Crazed House Entertainment Announces the Digital Release of Angel’s Tide
Winner Best Picture – Avignon International Film Festival
[Digital Video]
7/29
On July 29, Crazed House Ltd releases Angel’s Tide, written and directed by Zeph E. Daniel, AKA Woody Keith (Society, Bride of ReAnimator), via digital video. In 1995, Hollywood screenwriter Woody Keith made his directorial debut with Angel’s Tide. He eventually left Hollywood and became known as Zeph E. Daniel. Angel’s Tide was forgotten about and never released. While working on the documentary, The Darkside of Society, a work print of Angel’s Tide was discovered. After a viewing, and at the urging of Daniel’s partners at Crazed House, he was able to go back some thirty years later and finish the movie the way he had originally envisioned.
Angel’s Tide tells the story of a woman who is dying and desperate to make things right with her estranged family.
Diane Collier (Patricia Bursiel, Transference), a woman of the 90’s who has achieved almost everything a career woman could want, is stricken with a terminal illness that even her good credit cards cannot protect her from. As she balances denial and acceptance, she tries to “hold on” to her world through indulgence in sex and chocolate and consumption of material goods, while trying to make peace with her father after years of self-imposed exile.
Her father, a painter who never forgave Diane for going into the commercial art field, tries in his own way to welcome her back, but their personalities are on a crash collision course and he is unable to be the willing ear for her secret: that she will soon die. The image of time slipping by is accentuated for Diane when she meets a wise clock-shop owner who rents her an apartment near her parents’ house, while a mysterious angel, a cherubic little girl who appears only to Diane, calls to her, inspiring her to paint a portrait of the angel and to face her destiny.
Friends and family are not enough to help Diane accept her fate and she becomes a kleptomaniac in an effort to hold onto it all, culminating in a bank hostage crisis. Once her father realizes that he has held onto his own dreams for Diane instead of letting her explore her dreams, he relents and tries to assist her in “stealing” her life back. But it is the little angel who finally leads her to the tides and the realm beyond.
View the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rl6PjlLM1A&t=1s
Available on Amazon and other digital services starting July 29.
