11 Time Short Film Award WInner Sneaky Snake Premieres New Short

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Sneaky Business:  An Offshore Account of Human Trafficking---Broadway Style will be premiering April 5th at 8pm at The Stonewall Inn Showroom, hosted by filmmakers George Sanders and Shawn Curran, who have won 11 awards for their work with Sneaky Snake, as well as an "Integral Realization Award" from Granada, Spain, a "Special Mention" from The San Francisco Short Film Festival and two second-place awards: one for "Best Picture "and one for "Best Director," from The International Filmmakers Festival in Margate, England.

In this 24-minute musical-comedy short film, Sneaky Snake (a green sock-puppet snake), stars as an altruistic people-smuggler who assists twelve singers from NYC in sneaking into Canada for free health care, Gay marriage, medical marijuana and a sensible government.  If you haven't seen Sneaky before, he's always up to something a little subversive. 

Sneaky's last film, Sneaky Snake: Lost in the Holy Land, won ten awards at various domestic and international film festivals, addressing the hot topics of genital mutilation, religious zealotry and war, all with hilarious results.  This film addresses the issues that have been concerning liberal US citizens for the past few years now, namely:the war, health care and Gay marriage.  But that's not to say that this is a serious film; it's a madcap romp, a slapstick fantasy, a vaudevillian-comedy, cult-film, with singing.  With more than a nod to The Marx Brothers' Monkey Business, writer/directors George Sanders and Shawn Curran have come up with a laugh-out-loud look at the disenchanted in the 21st century who must resort to human trafficking in order to secure their human rights.  Filmed guerilla-style with no budget or crew, Sanders and Curran assembled many of their talented co-workers from New York City's piano-bar community to act and sing in the comedy.  Says Sanders, "Everyone is unique and so much fun to work with in the piano-bars.  We couldn't wait to do a film together."  Joining the creative team again is composer/musician Bobby Peaco, who wrote and arranged all the music, and with whom Sanders and Curran have performed live for over ten years.