You won’t see war anywhere else the way you see it at the Rhode Island International Film Festival.

In the last few years, the festival has become a showcase for thoughtful examinations of what war does to people and how they deal with it. It makes room for films that are edgy and sometimes uncomfortable. At a time of maddening public disregard for the wars we wage, the festival offers a rich mix of reminders of how messy and noble and lonely and life-changing war inevitably becomes.
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“Children of Men” producer Iain Smith has signed on to exec produce K. Lorrel Manning’s film “Happy New Year,” adapted from Manning’s stage play.

Pic is set in a run-down VA hospital and examines the lives of soldiers after they’ve come home from Iraq.

The original “Happy New Year” play premiered last year at the Barrow Group in “The War at Home,” a series of short plays.

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Happy New Year in the Baltimore Sun

Three questions with Guilford-born Michael Cuomo, a 30-year-old Dulaney High and Loyola College grad who stars in K. Lorrel Manning’s short film, Happy New Year. Read More >