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Across the River to Motor City Synopsis
Our guide is Ben Ford, a dual-citizen from Windsor, Ontario. November 22, 1963 is his thirtieth birthday and he is about to make some changes. He is going to ask his stewardess girlfriend Katie to marry him, leave his job as an insurance investigator and strike out into a new frontier. Then, on that fateful day, Katie's flight is diverted to Dallas ? and she disappears. A motorcade rounds a corner in the afternoon light, a muzzle flash passes into history ? and nothing will ever be the same. Not for Ben. Not for Katie. Not for any of us.
Forty years later, Ben is a broken old man with a grown daughter he barely knows, Kathleen. He has a lifetime of secrets and regrets ? and the police show up on his doorstep. Katie's remains have just washed up on the Canadian side of the river and Ben is the prime suspect in her murder.
The season-long mystery, "what really happened to Katie?", provides counterpoint to the strained relationship between Ben and Kathleen in our contemporary story. She and the police want to know the same thing ? what does he know and what is he hiding? Ben isn't talking. What happened to Ben in the past, and what he did about it, reveals how he became the man he is today a man who decides to take the truth about Katie with him to his grave.
History's not done yet. Not with Ben, his family, or any of us. Whether it's November 1963 or today ? the river of history can always change course. Whether you learn to go with the current ? or get pulled under ? that's a lesson for a lifetime. Or one unforgettable TV show, Across the River to Motor City. |
| | |  |  | | | Across the River to Motor City is a new one-hour, six-part mystery series that spans a period of 40 tumultuous years and reveals how ordinary people are impacted by history's most extraordinary events. Our mystery is set in Windsor and Detroit where Canada and the United States are divided by the Detroit River and come together at the Ambassador Bridge. Each episode of Across the River to Motor City continually shifts point-of-view between past and present. Our series starts the day before President John F. Kennedy made his fateful trip to Dallas and picks up four decades later, the day our hero is accused of murder. Visit the official Across the River to Motor City website. [click here]
| | | | | | | | | | | | Sasha Roiz: Ben Ford, younger Born in Israel, raised in Montreal and now residing in Los Angeles. Sasha was brought up in a traditional Russian Jewish family. Growing up, he focused on athletics and music. He studied History in University and went on to play drums in Juno nominated seminal rock band Tricky Woo, with whom he released 4 albums and toured. Subsequently, Sasha spent 4 years in theatre school in Montreal and England, graduating from the prestigious Guildford Conservatory in 2002. Sasha started working in the theatre, and garnered a nomination for best supporting actor at the 2005 Masques awards (Quebec's theatre awards) for his work in Michel Tremblay's "Past Perfect ". He then made a quick transition to television and film, landing his first on camera role in Roland Emmerich's blockbuster "The Day After Tomorrow". Since then, Sasha has been working steadily in television: Playmakers, Show me Yours, Beautiful People, Jeff Lmt., and Film: 16 Blocks, Man of the Year. "Across the River to Motorcity" which is scheduled to air in this Fall on Citytv, marks Sasha's first series lead. Upcoming projects include supporting roles in CBC's Victor, and guest star on CBS's NCIS. Currently he is acting in an independent feature shooting in Los Angeles. Top of Page | | | 
| | | | | David Fox: Benjamin Ford, older David Fox has won accolades for his stage performances across the country -- a Toronto Dora Mavor Moore Award for Michael Healey's The Drawer Boy, a Maritime Merritt Award for Michael Cook's Jacob's Wake, and an Edmonton Sterling Award for Paul Quarrington's The Invention of Poetry.
Over the years, David has worked with such filmmakers as Guy Maddin (The Saddest Music in the World), Peter Mettler (The Top of His Head), Sir Richard Attenborough (Grey Owl), Patricia Rozema (When Night is Falling--Genie Nomination, Supporting Role) Chris Grismer (Clutch), Fabrizzio Filippo (The Human Kazoo), and Jeremy Podeswa (Fugitive Pieces). On television, Fox played the tile role in Shakespeare's King Lear; for five seasons he played teacher Clive Pettibone on Road to Avonlea. He has appeared in such series as Due South, The Eleventh Hour, Poltergeist, This is Wonderland and Puppets Who Kill; He worked with W.H. Macy in the TV film Reversible Errors, and Lou Gossett Jr, in For Love of Olivia. He is set to shoot H2O: Trojan Horse in November, directed by Charles Binamé.
Recently he has played Father Brown in the CBC/ Sienna Films pilot The Altar Boy Gang, Ivison in CBC's six part series, Northern Town, directed by Gary Burns; and the lead in Across the River to Motor City, created by Robert Wertheimer and Denis McGrath, directed by Michael de Carlo and produced for Chum Television by Robert Wertheimer, David Devine and Richard Mozer.
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| | | | | Anne Openshaw: Kathleen Ford McNeal Anne's been part of the booming film industry both in Vancouver and Toronto, traveling back and forth working on a number of projects. Her credits include: The Chris Isaak Show, We'll Meet Again, a Mary Higgins Clark Murder Mystery, Mutant X, Twice In A Lifetime, Rough Air (co-starring with Eric Roberts), Breaker High, Cold Squad, Narc, Falcon Beach, Supernatural and The Hooplife, a basketball series for ShowTime. Top of Page | | 
| | | | | Charlotte Sullivan: Katie Wilton Charlotte Sullivan is both a Canadian and British citizen. Her work includes both film and television credits including Goosebumps (You Scare Me), Are You Afraid of the Dark, Puppets Who Kill, The Murdoch Series, Harriet the Spy and This is Wonderland. Charlotte has been nominated for accolades such as the Young Star Award for Breakthrough Performance and as Best Actress with the Hollywood Reporter Awards. Top of Page | | 
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