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2018 · Film / video score

The House on Lucky Street

Archive folder: Housing film

Shani Heckman (director, Shanestar Productions); Gabriel Armstrong (editor/score)

A short hybrid documentary-fiction film by Shani Heckman about the last two residents of a haunted Victorian at 13 Lucky Street in San Francisco's Mission District: a 100-year-old ghost, Carmelita Reyes, and a human tenant, Matteo Florez, who unite to fight their eviction. It deals with displacement and gentrification. Ben contributed music, including a theme for the character Matteo, and a Battlehooch track is licensed for the soundtrack.

Premiere
2018
Where
San Francisco, CA
Performances
IMDb lists it as a 2019 short. A Nov 2018 screener password ('LuckySTFest') suggests a festival cut; no festival screenings are publicly documented.
Credits
Director/creator: Shani Heckman (Shanestar Productions). Editing, scoring, mixing and color: Gabriel Armstrong. Music: Ben Juodvalkis (with Gabe Armstrong, including 'Mateo's theme'). Battlehooch track 'Eaves (Tartufi x Battlehooch Remix)' licensed through a music release signed by Ben as a member of Battlehooch; Gabe also used music by Maus Haus. Support: Horizons Foundation, Open Meadows Foundation, San Francisco Arts Commission (per ATA); Heckman received a San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant for it.

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