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SUNDANCE CHANNEL
Originally from Portland, filmmaker Laura Paglin eventually found a home and a story idea for her first feature film, NIGHTOWLS OF COVENTRY, in Cleveland, Ohio. Paglin explains, “There is a two-block strip called Coventry, which was a sort of mini Greenwich Village in Cleveland. The bulk of the film takes place in Marv’s deli, a 24-Hour spot that’s essentially a home to lost souls...
Cleveland Plain Dealer
LOCAL FILMMAKER TAKING OWN SCRIPT TO THE SCREEN
[CLEVELAND] In front of a cozy art theater, a pair of community activists in fashionably casual '70s dress handed out fliers, urging passers-by to boycott a 24-hour neighborhood deli. Across the street, filmmaker Laura Paglin of Cleveland Heights squinted into the camera as a red Thunderbird whizzed by. Several blocks away, a half-dozen bikers revved up their motorcycles...
By Jeff Sikorovsky, Staff Writer
The Sun Press
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS – “The NightOwls of Coventry” have swooped down on the former Hillside Dairy plant and will be there for the next two months. NightOwl Productions, a local independent film company, leased the dairy from the city last week for $2,000 a month. It is transforming the dairy into a soundstage and production studio to film “The NightOwls of Coventry”...
By Jeff Sikorovsky, Staff Writer
The Sun Press
Filmmaker Laura Paglin wants her first full-length feature, “The NightOwls of Coventry,” to preserve the sense of community that helped define Coventry Village in the early 1970s.
“It’s an example of a street that survived as best it could and successfully retained some character without turning into a strip mall,” she said. “There’s an interesting mix of people in this city”...
By Jeffrey Levick
Cleveland Jewish News
“You Must Order Within Ten Minutes,” notes a handwritten sign hanging on the wall of a Coventry Road delicatessen, circa 1973. The odor of cigarette smoke hangs in the air as Holocaust survivors kibitz inside a sticky brown vinyl booth that’s seen better days. Deli owner, Marv, eyes the new waitress, despite backlash from Grace, Marv’s (who’s married) longtime lover and hostess...