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Outsourced
John Jeffcoat and George Wing will be in attendance to present the film and a meal specially created in collaboration with Volterra's Chef Don Curtiss.
A pitch-perfect comedy about a hot-button issue, John Jeffcoat’s feature debut signals a bright new talent in the ranks of American independent filmmakers.
Todd (Josh Hamilton) heads up the sales department in a Seattle-based company that sells cheap novelty products. After his entire department is outsourced, he succeeds in hanging on to his job only by agreeing to go to India to train his own replacement. Completely at sea in the climate and culture, and rattled by the locals’ invariable mispronunciation of his name as “Mr. Toad,” his befuddlement is matched by the young Indian workers in the company’s Mumbai office, who fail to understand why anyone would want the worthless products they are being trained to purvey.
Rescue is at hand in the shape of the beautiful and capable Asha (Ayesha Dharker), who shows him what he needs to learn about India to know how to motivate his workers. Inevitably, love rears its head as Todd and Asha begin to gaze past their cultural differences.
Mercifully, and not nearly so inevitably, Jeffcoat and cowriter George Wing eschew the political didacticism and obvious stereotypes that you might fear from a modern work place or cross-cultural comedy. Instead, they craft Outsourced as a genuine crowd-pleaser, humming with real warmth and charm, winning performances and an agile plot that keeps the audience guessing.
John Jeffcoat
John Jeffcoat was born in New York and currently resides in Seattle, Washington, where he has been an active member of the film community.
George Wing
A current resident of Seattle, George Wing grew up in Newton, Massachusetts and attended New York University’s film school.
Sponsors:
4Culture, Artist Trust, Brotherton Cadillac Buick Pontiac GMC, Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, Washington State Arts Commission
Cast & Crew
Director: John Jeffcoat
Producer: Tom Gorai, David Skinner, George Wing
Editor: Brian Berdan
Screenwriter: George Wing, John Jeffcoat
Cinematographer: Teodoro Maniaci
Music: B.C. Smith
Principal Cast: Josh Hamilton, Ayesha Dharker, Larry Pine, Asif Basra, Matt Smith
Filmography: Debut Feature Film
World Sales: Cinemavault Releasing
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