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Scott Tinkham and Michael Woloson’s indie feature “Littermates” is headed to the big screen. The comic dystopian feature is set to open at over 30 Alamo Drafthouse locations on Nov. 6 via Alamo Exclusives. The film
will also have a special presentation screening at Fantastic Fest on Sept. 20, with a conversation with the filmmakers and cast to follow.
The film, which was produced in just 15 days, stars Joey Bader, Kaylee McGregor, Oliver Woolf and Jack Redmayne. Tinkham wrote the script, and the film was produced by Woolf, Woloson, Tinkham and McGregor. Woloson was also the cinematographer and editor, and the film has an original score by Noa Margalit. “Littermates” was produced by That’s The Fish, and Haley Nicole Johnson serves as executive producer.
Per the official synopsis: “Set against the backdrop of a mysterious war, ‘Littermates’ follows two disoriented survivors who take refuge at an isolated cottage in the English countryside. Liam and Mel arrive bloodied, speechless and unable to fully understand what has happened to them. They are taken in by Chester, an enigmatic caretaker who feeds them, teaches them to speak again and establishes a carefully controlled domestic order where good behavior earns “nifties,” tokens that can be exchanged for small comforts including karaoke, hot tub time, dance parties and favorite meals. As explosions, gunfire, sirens and karaoke fill the air, their makeshift family begins to fracture — exposing the fear, loyalty and unanswered questions holding it together.”
“We made ‘Littermates’ to explore the strange, primal and often trivial relationship between siblings. At its heart, the film is an unconventional coming-of-age story set against a dystopian backdrop,” directors Scott Tinkham and Michael Woloson said in a statement. “We always imagined the film as something to experience with a crowd, so introducing it at Fantastic Fest and then bringing it to audiences around the country through Alamo Exclusives feels like the perfect way to start this next chapter.”
“Littermates” is the second film from Alamo Exclusives, following the documentary “Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt.”
“’Littermates’ is exactly the kind of discovery Alamo Exclusives exists to champion. It’s funny, audacious, visually confident and nearly impossible to fit inside a conventional box,” Michael Kustermann, CEO of Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, said in a statement. “Through deadpan social absurdity and unnerving family dynamics, Scott and Michael have created a strange little world that is entirely their own. I can’t wait to introduce it to the Fantastic Fest fiends before bringing it to Alamo Drafthouse theaters nationwide.”
“Some of the most important voices in genre cinema emerge from its scrappiest edges, where limitation becomes a point of view,” Lisa Dreyer, director of Fantastic Fest and film innovation, also said in a statement. “’Littermates’ is funny, unnerving, formally exacting and completely confident in its own strange wavelength … exactly the kind of discovery Fantastic Fest exists to champion and Alamo Exclusives was built to carry beyond the festival circuit. Fans of Yorgos Lanthimos will love this one!”
