We went to North Macedonia and made a movie with friends. Excited to announce Replay, a very personal endeavor for Blu and I, which we could not be more excited to share. Coming soon.
Excited to say that LOCKJAW will be premiering at Slamdance in 2025 🤐
Honored to be part of the festival’s first year in Los Angeles, which means if you are my friend and you live in Los Angeles, you better be there 🤨
I’m so lucky that I got to make this movie with all of my friends, and am even luckier that they are all so talented! I couldn’t have asked for a more fun time making my first feature and I hope you can feel that when you watch it. Which you will in late February if you live in LA right….🤨
Swipe for stills and a BTS video of Blu trying on her dental prosthetic for the first time. This was made by prosthetic dentist Gary Archer.
Full list of credits (aka people I love and respect 🫡)
Starring:
Blu Hunt @bluhunt
Colin Burgess @colinburgers
Kevin Grossman @kevothegrossman
Sally Sum @salllysum
Nick Corirossi 🐛
Ally Davis @allydav1s
Lena Redford @lilredford
Featuring: @crestonnn@alisonsieke@thomasspaeter
Director: me
Producer: @abbiejonez
Executive Producers: @mamamirmade@mirmade_productions , @joshuahoffmanjason , Molly Gilula , Ryan Kampe , @nlwynn@vidxprt
Director of Photography: @nlwynn
Editors: me and @nlwynn
Additional Editing: @tuckthesuckman
Camera Operators: @cargar.mov & @nico_tepper
Gaffer: @nico_tepper
Key Grip: @true.vulture
Grip: @yungfortitude & @sabrabinder
Sound Mixer: @_raandersen_
Colorist: Ben Neufeld
Post Sound Mixer: @matthewmastmusic
Composer: @willaugustpark
Stylist: @sugarwuater
Costume Designer: Katherine Patrick
Casting Associate: @bubalala
Prosthetic Designer: Gary Archer
Production Designer: @c0.lette
VFX Makeup: @c0.lette
Associate Producers: @c0.lette & @tyler._____________ & @teenagequeen_
Set PA: @averywarsaw & @e.mp3
And huge thank you to others who were incredibly supportive of the movie and helped make it happen:
Marnie Weber, Jim Shaw, Eugene Kotlyarenko, Ryan Martin Brown, Jason Lester, American Film Festival US in Progress, Alec Moeller, Micah Gottlieb, Creston Brown, Riccardo Maddalosso & it won’t let me list more
Over the summer I went to Tokyo with @yosoyharmless@bluhunt and @whowhatwalsh to make this music video for Nacho’s song “by them, by you, by me” which is the title track off his great new album, out today. It was a special experience running around making something on VHS with friends, and also a very full circle one because the first music video I ever directed back in August of 2012 was for Nacho’s song “LakeLove” when he went by Twin Cabins. I thought it only fitting to share some photos I found digging through old Facebook albums of that shoot. Congrats @yosoyharmless on a gorgeous record.
Video by @jasonllester@bluhunt@whowhatwalsh@yosoyharmless
Produced by @whowhatwalsh
Edited by @jasonllester@bluhunt
Special thanks to @tacos_3hermanos_df@muscle.girls666@inthehouse_enjoybeer
Lockjaw — With director Sabrina Greco and cinematographer Neal Wynne in attendance.
Six weeks after getting into a drunk driving accident that leaves her jaw wired shut, Rayna tries to have a fun night out with her friends.
Playing at the Bishop Arts Theatre Center on June 27th. Tickets for Lockjaw and other screenings linked in bio.
Back in April we were in our house working on the edit of our movie and I proposed to Blu with the only thing I could find around at that moment, which was a rave kandi bracelet that happened to feature BH beads when viewed upside down (reversed from HB for Hollywood Bowl where she was given it by a young girl standing nearby during a Justice concert). We drove to the Pasadena Antique Mall and bought a $27 used ring missing its jewels to act as our proxy ring. Then we found a quiet street corner in Sierra Madre to get engaged on and roped some passersby out for a walk into taking our photos. We celebrated with dinner at Panda Inn.
Thanks to some new willing strangers who took photos of us in Èze we can now officially announce our engagement.
I told Blu on our second day of knowing each other that as crazy as it sounded I knew I would marry her, which I’d decided while reading her annotations in a Clarice Lispector book she’d loaned me the night we met. We moved in together after six months. We made a film together after eight. Every moment has been amazing. It’s now two years on from meeting and I can’t wait to make that prediction come true.
