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Rick Gomez and other cast and crew will be here for a Q&A following the screening!

Movie “The Week” to Premiere at CayFilm Cayman International Film Festival

Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands – Dick Romans is a washed up TV host whose wife leaves him on the day before their ten year anniversary celebration. Alone with his thoughts, his dog, and a ton of booze, Dick decides to go through with the week-long party…by himself. The seven event-filled days become Dick’s reluctant vision quest, filled with odd characters, awkward romance, and some long-overdue self-examination.

This is the plot for “The Week”, a comedy that will premiere at the CayFilm Cayman International Film Festival on Friday, 19 June at Regal Cinemas, Camana Bay.

The movie is written, directed and produced by John Mann, Jon Gunn and Rick Gomez and stars include Rick Gomez, Joelle Carter, Richard Speight Jr, Amanda Detmer, Joshua Gomez, James Madio, Reno Wilson, M.C. Gainey and
Frank John Hughes.

“The Week is a passion project conceived and produced in a unique, organic way,” the directors explain. “Having found festival success with our award-winning short Pissing Vocal Gold, we wanted to delve into a feature length project but conflicting schedules didn’t afford the time for traditional story development and screenwriting…so we skipped that part and just started shooting. We created a character and a setting, and as a cast and crew of three, we found our story as we told it. Over the next eight months as we shot, edited, revised and refined, we added crew and cast to help take us where the story wanted to go.”

Bios for Main Characters
RICK GOMEZ
Rick has been acting in film and television for the last 22 years. His television credits begin with the Cable Ace award winning, Nickelodeon cult classic, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, where he played high school bully “Endless” Mike Hellstrom, followed by his ALMA award nominated performance in HITZ. His work on television went on to include HBO’s Emmy and Golden Globe award winning mini-series Band of Brothers where he portrayed Sgt. George Luz, the J.J. Abrams produced What about Brian, and the ABC show, Cupid. He can currently be seen in the Peabody Award winning, FX drama Justified, as AUSA David Vasquez. Some of his film credits include the Best Picture Academy Award nominee Ray, directed by Taylor Hackford, Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City, Transformers, Love Ranch and Stand Up Guys.

RENO WILSON
Reno currently plays Officer Carl McMillan on the hit CBS series Mike & Molly alongside Melissa McCarthy and Billy Gardell. He made his TV debut as Howard (Theo’s best friend) on the legendary Cosby Show. Since then he has appeared in numerous TV series including Heist, Blind Justice, and Showtime’s The Hoop Life. Reno lent his voice to the Transformers franchise, voicing the character Frenzy in 2007, Mud-flap in 2009, and Brains in 2011. He reprised his role of Brains in 2014 for Transformers: Age of Extinction. Reno will next be seen starring in the upcoming feature film Tooken, opposite Lee Tergesen and Margaret Cho.

JOELLE CARTER
Joelle Carter has been acting in film, television and theater for the past decade. She currently stars in FX’s award-winning Justified, portraying Ava Crowder. Her television credits include Grey’s Anatomy, Third Watch and Wonderland. Her film credits include Living, Jessabelle, Red Wing, It’s Not You, It’s Me, Lost Angeles and Be Friends. Recently, Carter has taken her turn behind the camera as a co-producer of the award-winning documentary Altered By Elvis. She also co-produced and starred in the award winning short A Girl and a Gun.

RICHARD SPEIGHT, JR.
Richard’s acting credits include starring roles in the HBO mini-series Band of Brothers, the CBS series The Agency, TNT’s Into the West, and recurring roles in Justified, Supernatural, Look for Showtime, and the CBS cult hit Jericho. He co-wrote and starred in Open Water 2 for Lions Gate Films, has starred in over 60 national commercials including campaigns for IBM, Zippo, and Pepsi, and has now begun directing commercials, recently shooting spots for both Mountain Dew and Pepsi.

AMANDA DETMER
Amanda’s film credits include Drop Dead Gorgeous, Final Destination, Boys and Girls, Saving Silverman, The Majestic and Big Fat Liar. Her television credits include The J.J. Abrams produced What About Brian, Private Practice and Necessary Roughness.

MC GAINEY
M.C. Gainey is a veteran character actor who has appeared in more than 200 television shows and movies over the last thirty years. A native of the deep south, Gainey’s imposing size, trademark handlebar mustache and “honest” face have allowed him to portray a wide variety of convicts, cowboys, and killers.
Gainey’s television credits include Happy Days, Dynasty, Justified, Enlightened,
Designing Women, Briscoe County, LOST and others. Gainey’s film career includes The Mighty Ducks, Country Bears, Tangled, Are We There
Yet?, Wild Hogs, The Dukes of Hazzard, Con Air, Happy Texas, Love Ranch, Sideways, and Quentin Tarentino’s Django Unchained.

JAMES MADIO
A Bronx, New York native, James’ credits include Hook, Hero, The Basketball Diaries. He starred in the Emmy Award-Winning HBO series Band of Brothers, portraying WWII hero Sgt. Frank Perconte. His notable television appearances include Perception, Castle, Bones, The Finder, The Exes, C.S.I: Miami, Cold Case, The Ringer and others. Madio’s recent works included portraying executed anarchist Nicola Sacco in the film No God, No Master and con artist Stosh in the film Jersey Boys directed by Clint Eastwood. James is currently developing the story of the boxer, Willie Pep.

FRANK JOHN HUGHES
A native of the South Bronx, Frank John Hughes has appeared in numerous films including Bad Boys opposite Will Smith, Steven Spielberg’s Catch Me if You Can opposite Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio, Righteous Kill opposite Robert De Niro and Al Pacino and Leave opposite Rick Gomez. Frank’s television credits include Wild Bill Guarnere in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, Walden Belfiore in The Sopranos and Director of Homeland Security Tim Woods on 24.

JOSHUA GOMEZ
Joshua is best known for his role as Morgan Grimes on the hit NBC show Chuck. His television credits also include Without a Trace, Invasion, Castle, and The Crazy Ones. Joshua is also an accomplished voice actor and composer. He contributed a number of original pieces for the soundtrack of The Week.
SOURCE: http://www.cayfilm.com/actor-rick-gomez-is-bringing-the-caribbean-premiere-of-the-week-to-cayfilm/