Meet Gino, the Shoe Shiner, but do not believe your eyes! The Shiners is an hommage to masters like D.W. Griffith, and to some degree, Chaplin.

In this town, there is order. Everyting seems to be fine on the surface.

But its inhabitants can have fun as well ... and they all have their secrets.

We'll experiment with the style, featuring the muted gestures, pantomime and larger-than-life expressions characteristic of the silent film era.

The "old times" music will feature authentic instruments ranging from the honky-tonk piano to band organ, calliope, barrel organ, cottage orchestrion, violin piano and piano orchestrion.

The film takes place during Prohibition. Ruby, a naive girl who grew up in the forest, comes to the Big City.

She becomes a flapper and joins a bootlegging operation.

Little Red Ridinghood meets "The Untouchables".

If "talkies" were never invented, the silent masters would be shooting with a wide aspect ratio, in color.

We have done some preproduction, test footage is available.