Jonny Orsini (Eddie Van Buren) is so thankful to have the opportunity to help tell this story. Film credits: Generation Um (opposite Keanu Reeves), Rocksteady (Woodstock Film Festival). Theater: Be a Good Little Widow (Ars Nova, NY Times Critics Pick), Banished Children of Eve (Irish Rep), Fifth of July (T. Schreiber Studio), The Little Dog Laughed (Hartford Theatre Works), and After Ashley (IRNE nominated, Best Actor). www.jonnyorsini.com.
Emily Morden (Candy) was raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She is a graduate of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School for Music and Art and the Performing Arts where she studied drama for four years. Emily’s theater credits include Counsellor at Law (Dorothy Dwight), and I Never Saw Another Butterfly. Emily’s film and television credits include One Life to Live (Liz), Done to Death (Hope), and an Obama promo directed by Doug Liman (Swingers, The Bourne Identity). For her first film, Emily couldn’t feel luckier to be a part of such an amazing, profound project. Thank you so much to Lauren, Jeff, Brigitte, Ian, Laura, Tophy, Steph and everyone on set who made this film such an incredible experience. Thank you to our brave soldiers and the real Eddie Van Buren for his inspiration. And most of all, thank you mom and dad for all your support, belief, and love.
Lauren Wolkstein (director) was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland by her mother, a schoolteacher, and her father, a colonel in the Air Force who served in several wars, including the Gulf War and the current Iraq War. Lauren received her B.A. in computer science from Duke University and won the Duke Undergraduate Filmmaker Award. Lauren lived in Los Angeles for a year assisting film producer Chris Hanley at Muse Productions (The Virgin Suicides, American Psycho, Buffalo '66). She is one of the recipients of the 2007 Lifetime Movie Network Student Filmmaker Award for her first short film at Columbia, We Three. Her last short film, Dandelion Fall, won awards at several film festivals last year and was picked up for distribution by Wolfe Releasing. Lauren will graduate from Columbia University's School of the Arts in May 2010 with an M.F.A. in Film Directing. Brigitte Liebowitz (producer) received the RHI Entertainment Producers Development Award for Cigarette Candy, and the film is fiscally sponsored by IFP. Lauren is currently writing and developing two feature films.
Jeffrey Sousa (writer) grew up in the suburbs of Massachusetts before spending a year abroad in Spain in high school. After that he studied philosophy at the University of Chicago. He’s worked as a translator, interpreter, and elementary school teacher in rural Japan where his short Souseki’s Third Dream won Best Film at the Aomori Independent Film Festival. Jeff now attends Film School at Columbia University and resides in Brooklyn where he writes full time.

Photo courtesy of Eric Michael Pearson
Brigitte Liebowitz (producer) completed her undergraduate work at the University of Southern California with a major in Writing for Screen and Television. Before coming to Columbia University, Brigitte worked for the American Film Institute with the Directing Workshop for Women as a production coordinator and a production manager. Brigitte became attracted to Cigarette Candy because of the unique angle taken in telling a story of war and homecoming, adolescence and adult hood, and the delicate space between the two. For her work as a producer in the development process of Cigarette Candy, Brigitte was awarded the RHI Producer’s Development Award at the 2008 Columbia University Film Festival , endowing the project with funds to make this film. Brigitte has been awarded the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts Grant, The Marguerite Roberts Scholarship for Screenwriting, a J.Paul Getty Grant for Multiculturalism in the Arts, and a Producing Fellowship at Columbia University.
CAST AND CREDITS
Dedicated to the Loving Memory of Lewis Cole & Private First Class George J. Howell

Eddie
Candy
Mason (Eddie's Father)
Yvonne (Eddie's Mother)
Christina
Anderson (Eddie's Teen Friend)
Wesley (Eddie's Teen Friend)
Sheila (Candy's Mother)
Mrs. Gordon (Lady with Beehive)

Directed by
Written by
Produced by

Director of Photography
Production Designer
Sound Designer

Casting Director
Extras Casting by
Editors


First Assistant Director
Second Assistant Director

Associate Producer
Unit Production Manager
Production Coordinators


First Assistant Camera
Second Assistant Camera
Gaffer
Best Boy Electric
Key Dolly Grip
Electric
Best Boy Grip
Grip
Swing
Sound Recordist

