Indie film for Urban Film Festival shot in NE Ohio

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Perk Plaza is a vital a part of Mike Berry’s new movie. The downtown Cleveland location is featured in “Grace and Mercy,” a movie a few girl named Grace who works herself to demise and results in purgatory earlier than discovering out the place she’s going to go within the afterlife. 

What You Want To Know

• The Higher Cleveland City Movie Pageant kicked off Sept. 15
• One movie was shot solely in northeast Ohio
• The movie’s director needed the movie to attach with native viewers

“On this location, we shot the scene the place Grace, she doesn’t understand she’s lifeless and she or he thinks she’s going to work,” Berry mentioned. 

Cleveland is the backdrop to many of the film and all of it takes place in northeast Ohio. Berry mentioned “Grace and Mercy” is a spiritual romantic comedy about free will and it is going to be featured this month on the Higher Cleveland City Movie Pageant.

“Free will is essential to everyone, and I simply needed to inform the story as I felt it,” Berry mentioned. 

One other key location within the movie is the lagoon behind the Cleveland Museum of Artwork, the place a possible love triangle emerges between the characters. 

“We simply thought that with the water, the sweetness, it simply performed into that theme of affection and romance,” Berry mentioned. 

He mentioned the movie competition offers filmmakers an opportunity to showcase their skills. He additionally mentioned taking pictures many of the movie in Cleveland will assist it join with a neighborhood viewers. 

“Everybody in Cleveland is aware of this landmark. That is the artwork museum. And so within the film that is the artwork museum. So you already know, when folks see this, they at all times, they prefer to see acquainted locations,” Berry mentioned. 

Berry mentioned being a filmmaker will not be a job, it’s a calling. He mentioned the competition additionally reveals the grind it takes to shoot an impartial movie. 

“That’s a rollover trip. So for those who’re not good on that trip, that emotional trip, then it’s gonna be arduous to be a filmmaker,” Berry mentioned.