A dad loses his kid to paperwork hell. Bureaucracy has never been this personal.
Sam, a new father with undiagnosed neurodivergence, faces a bureaucratic nightmare after a mix-up leads to his arrest, separating him from his family. With humor and heart, BitterSweet tackles toxic masculinity, parenthood, and injustice.
Acting
Martini's controlled unraveling keeps you hostage to empathy.
Writing
Finds humor in the spaces between panic and love.
Director
Steven Martini
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Martini wrote this after his own paternity leave paperwork nightmare; the DMV scene is verbatim from his notes.
Part of a micro-wave of 2024-25 films using comedy to process America's broken social services—think 'The Holdovers' for the paperwork generation.
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