2023 Day 3 – Block 1

Bowery Film Festival is proud to screen the following selections:

• Shutter The Doors

  Directed by Sheri Sussman
  

  A short film that is proof of concept for the feature film script “Sam’s Place”, starring: Ian Buchanan and Billy Wirth. Written & Directed by: Sheri Sussman. DP: Justin Janowitz. Producers: Antonio Cortese/Adam Rex. Edited by: J. Scott Harvey. Music by: Dave Eggar/Phil Faconti. Spiral Gate Productions. Distributed by: ShortsTV.

• Brenda and Billy (and the Pothos Plant)

  Directed by Dave Solomon
  

  After an incident involving a pothos plant, a frying pan and a flower pot leaves their mother for dead, estranged siblings (Santino Fontana and Sarah Stiles) come back together to figure out what to do with the body in this post-pandemic dark comedy.

• JK Bullworth

  Directed by Sam O'Sullivan
  

  When a Customer Service Rep receives a call from a strapped-for-cash addict, she must figure out a way to get his cash now, before loan sharks come and destroy his life.

• Queen of the Night

  Directed by Lauren E Pruitt
  

  A timid young woman meets a stranger with a dark secret.

• Full Time

  Directed by Jon Ryan Sugimoto
  

  This crowd pleasing fable follows a skateboarder played by Andrew Lutheran (The Goldbergs, Breaking Bad, Palo Alto) who gets offered a full-time job by a mysterious man played by Iddo Goldberg (Peaky Blinders, Snowpiercer) to stand in a square all day. The longer he stands there, the more money he makes, but his life is passing him by.

• Metamorphosis

  Directed by Jonathon Kimble
  

  Directed, shot, and performed solely by Jonathon Kimble, "Metamorphosis" was filmed during the COVID lockdown of Spring/Summer 2020 in Toledo, Ohio. A man is quarantined alone in his house while his wife is intubated in an ICU. As his whole world is reduced to being trapped inside of his own small house, a malevolent entity seems to be trying to force itself in.