Day on Fire (film)

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Day on Fire

Directed by	Jay Anania
Produced by	William Fisch Larry Rattner Susan R. Rodgers Lina Todd
Written by	Jay Anania
Starring	Olympia Dukakis Carmen Chaplin Martin Donovan
Language	English
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Day on Fire is an American film which was produced by Lodestar Entertainment and filmed in New York City and Israel in 2006. It is written and directed by Jay Anania, stars Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis, Carmen Chaplin and Martin Donovan and is produced by William Fisch and Larry Rattner. The film was scored by John Medeski with vocals by Judy Kuhn.

Day on Fire was screened at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival on May 22, 2006 and will be screened at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival on September 13, 2006. Director Jay Anania and cast Olympia Dukakis, Carmen Chaplin and Martin Donovan will attend the Toronto screening and answer questions from the audience.

Day on Fire tells the story of a singer, a model, an Arab woman journalist, and a physician as they criss-cross New York City over a 12-hour period. Their intersecting lives unfold against the backdrop of a ghastly suicide bombing in Israel, and the strange New York City wanderings of a malevolent Handsome Man, whose predatory intents lend an air of inevitable, horrific violence. Beautifully and hauntingly musical, this thriller also has a political and personal intrigue that mounts inexorably as the sun begins to set on this fateful day. By the time night has fallen in the city, the crossing of these individual fates is sealed. Each of these four women has found their destiny amidst the brutality that the film reveals.