The Test – Cineverus

August 26, 2023February 2, 2024

THE TEST Wins Best Screenplay At RT 22 Filmworks Film Festival

We are thrilled to announce that our short film, The Test, won the Best Screenplay award at the Rt Filmwerks Film Festival this evening in Bethlehem, PA.

Cineverus’s Rich Drees, who wrote The Test, stated –

I am absolutely honored and gobsmacked to have won this award, especially as there were so many great shorts at this festival. It really showed the breadth of talent we have in eastern and northeastern Pennsylvania and the surrounding regions. I have to share this award firstly with my best friend, creative partner and not-so-coincidentally the director of The Test, Natasha Bogutzki, who gave suggestions that helped polish the final drafts. I also share this with our cast and crew, whose own talents and work brought this story to life. Without all of you, this would still just be a PDF file in a folder on my laptop. And finally, my thanks to everyone at Route 22 Filmworks Film Fest who were responsible for for awarding to this to us.

May 31, 2023January 26, 2024

THE TEST Screens At The Block Island Film Festival

Our short film The Test screened today at the Block Island Film Festival in Rhode Island today, with writer/producer Rich Drees on hand to introduce the film and to participate in a question and answer period after the screening.

Not only was it a great screening, with a nice crowd at the venue at at the Block Island Maritime Institute, but just a beautiful day for the ferry ride to Block Island and then back to the mainland for dinner with a nice bowl of New England Clam Chowder!

We’d like to thank festival director Cash Shuman for inviting us and Kristin Carey and Henry LeBlanc for being great screening hosts/Q&A moderators! Hopefully we’ll be back again to see you all next year!

March 25, 2020March 25, 2020

Congratulations To NEPTA Nominees Solarek, Vandermark and Beppler

Cineverus would like to congratulate three of our cast members for their nominations in this year’s Northteast Pennsylvania Theater Alliance Awards.

First up is Tim Solarek, who received two nominations in the Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy for his work in productions of I Hate Hamlet and Brighton Beach Memoirs. Tim is the male lead in our upcoming short The Injured Digit.

John “Bepp” Beppler is nominated in the Best Lead Actor in a Comedy for the production of Almost, Maine, while Joyce Vandermark is nominate d for co-directing Sherlock Holmes and the Scarlet Avenger. Both Beppler and Joyce can be seen in our upcoming short The Test.

Best of luck to all three when the awards are handed out on June 7. We are so honored to work with you!

April 14, 2019September 5, 2019

And That’s A Wrap On THE TEST

And that is a wrap on our second short, THE TEST! We can not express out gratitude for the hard work and talent they brought to bring out vision to life over the last few weekends of our shoot.

March 10, 2019September 5, 2019

Second Weekend Of Shooting On THE TEST Has Wrapped

And that’s the second weekend of shooting on THE TEST in books. Thanks to our hardworking crew for the hustle that helped us get everything we needed in record time.

February 9, 2019September 5, 2019

Cameras Roll On THE TEST

While our first project, THE INJURED DIGIT, makes its way through editing and post-production, we’re starting shooting on our next project, the short film THE TEST. Director Natasha Bogutzki will be doing double duty in front of the camera as well as playing co-lead Lucy alongside Tyler Kuchar. Producer Rich Drees is the writer behind this one and they are joined by director of photography Jonathan Edwards, gaffer Jared Sokirka, sound man Nick Blockus and clapper/loader Paulette Edwards.