Welcome to the Party
There is no way out.
ABOUT
The lines between reality and nightmare blur as nineteen-year-old Rachel meets her boyfriend’s mother at a hallucinatory party with all of his ex-girlfriends in attendance.
For nineteen-year-old Rachel, relationships should be about kissing, dates, and falling in love. But after accepting an invitation to meet her boyfriend’s family, Rachel is filled with anxiety. Once they arrive at the house, the party quickly reveals itself to be anything but a simple family gathering. Rachel endures a series of strange encounters with her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriends and mother, leading her to face the truth behind her relationship and choose whether to save it or save herself.
YEAR 2019
RUN TIME 15:00 Min
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CAST & CREW CREDITS
DIRECTED BY Logan Hamrick
SCREENPLAY BY Logan Hamrick
PRODUCERS Imani Edwards | Liz Printy
EDITOR Logan Hamrick
CINEMATOGRAPHER Retji Dakum
SOUND DESIGNER Saori | Logan Hamrick
MUSIC COMPOSER Numero Group
ART DESIGNER Xiran Luo
COLORIST Avery Griffin
PRINCIPAL CAST
Amanda Michaud | Matt Tavenner | Marissa Kruep
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
An ex-girlfriend once told me of a nightmare she had in which we arrived at a family party together and the first person to greet us at the door was a woman who revealed herself to be another girlfriend of mine. In an instant, she was filled with dread.
Through the lens of this slightly off-nightmare, I decided to tap into the deepest fears of new couples and all the paranoia that comes with meeting family for the first time. Except in the constructed world of the film, meeting family also means meeting every ex your partner has ever had. The film’s reflection of anxiety and gender politics from a woman’s eyes is vastly important to my ideals.
Though this film gets a little extreme by the end, the symbolic events are a way for viewers to tap into the main character’s point-of-view as she attempts to shake out of the nightmare she’s trapped in.
DIRECTOR BIO
Logan Hamrick is a filmmaker and festival programmer whose screenplays and programming adhere closely to his love of genre. He is currently part of the screening committee at the Maryland Film Festival and has programmed for Creative Alliance and Short+Sweet Hollywood Film Festival. He holds a bachelor’s degree in digital communication with a concentration in digital theory and culture from the University of Baltimore and is currently completing his MFA in filmmaking at the Maryland Institute College of Art. In addition to his work at MICA, he recently accepted a co-programming position at the Maryland Film Festival helping the programming director in his final year with Q&A’s and various screenings during the 2020 festival run.
Logan is currently writing and developing several short and feature-length projects.
FILM AND PRODUCTION STILLS
AWARDS
FULL FILM
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Logan Hamrick is a filmmaker and festival programmer whose screenplays and programming adhere closely to his love of genre. He is currently part of the screening committee at the Maryland Film Festival and has programmed for Creative Alliance and Short+Sweet Hollywood Film Festival. He holds a bachelor’s degree in digital communication with a concentration in digital theory and culture from the University of Baltimore and is currently completing his MFA in filmmaking at the Maryland Institute College of Art. In addition to his work at MICA, he recently accepted a co-programming position at the Maryland Film Festival helping the programming director in his final year with Q&A’s and various screenings during the 2020 festival run.
Logan is currently writing and developing several short and feature-length projects.
(Update provided in May 2020)