Art Director
Set Decorators

Art Dept. Associate
Costume Designer
Key Makeup and Hair
Makeup and Wardrobe Assistant
Art Dept. Production Assistant
Key Production Assistant
Production Assistants

Catering & Craft Service
Stunt Coordinator
Script Supervisor
Still Photographer
Post-production RED conform by
Colorist

Jonny Orsini
Emily Morden
Andrew VanDusen
Michelle Sims
Erin Baltsar
Richard Jordan
Tom Crozier
Lee Burkett
JoAnn Basist

Lauren Wolkstein
Jeff Sousa
Brigitte Liebowitz

Ian Bloom
Laura Graham
Tim Korn

Maria Higgins
Tatiana Lamela-Rabell
Lauren Wolkstein
Jeff Sousa
David Andalman

Jason Brown
Jeff Sousa

Richard Flagg
Jeannie Donohoe
Tatiana Lamela-Rabell
George Kimmel IV
Jesse Millward

Chapin Hall
James Leonzio
Andrew Sadtler
Tim Roth
Tom Mone
Alexander Perlman
Caleb Rugg
Stephen Long
Bernice Mandy
Tim Korn

Chris Ables
Patricia Manwaring
Kat Cheng
Jeff Riedy
Tatiana Lamela-Rabell
Brit Lauren
JoAnn Heilman
Claire Kim
Manuela Rosario
Marc Rein
Zach Carter

Barbara Kowitz
Patrick Casey
Tatiana Lamela-Rabell
Stevan Lee Mraovitch
Ian Bloom's Chrimson Workflow
Alexis Van Hurkman

Very Special Thanks

The City of Allentown, Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania Film Commission
The Nieves Family
Kathy McAuly and the Lehigh Valley Film Commission
Milton Tabbot
Diana Morse
Michael Donovan, City Councilman of Allentown
Michael D’Amore, City Council President of Allentown
Jeff Pooley
Karen Fitzpatrick
Judith Parker
Peter Gourniak
Tom Kalin
Katherine Dieckmann
Eric Mendelsohn
Kim Yutani
Maureen Ryan
Susanna Styron
Christina Lazaridi
Dan Kleinman
Nick Proferes
Bette Gordon
Todd Thaler
Tom Gilroy
Zoe Van Brunt

 Barbara Wolkstein
Mary & Mitchell Liebowitz
Eli & Lorraine Liebowitz
The Korn Family
Jeff Riedy
Jacob Jaffke
Christian Magalhaes
Corey Boardman
Robin Wilby
Jen Heck
Touchstone Theater
Michael Fishman
Shangri-La Productions
Brian Fitzhugh
Lydia Cavallo
Peter Vaughan
Maggie Greenwald
Sloane Klevin
June Stein
Ira Deutchman
Jamal Joseph
John Walsh
Mary Harron
Lynn Holst

Military Consultants
1st Lt. Edward Van Buren
David Broyles
Matt Shoemaker (Marine)
Mike Weber (Allentown Marine)
VA Maryland Healthcare System

Shot on the RED ONE CAMERA provided by Ian Bloom
Sachtler Artemis Rig provided by Off Hollywood
Camera Support & Lenses from Du-All Camera
Grip-Electric from East Coast Lighting
Walkies provided by Gotham Sound
Transportation from CC Rental

Product Placement provided by Yuengling Breweries
No one under 21 consumed alcohol during the making of this film
Shot on location in Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA

Fiscal Sponsorship by Independent Film Project

Very special thanks to our donors
Ian Bloom
Barbara & Andrew Wolkstein
Melvin & Sylvia Wolkstein
Mindy Wolkstein

Winner of the 2008 RHI Entertainment Producers Development Award

Funded in part by The Caucus for Producers, Writers & Directors Foundation

Produced in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the MFA Degree
of the Film Division, School of the Arts, Columbia University

Very special thanks to
my father who has dedicated
his life to the military, his family,
& the Department of Veterans Affairs

Copyright 2009 Lauren Wolkstein