Sicarii Premiere

It's official. Sicarii will premiere Saturday, April 9 at the Schine Auditorium at Sacred Heart University. It will start at 8pm and will run until around 9pm. All are welcome to attend, bring family, friends, etc. There will be an after party immediately following at Dannyo's in Shelton. See you all there!

The Road To The Premiere

It's been a long arduous journey to complete this movie. Many hurdles, many challenges. Hard to believe it was nearly 2 years ago when Sivak, Z, and myself were having weekly production meetings going through the script and attempting to storyboard whilst sipping beers and eating Asian Bistro takeout.

At this time, all the editing is complete. The only thing left is to make adjustments to the audio tracks. We were fortunate enough to secure Sacred Heart University for the Premiere. We are still working on the date. It will be posted as soon as it is determined. Once more into the sink we go...

Sicarii Soundtrack

The majority of the soundtrack was sourced from my own record collection.

1) Pink Floyd - Sysyphus Part 1
2) Kraftwerk - Midnight
3) Spirit - The Other Song
4) Galt MacDermott - Woe Is Me
5) Klaatu - Little Neutrino
6) Tim Hecker - Dungeoneering
7) Steeleye Span - The Blacksmith
8) Stars Of The Lid - A Meaningful Moment
9) Herbie Hancock - A Wandering Spirit
10) Tangerine Dream - Tangram Part 2
11) Renaissance - Rahan Kahn
12) Brian Eno - In Dark Trees
13) Paul Winter - Ballad In 7/8
14) Brian Eno - 2/1
15) Stars Of The Lid - Ballad For Heavy Lids
16) Tim Hecker - Chimeras
17) Paul White - A Silent Cry
18) Can - Vitamin C
19) Donovan - Get Thy Bearings
20) Brian Eno - The Big Ship
21) O.C. Smith - Little Green Apples

Trailer Music:
Ennio Morricone - Dies Irae Psichedelico

Sicario - A Look Back

Sicario from Keith Zdrojowy on Vimeo.

The World Of Sicarii

Sicarii picks up the morning after the events in Sicario, sort of like a “what if” scenario. What if there was a next day? What would happen? Where would the story take us? This was the driving force behind the sequel.

With Sicario, we were creating the mythology of a day in the life of a hitman with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and how that affected his work. You are taken through his process of being hired for a job and then the steps to carry it out. Somewhere along the line, things go wrong and the fate of the hitman ultimately is left to the audience.

Sicario ended with a lot of unanswered questions and left a great deal to the audience to piece everything together. Did he live or die? I always liked to think that he lived. He lived because the whole thing was a test to see what he was made of. And he passed.

There was never any intention of making a sequel, yet something was poking at me to answer these questions and dissect the mythology. To bring the players behind the scenes to the foreground and to also draw new players into the world.

Cast/Crew

John Sivak...........The Hitman
Dave Okaty..........Frank O’Malley
Mike Monks...........Detective Donald Adams
Ed Cranston Sr.......George Reed (The Boss)
John Guedes..........The Swordsman
Steve Rodriguez......The Henchman
Chris Cortigiano.....Detective Richard Bukowski
Mike Cranston........Detective Sergeant Patrick Murphy
Erik Haslob..........Vlad
Justin Polseno......Tony
Nick Sulik...........Young George Reed
Ryan Healey..........The Guy Who Dies
Brian Gresko.........Lab Tech 1
Justin Colby.........Lab Tech 2
Dan Caruso...........The Unfortunate Son
Marie Monks..........Mrs. Bukowski

Director Of Photography – Keith Zdrojowy
http://www.keithmichaelproductions.com
*Filmed using 2 Panasonic DVX100 cameras

Editing - Keith Zdrojowy & John Guedes
*Edited using Final Cut Pro

Writer & Director - John Guedes

Trailer