FILM TYPE:

Feature

SYNOPSIS

When a construction worker unwittingly joins a local theater's production of "Romeo and Juliet", the drama onstage starts to mirror his own life.

DIRECTOR BIOS

Kelly O’Sullivan is an actor and writer originally from North Little Rock, Arkansas. "Saint Frances", which premiered at SXSW and won the Audience Award and Special Jury Prize for Breakthrough Voice in 2019, was her first screenplay. "Mouse", her second screenplay, was on the 2020 Blacklist.

Alex Thompson is a Chicago-based director and writer whose debut feature, Saint Frances, won the Audience Award and the Special Jury Prize for Breakthrough Voice at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival. He was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. His second film, the thriller "Rounding", premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.

World Premiere - Sundance Film Festival 2024

Official Selection - SXSW 2024

A beautifully woven tale on the constructive ways that life and art reflect, propel, and imitate each other, offering human beings curious enough to welcome artistic pursuits into their lives a path forward. 

- Tomris Laffly, Harpers Bazaar