The film is about artistic ambition, radical urban change, disability, the housing crisis, and what it takes to break through. Our film took four years to make; we filmed through COVID with a budget of $3,800. We consider it a time capsule of late 2010s Seattle, as 80% of our shooting locations no longer exist. The film is shot beautifully—entirely on location—but focuses on parts of the city neglected by most Seattle productions; no water, no Space Needle, and no trees are to be seen in our film.

Our film stars Fantasy A who plays himself. The film is loosely based on his memoir, Life in the Eyes of an Autistic Person. Fantasy A (aka Alexander Leroy Hubbard) was nonverbal until he was 12 and is now the biggest celebrity active in Seattle's public life. All four of our core team went to the same high school and have worked on projects together ever since.

Despite our low-budget ($3,800) self-funded production not having any institutional or financial support, we have achieved regional cult status and also have been very well-received at festivals and independent cinemas. Festival juries have awarded us Best Narrative Feature at Local Sightings Film Festival, Best Narrative Feature at the Seattle Black Film Festival, Best PNW Narrative Feature at Tacoma Film Festival, Best Comedic Feature at the Silent City Film Festival, and Most Promising Filmmaker from the Spokane International Film Festival.

In 2023, we had a 20-screening sold-out run at The Beacon Cinema. We had three sold-out screenings at Central Cinema, a sold-out screening at the SIFF Film Center, three sold-out screenings at the Grand Illusion, and a 400+ audience for a special screening at the SIFF Egyptian Cinema. Also, we held a private screening for Sir Mix-a-Lot, who called the movie “Funny A.F.”!

As of late, we had five sold-out screenings during our run at Spectacle in Williamsburg, Brooklyn! Our key creative influence, Wild Style director Charlie Ahearn, attended our NYC premiere and gave us his endorsement. He even arrived wearing a Fantasy A Gets a Mattress pin! At our last Brooklyn screening we had a standby line of 20+ people ecstatically waiting in the pouring rain. We crammed them in well past the theater’s capacity. One woman insisted she would sit on the floor under the screen. Another person watched the film from a stool in the very obliging projectionist’s booth. The crowd’s positive response was immense. A total triumph!

Our team had a fantastic sold-out screening in Dallas at the Oak Cliff Film Festival in June. Then, after eight months of film festival circuit, we returned to our hometown for a packed Seattle’s Grand Illusion Cinema and had a standby line equaling the cinema’s seating capacity! 65+ people stood in line in sweltering heat for over an hour just to get a chance to see our film. Stay tuned for more!