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Official trailer for “Triggers” (2020)
An aspiring conservative politician who attempts to run for office whilst avoiding dealing with gun violence and personal tragedy in the age of right-wing media.
New “Triggers” poster!
The poster for “Triggers” has been upgraded. Enjoy.
Mystery Dinner Studios Logo
Each movie features a variation of our logo. Here is the version featured in the opening credits of “Triggers”.
Best Producer Annual Award Finalist
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Annual Finalist Award Nominee on 3/2/19
Triggers was selected as an annual award finalist for Best Producer at the 2019 Oniros Film Awards
The Oniros Film Awards™ is an International Monthly and Annual IMDb qualifying competition based in Aosta, Italy, which celebrates films from all around the world with awards in different categories and genres. The OFA allows filmmakers to submit their projects to get them judged by Award-winning industry professionals specialized in various fields and compete with other talented filmmakers. Our mission is to discover high quality and ambitious films, to promote filmmakers’ works and to help them realize their dreams. The Oniros Film Awards™ is all about Dreams (ὄνειρος = oneiros, Dream in Greek language) and is conceived by Dreamers for Dreamers.
Dream Big, always!
Best Writing Award Nomination
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Award Winner on 5/26/19
Emily Hileman won the Best Actress award for her portrayal of Heather Shaver in Triggers at the Under The Stars International Film Festival
Best Director Award Nomination
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Award Nomination on 5/26/19
Triggers was nominated for the Best Director award at the Under The Stars International Film Festival
Best Feature Award Nomination
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Award Nomination on 5/26/19
Triggers was nominated for the Best Feature award at the Under The Stars International Film Festival
Best Cinematography Award Nomination
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Award Nomination on 5/26/19
Triggers was nominated for the Best Cinematography award at the Under The Stars International Film Festival
Best Original Idea Award Nomination
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Award Nomination on 5/26/19
Triggers was nominated for the Best Original Idea award at the Under The Stars International Film Festival
Best Sound Award Nomination
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Award Nomination on 5/26/19
Triggers was nominated for the Best Sound award at the Under The Stars International Film Festival
Best Writing Award Nomination
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Award Nomination on 5/26/19
Triggers was nominated for the Best Writing award at the Under The Stars International Film Festival
Under The Stars IFF Official Selection
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Official Selection on 5/18/19
Under The Stars International Film Festival is an international event. We accept local, national and international films. Film industry specialists watch films and videos and give notes and scores. Once a year we screen selected work at the live event at Piccolo Teatro Di Bari “Eugenio D’Attoma”.
Best Feature Film Mystery / Thriller
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Award Winner on 4/22/19
Triggers won the Best Feature Film Mystery / Thriller Silver Award at the Queen Palm International Film Festival
Best Sound Gold Award Winner
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Award Winner on 4/16/19
Triggers won Best Sound at the Global Independent Film Awards
Best Visual Effects Silver Award
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Award Winner on 4/16/19
Triggers won the Silver Award for Best Visual Effects at the Global Independent Film Awards
Best Feature Film Award Winner
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Award Winner on 4/12/19
Triggers won the Best Feature Film at The American Film Awards
GIFF Award(s) Winner
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Award Winner on 4/10/19
Triggers won at least 1 award at The Global Independent Film Awards. The awards will be announced 4/15/19. This laurel is a temporary placeholder.
The Global Independent Film Awards is an online awards competition dedicated to recognizing screenwriters, filmmakers, and actors for high quality work. We understand the amount of effort, commitment, and dedication that goes into creating high caliber films, scripts, and web content. Likewise, we realize how important it is for creators who achieve success in various filmmaking aspects, to be recognized for their successes. This recognition acts as independent corroboration for a writer, actor, or filmmaker that demonstrates their skill and expertise to studios, production companies, casting directors, producers, and even potential investors.
QPIFF Official Selection
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Official Crown Selection on 4/9/19
Queen Palm International Film Festival is a bi-monthly film, music, and screenwriting competition with a live Annual Screening & Awards Show Event in Palm Springs, California. QPIFF honors films from around the world with a vast array of awards in different categories and genres. Our mission is to discover diverse new voices & to promote artists’ work through numerous platforms.
