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Antonio Filming New Feature Film

50th Anniversary of Putney Swope
Showing in Theaters Across the Country

Presented as part of Art House Theater Day, an annual celebration of art house and indie theaters.

A touchstone of countercultural cinema, Robert Downey Sr.'s satirical masterpiece tracks the bizarre rise and fall of African American advertising executive Putney Swope. When he's accidentally made chief of his Madison Avenue firm, Swope (Arnold Johnson, with his voice dubbed by Downey) fires his lily-white coworkers, hires a staff of young, black, politically-conscious executives, and renames the company Truth and Soul, Inc. Swope and his compatriots turn the industry on its head and draw the ire of the government with a series of outrageous, politically incorrect commercials (peppered throughout the film like transmissions from a bizarro version of 60s America). Skewering everyone from establishment wonks to far-out revolutionaries, this irreverent, unsettling film leaves no corner of American society unscathed. Fifty years after its release, PUTNEY SWOPE still has the power to shock and delight.

The film will be preceded by a brand new video essay featuring exclusive interviews with writer/director Robert Downey Sr.

Restoration by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation, with funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation.

Cast: Arnold Johnson, Laura Greene, Buddy Butler, Antonio Fargas

"Funny, sophomoric, brilliant, obscene, disjointed, marvelous, unintelligible, and relevant." - The New York Times

Calendar

2018

November 9
Hillside's Opening Night Gala - Durham, North Carolina

November 3
Saint Louis Black Repertory Theatre Gala and Award Show - St. Louis, Missouri

October 26-28
MCM Comic Con - London

October 5-7
Galveston Island Film Festival - Galveston, Texas

August 16-25
Action on Film - Las Vegas, Nevada

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June 15-17
Trifecta 2018 - Starsky & Hutch reunion and fan event
New Orleans, Louisiana

April 27-29
East Coast Comicon - Antonio, Paul and David reunion! Meadowlands Exposition Center, New Jersey

April 4-8
Cannes International Series Festival
Cannes, French Riviera

February 24
Kemit in the Desert - West Las Vegas Library, Las Vega, Nevada

January 15
Ambassador for the 35th Annual Martin Luther King Junior Parade
Las Vegas, Nevada

2017

November 8
Chicago's Cinepocalpse - Music Box Theater, Chicago, Illinois

November 5
Vegas Cares Benefit Concert - Venetian Theater, Las Vegas, Nevada

November 4
Crossin' Over in Concert - St. Louis, Missouri

October 29
The Carney Awards - Santa Monica

October 24
Justine for Kids Gala - Brussels, Belgium

Coming Soon!
Beyond Skyline

October 22, 2017
The Dream Awards - Las Vegas, Nevada

September 21, 2017
Sutter Creek International Film Festival - Sutter Creek, California

September 23, 2017
L'Applause Tribute - New Orleans, Louisiana

July 8
Broadway in the H.O.O.D. - The Smith Center, Las Vegas, Nevada

June 16-20
Monte-Carlo Television & Film Festival - Monte-Carlo, Monaco

June 13
TV Series - Cherif - Lyon, France

June 6
Pop Life Radio Interview on WATB on 1420 AM - Atlanta

April 21-23
Chiller Theater Expo - Hilton Parsippany, Parsippany, New Jersey
Chiller Dinner with Antonio Fargas and Paul Michael Glaser

March18-19
MCM Comic Con - Birmingham, England

March 11-12
MCM Comic Con - Liverpool, England

February 11-12
Silent Waterfalls - A Gospel Stage Play - (produced by Fran Hall and Antonio Fargas) - Summerlin Library & Performing Arts Center, Las Vegas

February 2
Talking About Cars

January 16
Ambassador for the 35th Annual Martin Luther King Junior Parade
Las Vegas, Nevada

January 6-8
The Hollywood Show - The Westin, Los Angeles

2016

December 18
2nd Annual Silver Bells Screening & Gift Giveaway - West Las Vegas Arts Center

November 5-6
Brazos Valley Comic Con - Brazos Valley Expo, Texas

September 18
Orchard Beach Classic Car & Motorcycle Show - Bronx, New York