Kaveh and Raul are two b-movie co-writers who have suffered a bitter falling out. Kaveh's lost his girlfriend, and spends his days getting high in his apartment, while Raul is off studying at Columbia University. But when one of their films ("Islama-rama 2") is accepted by a film festival, the two ex-friends are forced to tentatively re-connect in order to pitch their script to the mysterious producer, Yukio Tai (James Hong). Along the way, they will have to brave brutish bodyguards, cutthroat colleagues, inept agents, romantic entanglements, prima donna actors, and the trials of their own bitter friendship.
Acting
James Hong stealing every scene as the inscrutable Yukio Tai.
Writing
Meta-commentary that bites the hand that funds it.
Director
Kevin Hamedani
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Kevin Hamedani cast himself and real-life collaborator Ramon Isao; their actual friendship survived this production. Barely.
The film festival circuit it satirizes has barely changed since 2012 — filmmakers still pitch to mysterious money-men in hotel lobbies.
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