Lady Magdalene's | |
Director: | J. Neil Schulman |
Producer: | J. Neil Schulman |
Starring: | Nichelle Nichols |
Cinematography: | Scott MacDonald |
Editing: | J. Kent Hastings |
Music: | Daniel May |
Distributor: | Amazon Prime |
Runtime: | 116 minutes[1] |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Budget: | $500,000 |
Lady Magdalene's is a film directed, written and produced by J. Neil Schulman and starring Nichelle Nichols (who also received an executive producer credit). The movie was J. Neil Schulman's debut as a director, and Nichelle Nichols' debut as a producer.
Jack Goldwater, an IRS agent on loan to the Federal Air Marshal Service, is relieved of field duty after insulting a powerful U.S. senator, and finds himself exiled to a humiliating desk job in Nevada as the federal receiver managing a legal brothel in tax default, where—with the help of the brothel Madam, Lady Magdalene—he uncovers an Al Qaeda plot to unload a nuclear-bomb-sized crate at Hoover Dam.
The movie was produced by Schulman's own film company Jesulu Productions. After film-festival play the full movie was released on YouTube.
The film won three film-festival awards: "Best Cutting Edge Film" at the 2008 San Diego Film Festival,[2] "Audience Choice -- Feature-Length Narrative Film" at the 2008 Cinema City International Film Festival held on the Universal Hollywood Citywalk,[3] and "Special Jury Prize for Libertarian Ideals" at the 2011 Anthem Film Festival/FreedomFest held at Bally's Las Vegas.[4]