Directed by:
Sherwin ShilatiCinematography:
Brian BurgoyneCast:
Nick Thune, Halston Sage, Nicholas Rutherford, Ian Harding, Carly Chaikin, Gillian Alexy, Dillon Lane, Carlo Rota, Chrissie Fit, Robert C. Kirk (more)Plots(1)
If you're not on social media, do you even exist? Like a chicken-egg riddle for the modern era, such is the dilemma facing 30-something introvert Jed (Nick Thune), whose total absence from the digital landscape leaves him socially marooned. That is, until he discovers he can use his wizard-like Photoshop skills to present his life in any way imaginable. When Tasha (Halston Sage) sees an opportunity to exploit her vision of cultivating a celebrity out of a nobody, she helps pimp out Jed's life via multiple online platforms, and before long, he emerges from his cocoon as a high-profile social butterfly. But after Jed unexpectedly crosses paths with his high-school crush Franky (Kaily Smith Westbrook), dormant affections reawaken, and Jed must find a way to reconcile his unvarnished self with the slick facade his online persona reflects. With playful intimacy and deft insight, first-time director Sherwin Shilati plays with the ways social relevance and self-validation are measured in the digital age, and whether we can ever truly know each other when we so often disguise our authentic selves (San Francisco International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Nick Thune
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Roosevelt (2017)
Knocked Up (2007)
Don't Fade Away (2010)
Halston Sage
USA
Best movies:
The First Time (2012)
Poker Night (2014)
Before I Fall (2017)
Nicholas Rutherford
Best movies:
People You May Know (2017)
The Unicorn (2018)
Blood Fest (2018)
Ian Harding
West Germany
Best movies:
Le Mans '66 (2019)
Love and Other Drugs (2010)
Adventureland (2009)
Carly Chaikin
USA
Best movies:
The Last Song (2010)
Into the Dark (2018) (series)
People You May Know (2017)
Gillian Alexy
Australia
Best movies:
People You May Know (2017)
Avarice (2022)
Dillon Lane
USA
Best movies:
Texas Rising (2015) (series)
Charlie Says (2018)
The Guilty (2021)
Carlo Rota
UK
Best movies:
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993)
The Boondock Saints (1999)
A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2000) (series)
Chrissie Fit
USA
Best movies:
Crossing Over (2009)
All My Life (2020)
Parachute (2023)
Robert C. Kirk
Best movies:
The Night Of (2016) (series)
American Gangster (2007)
Inside Man (2006)
Kaily Smith Westbrook
Best movies:
Fracture (2007)
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
People You May Know (2017)
Christopher Darga
Best movies:
Le Mans '66 (2019)
Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011)
The Mask (1994)
Eli Jane
USA
Best movies:
The Social Network (2010)
Argo (2012)
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)
Hannah Marie Hines
Best movies:
People You May Know (2017)
Headgame (2018)
Adam Westbrook
Best movies:
People You May Know (2017)