A pathetic fishmonger must survive a sex pact with an ancient fish creature in order to save his mother’s soul.
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Dominic Burgess, Donnla Hughes, Penny O’Brien
USA
2024
English
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Credits & Director
Producer
Valerie Steinberg, Jordan Willcox, Neil Ferron
Screenwriter
Neil Ferron, Alexandra Dennis-Renner
Cinematography
Jack McDonald
Editor
Augustine So
Production Design
Xiyu Lin
Original Music
John Graney
Neil Ferron
Neil Ferron is an LA-based writer/director from Seattle. His first feature screenplay, Fishmonger (2024), a supernatural dark comedy about tentacle sex and vulnerability, won the Grand Prize of the Slamdance Screenplay Competition (2021). His AFI thesis, a short film version of Fishmonger, received a Cannes Lions Young Directors Award (2023) before its world premiere at Fantastic Fest and its European premiere at Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia. Neil’s work has been described as “wonderfully surreal” (Sub Pop), “shocking, horrific, and funny” (Rolling Stone), and a “Ph.D testing of what ‘works’ on the human consciousness” (Seattle Weekly). Neil is a recent graduate of the AFI Conservatory. He holds a Masters in Theatre & Performance from Trinity College Dublin thanks to a George J. Mitchell Scholarship.
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