WORLD PREMIERE
SYNOPSIS
With little time and even littler budget, a directing duo attempt to finish their indie movie - but at what cost? Two is a meta-fictitious film that was principally shot in two days, a dark comic satire of gender and power dynamics in the film industry created with an ensemble cast of some of the greatest up and coming comedic talent.
STARRING: Boni Mata, Kayla Dawn Marcus, Ross McCall, Max Baumgarten, Ben Seeger, Zinne Saleh, Issac Fenster, Brian Lee Hughes, Ashley Morgan, Anthony Di Mieri
RUNTIME: 1 hour 22 minutes
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
TWO is a feature film born from Mata and Marcus’s longtime friendship and collaboration. Together, the two have produced numerous short films, a TV pilot, and an original hit web series also known as “the first ever Instagram show.” Their prolific, relentless and often questionable production style has positioned Mata and Marcus as pioneers of the new wave of indie filmmaking.
DIRECTOR: Kayla Dawn Marcus, Boni Mata
SCREENPLAY: Kayla Dawn Marcus, Boni Mata
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Connor Smyers
EDITOR: Boni Mata
MUSIC: Nick Rosen
PRODUCERS: Kayla Dawn Marcus & Boni Mata, Ashley Morgan, Nick Vernet
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Aaron Hill, Connor Smyers, Anthony Di Mieri, Prince Raj
ABOUT THE DIRECTORS
Boni Mata is a Clio Award-winning Spanish-American writer & director working between Barcelona and Los Angeles. Boni’s commercial and music video career spans multiple genres; her clients include Solange Knowles, Virgil Abloh, Acne Studios, Sony, and Dropbox. With literary degrees from UC Berkeley and the University of Cambridge, Boni’s film work brings a critical edge to feminist themes. Her latest short is currently in post-production in Spain.
Kayla Dawn Marcus is an NYC based writer, director, and actor. She’s made three feature films, two original series, several short films, pilots, and three stage plays. Her work has been described as overindulgent, perverted, and littered with Freudian slips. Audience members often leave her films horny, salivating and intrigued, wondering if her themes are a celebration of the female gaze or a critique of male depravity. Kayla’s obsession with power dynamics, unrelenting desire and the forbidden fruit, are the connective tissue in her expansive body of work.