Exclusive: Xan Cassavetes Counts Towards ‘1000 Days of Rage and Hope’

It’ll be back to back production years for the Xan Cassavetes. The eldest daughter of the indie maverick is putting the final touches on her vampire love triangle Kiss of the Damned, a film that should preem at a major film festival in 2012 and now she has lined up her next project entitled 1000 Days of Rage and Hope which will begin lensing in NYC next April. Cassavetes re-teams with Deerjen Film’s Jen Gatien and executive producer Jonathan Vinnik who both return in the same capacity as they did for KOFD.

Written by Cassavetes, the project sounds very much apropos with the current economical climate and outspoken dissidents on Wall Street and is described by the filmmaker as “a woman with a radical mentality navigates the complexities of relationships, poverty and dreams in New York City, as she analyzes her own complex and deep seated relationship with capitalism.”

Cassavetes who got her start in feature filmmaking with Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession and wrote a segment in New York, I Love You. This year she worked with perhaps the sexiest group of players in Kiss of the Damned which centers around two beautiful French vampire sisters who have separately come to stay at a summer estate — a ‘safe house’ in Connecticut. Milo Ventimiglia plays a screenwriter who begins a love affair with the “good” sister and insists on joining her among the undead.