Produced 2024-2025 and premiered at the 2025 Mad Royal Film Festival on April 6th, 2025, at the Wexner Center for the Arts.

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Created by the Mad Royal Film Society

Director - Nicholas Marrone

Writers - Nicholas Marrone, Clay Kessler, Dominic Yacono, Mel Ramp, and Meredith Lewis

Producer - Jack Knellinger

Director of Photography - Clay Kessler

Art Director - Corinne Niaura

Assistant Directors - Mel Ramp and Dominic Yacono

Starring Andrew Barchet and Ryan Seyfert

Cast:

Andrew Barchet as The Protagonist

Ryan Seyfert as The Antagonist

Benjamin Medrano as Curious Masked Figure

Extras: Ahmed Ali, Zach Ball, Wyatt Downey, Fox Grosvenor, Landon Keck, Jack Knellinger, Masha Kochanenkova, Javier Limon, Mahir Mazumder, Benjamin Medrano, Millard Morgan, Corinne Niaura, Matthew Powell, Mel Ramp, Grace Rana, Klaire Weinroth, Dominic Yacono

Crew:

Assistant Director: Mel Ramp, Dominic Yacono

Assistant Camera: Amelia Bowen, Trey Worthen, Masha Kochanenkova, Millard Morgan, Hannah Swingle

Lighting: Ahmed Ali, Wyatt Downey, Jack Knellinger, Ryan Seyfert

Art Department: Corinne Niaura, Dominic Yacono, Klaire Weinroth

Production Assistants: Amelia Bowen, Molly Greene, Millard Morgan, Matthew Powell

Editor: Masha Kochanenkova

Color: Mel Ramp

Sound Design: Masha Kochanenkova, Nicholas Marrone

Special Thanks to Katie Smith and the Department of Theater, Film, and Media Arts, Studio 35 Cinema and Drafthouse, Michael Kaplan DCHS Theater Department

Music:

Grass by Aphex Twin

A Warning Before Reading by Pentagram Home Video

Created by the Mad Royal Film Society

Copyright 2025