Shaughn Buchholz

A burned-out Hollywood actress convinces a startled stranger to pose as her boyfriend during a weekend with her highly unusual family.

Slamdance, the upstart rival of Sundance, celebrates the cutting edge cinema “indie” used to mean, and Daniel Martinico’s caustically funny and forlorn comic tragedy truly epitomizes its spirit. With its verité style, this madcap dive into the world of acting is nightmarish and captivating at once.

Two married, down-on-their-luck, actors decide to put on a site-specific play about their unsuccessful lives in Hollywood.

Cast adrift in Los Angeles, Sean, a lonely TV weatherman, drives past a middle-aged Latino migrant worker standing outside a hardware store looking for work. He decides to hire this kind-looking man, to be his friend. Sean is young, gay and white; Ernesto, portly, straight and married. Despite having nothing in common and the language barrier, they build a sort of friendship.

Cute, 20-something Nate isn’t hurting for dates. Even his best friend Jeff confesses his feelings in a moment of drunken vulnerability. Nate, though, is still hopelessly obsessed with his ex-boyfriend Joey. Poignant and funny, this brand-new Dekkoo-original series follows Nate as he tries to find closure and break himself out of romantic purgatory.