Final screen title for film - '20 Ways'

‘20 Ways’ replaces the original working title ‘WHAT? or A road trip to Europe’.

The short comic satire ‘20 Ways’ explores the absurd humor of a newspaper article that proposed twenty ways to spot an illegal. We start in a B&W world, seemingly a period story about Hymie, his family, and their horse - a Jewish family who are stopped by a Nazi border guard as they are fleeing Europe in the 1930s. The film takes an off-the-wall look at the contemporary issue of immigration using humor, music and a quirky visual style to open up the subject. Shot on film in New Mexico by International award winning writer & director Peter M Kershaw with an original score by Emmy winning Oscar nominated composer Gerald Fried.

In 1976, Gerald was nominated for an Oscar for Best Music: Original Score for the 1974 documentary, Birds Do It, Bees Do It. He was nominated for a Grammy, and won the Emmy award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition for a Series for the critically acclaimed 1977 miniseries, Roots.

Composer and multi-award winner Gerald Fried has pretty well been, seen and done that, when it comes to film scores.

'20 Ways' marks a return to scoring for film with 10 original pieces of music created for '20 Ways'. This film marks Gerald's 60th year in the business and a landmark in his career.

Having, since 1995 turned down numerous offers to produce a score Gerald said "What appealed with '20 Ways' was the original screenplay and the comic nonsense, absurd and visual quirk of the film". Director Peter M. Kershaw said "The film's score had to reflect the period, give a sense of a European setting, echo the silent B&W world and let the audience know that as a satire it is comical and fine to laugh, Gerald's score does all these things and is a work of beauty in it's own right."

To give the film it's distinct look we spent a deal of time researching B&W photography from the 1930s studying European photography and employ rare lenses like the Cooke 65mm to generate a sense of period. The film was processed at Fotokem Labs, LA and then graded with a colorist at Technicolor NY.