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The story of ON HOLIDAY is told over the corse of 6 parties in 3 years time.

In someways ON HOLIDAY is a classic story of a young couple in love, moving to Los Angeles to find themselves.

Quickly they find themselves in the middle of a community of electronic blues music, drug taking freaks, where a lot of changes and challenges are presented to our hero couple known as Peyton and Tree.

A cast of over 50 characters move in and out of Peyton and Tree's life. When a beautiful girl named "Shee" comes along, Peyton and Tree's world is flipped up side down.

ON HOLIDAY relies on the smaller and funniest moments to push the story forward. ON HOLIDAY celebrates the human relationship, The laughter and the pain in a world that is on high.   





THE MAKING OF ON HOLIDAY

ON HOLIDAY was shot in November of 2009. it was a 10 day shoot over the Thanks Giving holiday.

With over 50 cast members, a crew of 9, no permits, no insurances, a $100.000 dollars of uninsured lighting equipment, a Cannon 7D, and a lot of love is how this film got made.

The screenplay was written in 10. The editing took 10 days. 
It went all very fast. and this speed was possible because of a very thought out plan. a detailed shot list was followed to capture the shots. 

Director Brian McGuire had been living in the location which was his apartment and had been for the last 10 years. 
So a clear vision of how each scene was to take place was in the design. that made the editing go very quickly.

The Makers Of The Party

Brian McGuire
Brian McGuire - Writer, director, actor, musician
Best known for his role as Jacob in the ‘09 Cassavetes Independent Spirit Award winner In Search of a Midnight Kiss; after which, he was compared to a young Bill Murray for his nonchalant comic ease.  

His directorial debut On Holiday premiered at Raindance in 2010 and saw him stand out as one of the “Top Ten New Filmmakers to Watch”.  McGuire and his long time creative partner Bret Roberts (a producer and actor in McGuire's films) were also awarded “Best New Filmmakers” at theDowntown LA Film Festival in the same year. It was a joint award for the two and their two films On Holiday and Everything Will Happen Before You Die which involved each in multiple capacities.
  
This is very fitting for the style in which McGuire flourishes, that of collaboration. In the past four years, Brian has completed five feature films On Holiday, The Black Belle, Carlos Spills The Beans, Prevertere, WiNdOw LiCkEr, 
& 1 World 100 Lonely, Part 1.


Bret Roberts - Producer/Actor
As an actor based in Los Angeles, Bret has appeared in over 60 film and television projects, 6 of which have played the screens of the Sundance Film Festival(NIGHTSTALKER, WHITE OF WINTER, MAY, THE TALENT GIVEN US, THE VIOLENT KIND, THE OFF HOURS). He played Courtney Cox's love interest on FX's DIRT and appeared on TNT's SOUTHLAND last season. Bret began producing in 2007 and has now produced 8 independently funded feature films, ON HOLIDAY being the first of 5 he produced with McGuire at the helm. Bret was recently cast as the lead role in Lucas Pavetto's THE PERFECT HUSBAND coming soon to theaters worldwide.

Bret Roberts

Jared Varava

Cinematographer / Editor
Jared Varava is one of the most talented filmmakers the world has to offer. He is Co-owner on An Illusion Of Movement. Jared has made award winning films such as The Fourth, Tumble Weed, & A Picture Of The Three Of Us. Jared went on to Shoot and Edit Brian McGuire's 2nd feature The Black Belle.

Logan Sparks

Logan Sparks - Producer / Actor
Logan believed in On Holiday at first read. He was looking for his first film to produce when O.H. fell on his lap.
Sparks was hooked and has since produced 8 features including 9 Full Moons. 4 out of the 8 produced by Sparks have been with McGuire as writer/director.