Best Director Award Winner
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Award Winner on 4/1/19
Triggers won the Best Director Award at the CV Indie Film Awards
Best Editing Award Winner
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Award Winner on 4/1/19
Triggers won the Best Editing Award at the CV Indie Film Awards
Best Producer Award Winner
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Award Winner on 4/1/19
Triggers won the Best Producer Award at the CV Indie Film Awards
Best Drama Award Nomination
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Award Nomination on 4/1/19
Triggers was nominated for the Best Screenwriter award at the CV Indie Film Awards
Best Screenwriter Award Nomination
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Award Nomination on 4/1/19
Triggers was nominated for the Best Screenwriter award at the CV Indie Film Awards
Best Film Score Award Nomination
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Award Nomination on 4/1/19
Triggers was nominated for the Best Film Score award at the CV Indie Film Awards
IOWF Official Selection
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Official Selection on 3/29/19
IOWF® is an international web festival dedicated to the promotion of short films, new media and digital arts, and independent feature films.
Now in its 5th year, the International Online Web Fest® has grown into an internationally respected annual event. It is one of the few web-fest that is allowing to submit all three categories: Web-Series, Short Films, and Feature Films.
The festival’s growing reputation is built upon a commitment to discovering new and diverse voices, with 99% of the lineup coming directly from submissions. #IOWF is a festival which specifically helps independent filmmakers to raise their visibility through the web.
Best Feature Film Award Winner
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Award Winner on 3/28/19
Triggers won the Best Feature Film Made With Over $10K award at The Monkey Bread Tree Film Awards
Best Actor Award Nomination
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Nominated on 3/28/19
Triggers actor Tahir Moore was nominated for Best Actor at The Monkey Bread Tree Film Awards
Triggers trailer is live!
An aspiring conservative politician attempts to run for office whilst avoiding dealing with gun violence and personal tragedy in the age of right-wing media.
Executive Produced by Chris Carthern & Tony Aaron II
Written and Directed by Tony Aaron II
Produced by Mystery Dinner Productions
Best Social Justice Film Award Winner
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Award Winner on 3/10/19
Triggers was awarded Best Social Justice Film at the Oniros Film Awards
Best 1st Time Producer Award Winner
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Award Winner on 3/10/19
Triggers was awarded Best 1st Time Producer at the Oniros Film Awards
Best Soundtrack Honorable Mention
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Award Finalist Selection on 3/10/19
Triggers was awarded Honorable Mention for Best Soundtrack at the Oniros Film Awards
Best Feature Film Award Winner
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Award Winner on 3/9/19
Triggers was awarded Best Feature Film at the Life After Life Film Awards
Triggers won 2 awards at the Oniros Film Awards today!
Triggers was awarded Best Social Justice Film and Best 1st Time Producer, as well as honorable mention for Best Soundtrack today by the Oniros Film Awards.
Triggers was also a finalist for the Best Director, Best Indie Film, and Best Poster categories.
We are thankful for the awards and recognition and we hope the positive momentum for Triggers continues throughout the rest of the year.
The 1st review of Triggers is out!
The Rome Independent Prisma Film Awards’ review of Triggers is on their website. Check it out:
Click here to read Prisma’s review of Triggers
Triggers awarded Best Feature Film by Life After Life Film Festival!
Triggers was awarded it’s a 1st place award for the 1st time today in the Best Feature Film category at Life After Life Film Festival! We are very proud.
Their feedback said, amongst other things, they connected with the intent behind, and execution of, the Rush Jones character in the movie and they support the necessity and value of shining a light on the hatred and methods behind his words.
LALFF Official Selection
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Official Selection on 3/4/19
Upstart film festival encouraging and supporting diversity in movies based out of Los Angeles, CA.
Best Director Award Finalist
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Award Finalist Selection on 3/8/19
Triggers was selected as an award finalist for Best Director at the Oniros Film Awards
Best 1st Time Producer Award Finalist
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Award Finalist Selection on 3/8/19
Triggers was selected as an award finalist for Best 1st Time Producer at the Oniros Film Awards
Best Social Justice Film Award Finalist
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Award Finalist Selection on 3/8/19
Triggers was selected as an award finalist for Best Social Justice Film Award at the Oniros Film Awards
Best Soundtrack Award Finalist
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Award Finalist Selection on 3/8/19
Triggers was selected as an award finalist for Best Soundtrack at the Oniros Film Awards
Best Indie Film Award Finalist
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Award Finalist Selection on 3/8/19
Triggers was selected as an award finalist for Best Indie Film Award at the Oniros Film Awards
Best Poster Award Finalist
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Award Finalist Selection on 3/8/19
Triggers was selected as an award finalist for Best Poster at the Oniros Film Awards
Rome Independent Prisma Awards
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Official Selection on 3/4/19
Very rapidly PRISMA has become one of the best monthly festivals on Filmfreeway, internationally recognized by the Internet Movie Database, the most important website in the world for films and professionals of the industry.
