Some of his favorite roles include Fox in the short film, 4-And-A-Half Star Assassins, Simon Mostyn in Murder on the Nile (PowPAC), and Stanley Jerome in Bright Beach Memoirs (Lamplighter's Theatre).

08/15/2022

Meet the Cast: Maria Sidon as Marge Kleiman! We were fortunate to have Maria as a part of this cast!

08/12/2022

Meet the cast Floyd Strayer as Trey Hollingsworth: Floyd is actively pursuing acting with North County Players, Escondido,
CA. Most notable roles were Mark Twain in "Mark Twain: A
Christmas Carol" written and directed by Charles Carr. Mr. Otto
Frank in "The Diary of Anne Frank" directed by Melissa Malloy.
Lead actor in an Indy horror movie, “One by One”. Currently
Producing and Directing a New Comedy Series “The Smartlys”
both due to be released Season one in 2022. Direct the Short
“Life After Oblivion” for the San Diego Armed Forces Film
Challenge, winning 1st place.