16 mins

Bryers Cucumber Tostinos

Absurdist short comedy about a man-boy whose mom left him at the corner market and he's still there, waiting to get picked up.

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16 mins

Bryers Cucumber Tostinos

Absurdist short comedy about a man-boy whose mom left him at the corner market and he's still there, waiting to get picked up.

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Role and name:

CAST

BCT - Patrick Tamisiea

Lazlo - Kevin Pollak

Mallory - Maggie Mae Fish

Sandy - Asia Lynn Pitts

Margaret - Arianna Jonae

Thomas - Andrew Heder

Jill - Nicole Blaine

Crazy Old Man - Ari Loeb

Gina - Julia Michelle

The Douche - Greg Santos

CREW

Dir/Prod - Christopher J Hall

Written by - Patrick Tamisiea, Nicholas Leeds

DP - Rachel Dusa

Co-Producer - Rob Blake

Prod Designer - Caitlin Sacks

Set Dresser - Tony Paulley

Sound Mixer - Michael Rich

Boom Operator - Cameron Selan

First AD - Stephen Predisik

Second AD - Angel Castellanos

Second AD - Matthew McGinley

HMU - Crista Llewellen

Scripty - Nick Robinson

Wardrobe - Angie Parish

Seadicam - Colin MacDonnell

First AC - Lauren Peele

First AC - Megan Johnson

Second AC - Minmin Tsai

Second AC - Ilija Gavran

Gaffer - Rene Yescas

Key Grip - Zach Kienitz

Swing Electric - Robert Campboy

Colorist - Roy Sun

Inspiration behind the film:

Patrick Tamisiea and I worked together for a couple years at a digital production company and I loved his bizarre sense of humor. I found out he was in a sketch comedy group and started going to their shows and fell in love with them and said we had to turn one of them into a short. Brought in my buddy Nick Leeds, who is an accomplished comedy writer from TV, and we banged out this script that just had everybody in tears of laughter. I produced it over a weekend in a real Hungarian bodega in Burbank and started submitting to festivals just as the world was shutting down for Covid. But the film still got into almost 50 festivals, won a bunch of small plastic trophies. But it was always about finding a way to work together to make a passion project that we really wanted to see.

Information
Maturity Rating:
PG
Community Tags:

Comedy, weird, absurd, sketch, buddy, romance

Filmmaker:
Christopher Hall / Penumbra Pictures
AWARDS AND FESTIVALS:

Austin Revolution Film Festival, Burbank Film Festival, Sherman Oaks Film Festival, Santa Fe Film Festival, Portland Comedy Film Festival, LA Festival of Cinema