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A breakout indie feature, costarring Milwaukee’s Deborah Staples and Kalamazoo’s Chase Yi, Coming Up For Air has won four best feature awards including the grand grand prize, at the Culver City Film Festival in Los Angeles. The award came the day after the picture won the Best Feature award at the CARE Awards in Parkersburg, West Virginia. The drama has also won the same honor at the I See You Awards in Detroit and India’s Picasso, Einstein, Buddha Festival..

Directed by Robert Cicchini, Coming Up For Air is being hailed as a picture that will launch a national conversation about the significant role caregivers play helping friends, family, and patients recover from mental illness.

In addition to three best actress awards for Deborah Staples at festivals in Detroit, Italy and Tokyo, the film has won two best director awards for CIcchini and two best editing awards for Gene Gamache. With a total of 14 awards and 21 festival selections, Coming Up For Air has also been a box office hit at independent theaters around the country.

Common Sense Media has recommended this “amusing, believable, endearing” film to audiences everywhere. “Deborah Staples stands out as Anna.”

The film streams at

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Filmed on location in Michigan and Wisconsin, Coming Up for Air tells the story of ceramic artist Anna Russell and her son Stan, a straight A college student and high diving champion, seeking an spot on the men’s 10m Olympic diving team. The pressure and stress to succeed in his high-stakes athletic competitions, while maintaining his A average and a social life, begin to take their toll. Stan begins to unravel and withdraws into himself with potentially tragic consequences. Coming Up for Air is a breathtaking family drama that highlights the importance of mental health care. It takes audiences on an all-too-common journey, highlighting the pressures that are put upon teenagers to succeed and on parents to cope.

Best picture winner at the Detroit I See You Awards, the film was also honored for best director, best cast, best lead actess, best lead actor, best editor (Gene Gamache), and best cinematographer (Bruce Schermer and David Darling).

Director Cicchini, a veteran film (Godfather III), television (Six Feet Under) and stage actor, who previously directed and starred in Roger Rapoport’s award-winning feature Waterwalk, says:

“This very topical new film will inspire empathy and awareness of the complexities of personal responsibility. It addresses how crises that may lead to tragedy can be de-escalated and creates an appreciation of the impact mental health has on families. It will also support community discussions of the real conditions and biases toward mental health treatment.”

The feature was shot on location in Michigan and Wisconsin with a cast featuring acclaimed stage actors from many award-winning midwestern theaters. They include Kate Thomsen, who starred in Rapoport’s previous film Pilot Error, along with Neil Brookshire, April Paul, David Bendena, Carrie Hitchcock, Mark Corkins, Kirk Wahamaki and Judy Johnson.

“The timely message at the core of our film is connecting with audiences at cinemas, performing arts centers, colleges, schools, professional conferences and community mental health organizations” says Rapoport who cowrote the original script with Deborah Staples.

“If you or someone you know can benefit from mental health treatment or is having a mental health emergency, take action, lend a hand, make the call to get help, stay on the line, and above all don’t hang up. Your quick action could save a life.”Coming Up For Air, an official selection at 31 film festival worldwide continues to win awards at home and abroad. In addition to seven selections in Italy, the film has been honored in France, the United Kingdom, Iran, Turkey, Argentina, Japan, Russia and at festivals in New York, Pennsylvania, Florida, South Carolina, West Virginia, Michigan, Indiana, Iowa, Montana and California

Here they are.:

Grand Prize, best feature 2019 Culver City Film Festival Los Angeles

Best Director Robert Cicchini Golden State Film Festival 2020, Hollywood

Best Feature 2019 CARE Awards West Virginia

Best Feature 2019 Picasso Einstein Buddha Festival, Rishikesh, India

Best Fiction Film 2020, Best Director and Best Cinematography Platonic Film Competition, Ludhiana, India

Seven awards including best feature, best director (Robert Cicchini), best actor (Chase Yi), best actress (Deborah Staples), best editor (Gene Gamache), best cinematographer (David Darling and Bruce Schermer)and best cast at the 2019 I See You Awards in Detroit.

Best Actress Platinum Award for Deborah Staples at the fall 2019 Best Actor Festival St. Vincent, Italy.

Best Actress Deborah Staples and Best Editor, Gene Gamache winter 2019 Top Indie Awards, Tokyo.

Semi Finalist American Film Institute Jelly Fest 2021

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