We know that producing an independent movie is hard. Distributing it is even harder. It’s getting harder and harder to recognize which festival could be really valuable for your distribution process. Many festival are very costly and give you little or no chance to get selected, specially if you don’t have a distributor that works on your movie.
We will watch your movie. Even if you are not recognized. Even if you’re alone. Even if you did it all by yourself. We will evaluate it by watching its qualities. And our submission fees are among the lowest in the market.
Oniros Film Awards Official Selection
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Official Selection on 3/2/19
The Oniros Film Awards™ is an International Monthly and Annual IMDb qualifying competition based in Aosta, Italy, which celebrates films from all around the world with awards in different categories and genres. The OFA allows filmmakers to submit their projects to get them judged by Award-winning industry professionals specialized in various fields and compete with other talented filmmakers. Our mission is to discover high quality and ambitious films, to promote filmmakers’ works and to help them realize their dreams. The Oniros Film Awards™ is all about Dreams (ὄνειρος = oneiros, Dream in Greek language) and is conceived by Dreamers for Dreamers.
Dream Big, always!
DMOFF Official Selection
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Official Selection on 2/28/19
Direct Monthly Online Film Festival also know as DMOFF is an International online film festival designed for filmmakers to promote their work through an online platform.
Direct Monthly Online Film Festival is a monthly international event. We accept short films, documentaries, animations, music video and web series of any genre. Each month our judges, watch, review and rate the submitted films.
Accolade Global Competition Awards
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Award of Recognition on 2/12/19
Triggers received an Award of Recognition at the Accolade Global Competition Awards
IndieFEST Film Awards
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Award of Recognition on 2/6/19
Triggers received an Award of Recognition at the IndieFEST Film Awards
Director Tony Aaron II
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Opening credits of “Triggers” indie feature film
Executive Producer Chris Carthern
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Opening credits of “Triggers” indie feature film
Sharon Ward Interview
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Frame grab from “Triggers” indie feature film
Backyard
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Frame grab from “Triggers” indie feature film
The Aftermath
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Frame grab from “Triggers” indie feature film
The Shed
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Frame grab from “Triggers” indie feature film
Peter Shaver Interview
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Frame grab from “Triggers” indie feature film
Going Viral
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Frame grab from “Triggers” indie feature film
Sexual assault drama “Confessional” is coming…
We are currently in pre-pre-production on the indie feature film, “Confessional”, a drama about woman who moves to Mexico to get away from the growing fame and fortune of her sexual assaulter but is ultimately forced to confront him and his actions.
More info to come later…
Our next movie will be the complicated immigration family drama, “Playa”
We are currently in pre-pre-production on the indie feature film, “Playa”, a drama about a white American woman in Mexico forced to deal with the atrocities and privilege of her past to have any chance for love, community, or family in her present and future.
More info to come later…
Filming In Horse Stable
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On the set of “Triggers” indie feature film
Filming In Peter’s Kitchen
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On the set of “Triggers” indie feature film
Make-up For Interview In High Rise Office
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On the set of “Triggers” indie feature film
Campaign Office
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On the set of “Triggers” indie feature film
Filming In Garage
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On the set of “Triggers” indie feature film
Our RED Epic Dragon 6K Camera
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Camera equipment from “Triggers” indie feature film
Location Sound Recorder
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Sound equipment from “Triggers” indie feature film
Filming In Barn
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On the set of “Triggers” indie feature film
Tony Aaron II
Activist Filmmaker
Chris Carthern
Executive Producer
Born in Atlanta in 1984, Chris Carthern began a career as a network engineer in 2006. Carthern studied computer science at Morehouse College and has a MS in system engineering from the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He is the author of Cisco Networks and Reflections from Shots by Shinobi. After re-connecting with Tony Aaron II he decided to produce independent movies with Mystery Dinner Studios. He was drawn to producing film with the thought of focusing on addressing social justice issues. His producing feature film debut is Triggers.
Otis Jones
Composer
Otis is a Musician and Dancer, with a BPA (Hons) degree from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds. He has worked as part of a Dance and Music duo called Snakebox since his graduation, exploring the synergy of music and movement, and taking lessons and techniques from both to further his artistic craft. He has composed scores for independent contemporary dance pieces and films, with artists such as Ciemulator Dance Theatre, Mobius Dance and Jamaal Burkmar. He also works as a composer for independent feature films, and online advertisements. Otis has much musical experience as a multi-instrumentalist, which he has utilised not only in his composition work, but also performing with bands (both original work and covers) and his work as an accompanist for the Northern School of Contemporary Dance.
