THE TREATMENT

NARRATIVE, US, 2005, 86 minutes

Director: Oren Rudavsky

Producer: Jonathan Shoemaker

Production Design: Edwige Geminel

Starring: Famke Janssen, Ian Holm

Jake Singer is an anxious young schoolteacher in New York – barely on speaking terms with his father, recently abandoned by his girlfriend, and heading for a life of compromise and mediocrity. Emotionally paralyzed by his mother’s death, he embarks on a course of psychoanalysis with a maniacal Freudian – Dr. Ernesto Morales, therapist from hell. But when the meets socialite widow Allegra Marshall, and finds himself upwardly mobile in the Manhattan of serious money and glamour – as he bounces from the couch to Allegra’s bed in the allegedly real world and back again – his whole life begins to take on the eerie, over determined quality of an analytic session and he must figure out his escape.

SPONSORED BY CRAIG AUTOMETRICS

• 2006 Tribeca WINNER Best made in New York Narrative Feature

Edwige Geminel, born and raised in France moved to the United States 12 years ago.  She pursued her studies in music and film at The New School in NYC and started to work on her own film projects (a short film and music video).  After few years, she focused her creativity in film and begin working in the art departments of numerous TV Shows (“The Dave Chapelle Show”), music videos, commercials and feature films (The Thing About My Folks with Paul Reiser and Peter Falk).

Her first film as Production Designer was Love, Ludlow (Director: Adrienne Weiss), in 2004 which screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005, followed by: The Favor (Director: Eva Aridjis), which premiered at Cine Vegas 2006, Real La Pelicula (Director: Borja Manso) which received major European distribution; and The Treatment (Director: Oren Rudavski), which was named Best NY, NY film at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival.

She designed a TV show, ("Style Me with Rachel Hunter"), for W&E entertainments as well as a series for the web (“In Men we Trust”); music videos include work for Lenny Kravitz, Rooster, Regina Spektor, etc.; and numerous commercials. She is currently in production on the film Frame of Mind (Director: Carl Evans), a fiction based on the assassination of JFK.  She is also in post production of her own documentary, shot at the World Social Forum, in Venezuela in 2005, where she followed a group of young political activists for a month.