Part of SFFILM Festival
Dramarama
Description
A last party between lifelong theater geek friends before they scatter to college reveals just how much they don’t know about one another in first-time director Jonathan Wysocki’s warm, funny, and ultimately moving coming-of-age dramedy. Gene (Nick Pugliese) frets with coming clean about a long-withheld secret, but he is not the only one hiding something. Set in 1994 in Escondido, CA, the filmmaker’s hometown, among a mixed-gender group that is largely Christian, Dramarama engagingly depicts the jealousy and competition that exists among even the tightest friends but also the love that makes them closer than family. Pugliese and Danielle Kay as Ally are standouts as the most self-aware amongst a quintet of naïve teenagers for whom murder mystery role-playing games and sparkling cider are the height of adult sophistication.
Like the characters in his debut feature Dramarama, Jonathan Wysocki grew up in Escondido, CA, and devoted his young life to the theater before getting his MFA in film production at UCLA. He’s been a programmer for the Los Angeles Film Festival, a Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Labs Fellow, and an advisor for Sundance Co//ab. Among his award-winning shorts are The Way Station (2004), Adjust-A-Dream (2014), and A Doll’s Eyes (2016).
Filmmaker Profile
Film Details
LanguageEnglish
Year2020
PremiereWorld
Runtime91
CountryUSA
DirectorJonathan Wysocki
ProducerYue Wang, Jonathan Wysocki
WriterJonathan Wysocki
EditorChristine Kim
CinematographerTodd Bell
MusicChanda Dancy
CastAnna Grace Barlow, Danielle Kay, Megan Suri, Nick Pugliese
Print SourceAmbrosia Picturesjonathan@jonathanwysocki.com http://dramaramathemovie.com