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GRAND JURY SELECTION
Best Narrative Feature Award
BBIFF 2003
In the comedy/drama TEMPTATION, an idealistic husband and wife filmmaking team, Nora and Phil (played by Annette O'Toole
and Lyn Vaus), finally realize that their quixotic 20 year crusade to produce politically-correct porn for couples is never
going to find an audience.
To make matters worse, their seemingly perfect marriage springs a leak, along with their comically outdated New Age values_with
the discovery of decades-old footage showing TV's current #1 sitcom star in an extremely compromising situation. As
the media and porn distributors descend upon them with increasingly higher offers, Nora and Phil are forced to confront the
changes in their countercultural values, career ambitions and each other.
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Lyn Vaus, Co-Writer, Actor with Annette O'Toole
KIM CAVINESS
Co-writer/Director
LYN VAUS
Co-Writer/Actor
FILMMAKERS STATEMENT:
First and foremost Kim and I believe independent film outhgt to rise above the ambitions of financial
calculation and feel unafraid to relate stories expressig a sometimes ambiguous and ambivalent point of view.
Too often, independent film has been condescendingly viewed as a kind of farm league for the cultivation
of potential major and mini-major studio talent.
Independent film will never be truly independent until it can resist its complicit urge to dilute
itself. In order for a counterculture to thrive, filmmakers must exercise a compelling stand-alone aesthetic that does
not seek it's "reward" in a meretricious Hollywood caste system.
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