Synopsis
25-year-old Max Solomon would like to be a writer, but has to admit he’s just not going to make it with his pen when his play, “The Onion Dance,” meets with a catastrophic reaction in its opening performance. His best buddies are Dave, who brownnoses his way to a monumentally boring mid-level sales job with no future, and Tommy, a slacker best suited for hanging out in a coffee shop and being funny. With career options like these in front of him, Max commits an impulse bank robbery—of an absolutely unique, but effective, sort. Holding a gun on his own head, he relieves interested teller Lucy of the cash in her register and rejoins his disbelieving but admiring friends. In the next three days, more unusual robberies happen and a compelling romance blooms between Max and Lucy while Dave and Tommy have their lives equally changed and Max has to question his newfound success. SKILLS LIKE THIS is a hilarious, original and freewheeling comedy with a real heart, winner of a well-deserved Audience Award at the South by Southwest Film Festival.



Donna Dewey - Producer
Donna Dewey is an Academy Award winning filmmaker who has been writing, producing and directing documentaries, commercials, series, industrials, and theatrical films for over twenty years. Dewey’s documentary, A Story of Healing, filmed in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, won the 1997 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. Her film, Chiefs, won the documentary competition at Robert DeNiro’s Tribeca Film festival in New York City, and received a national broadcast on the PBS series, Independent Lens. Dewey also co-produced Reading Your Rights, which garnered an Emmy nomination. Dewey’s numerous documentaries and series have been broadcast and distributed by PBS. Her films have been invited to and have won awards in film festivals around the world, including Russia, Italy, France, and Spain, as well as numerous festivals in the United States. In 1984, Dewey and her business partner Rock Obenchain formed Dewey-Obenchain Films. The company has a reputation for high quality commercial work backed by numerous awards, including Clio nominations, Tellys, and Alphies. Dewey has collaborated on four feature-length screenplays with her mentor, the late British director Jack Clayton (who is best known for directing Room at the Top, The Innocents, The Pumpkin Eater, The Great Gatsby, and Momento Mori). Dewey is a member of the Independent Feature Project, International Documentary Association, Colorado Film/Video Association, New York Women in Film, serves on the Board of Directors of the Denver Film Society, was named 2000 Colorado Businesswoman of the Year, is a 2004 Girl Scout Woman of Distinction, has served on the Colorado Governor’s Film Commission Advisory Board, and has been appointed by Denver’s Mayor John Hickenlooper to serve as Chair of the Denver Commission on Cultural Affairs.