HERO

By Dustin WHITEHEAD

IRIS INDIE INTERNATIONAL - as SALES All rights, World / DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, World / PROD

Social issues - Completed 2023

A misfit artist finds out his pre-med ex-girlfriend is pregnant. As she debates whether or not to keep their baby, he has to figure out how to grow up fast in order to prove himself a worthy father.

Festivals
& Awards

Rome FF 2023
Winner Best Screenplay
Riverrun Film Festival 2023
Official Selection
Sunscreen Film Festival 2023
Official Selection
Manhatten Film Festival 2023
Official Selection
Afro South Film Festival 2023
Official Selection
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Social issues
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH-UNITED STATES
    • Budget
    • 1 - 3 M$
    • Duration
    • 85 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Dustin WHITEHEAD
    • Producer(s)
    • Joshua RUSSELL (IRIS INDIE INTERNATIONAL)
    • Synopsis
    • Set in a world where women’s health rights are under attack and where men are boys well into their 30s. Trey, a black misfit artist and roleplay gamer, finds out his pre-med ex-girlfriend is pregnant, and that she is inclined to have an abortion, he is forced to grow up fast in order to prove that he can be a worthy father.

      The only problem is, Trey has just met a one-in-a-million girl: a roleplay dork, like himself, who runs a children’s daycare. Inspired by his single-dad father, Trey has no choice but to fight for a future that is coming for him all too soon.