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Official movie poster
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Directed by | J.T. Tepnapa |
Produced by | Carlos Pedraza Jody Wheeler (co-producer) |
Written by | Carlos Pedraza |
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Charlie David Richard Harmon Sean Paul Lockhart Timo Descamps |
Music by | Brad Anthony Laina |
Cinematography | David Berry |
Edited by | Whitney Dunn |
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Blue Seraph Productions, Border2Border Entertainment
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Distributed by | Wolfe Video (N. America) |
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Running time
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94 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $500,000 |
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Soundtrack album by Brad Anthony Laina | |
Released | February 28, 2012 |
Genre | Soundtrack |
Judas Kiss is a 2011 U.S. drama film directed by J.T. Tepnapa and written by Tepnapa and Carlos Pedraza. It stars Charlie David, Richard Harmon, Sean Paul Lockhart, and Timo Descamps. The film is the story of a disillusioned filmmaker’s visit to his peculiar alma mater, where he is trapped in a tug of war between his tortured past and a troubling future.
Judas Kiss is the feature film directorial debut of J.T. Tepnapa, who has won many international awards for his short films, including the multiple award-winning parody of 1950s teen health films.
Failed filmmaker Zachary Wells is convinced by his best friend and hotshot director Topher into replacing him as a judge in their film school's annual festival. Zach's one-night stand with a student backfires when that student walks into an interview the next morning calling himself Danny Reyes, the name Zach went by when he attended the school. And Danny's film, Judas Kiss, is a finalist in the competition Zach is judging. Zach's film, also Judas Kiss, won the festival years before. Zach scrambles for answers. A mysterious, chain-smoking campus tour guide, counsels him: "Change the kid's past, change your future." But how? Zach comes to believe he can mend his life by disqualifying Danny from competition, putting Danny and Zach on a path different from the one he has followed. Will Zach's plan work?
The film is produced by Blue Seraph Productions, a Los Angeles company headed by Tepnapa and Pedraza. Their previous work has been featured in the New York Times, BBC, Variety, Frontiers, Fab, the Today Show, MSNBC, and other international news outlets.
The film, which was shot in the summer of 2010 in Seattle, has already attracted attention for casting former Dante's Cove star Charlie David. Also cast is adult film star Brent Corrigan (credited as Sean Paul Lockhart), who appeared in 2008's Oscar-winning Milk and the comedy Another Gay Sequel.