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Leads follows Mags, an acting professor in a small Texas college town who’s barely holding her life together—single mom, debt piling up, aging out of her own artistic dreams. When her younger brother Merritt suddenly shows up and inserts himself into her acting class, her already fragile world is upended. He’s charming, magnetic, and a complete disaster, carrying the same unresolved family trauma she’s been burying for years. Their childhood wounds spill into the classroom as the students get caught in the emotional tug-of-war between them.
IndieFest alum Bryan Poyser (Dear Pillow 2005) has created a film that wears its love for acting, artistic perseverance, and messy sibling dynamics openly, landing somewhere between comedy, discomfort, and quiet catharsis. - Lucy Hanna, SF indieFest
Filmmaker expected for post-screening Q&A.
- Runtime102 minutes
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorBryan Poyser
Leads follows Mags, an acting professor in a small Texas college town who’s barely holding her life together—single mom, debt piling up, aging out of her own artistic dreams. When her younger brother Merritt suddenly shows up and inserts himself into her acting class, her already fragile world is upended. He’s charming, magnetic, and a complete disaster, carrying the same unresolved family trauma she’s been burying for years. Their childhood wounds spill into the classroom as the students get caught in the emotional tug-of-war between them.
IndieFest alum Bryan Poyser (Dear Pillow 2005) has created a film that wears its love for acting, artistic perseverance, and messy sibling dynamics openly, landing somewhere between comedy, discomfort, and quiet catharsis. - Lucy Hanna, SF indieFest
Filmmaker expected for post-screening Q&A.
- Runtime102 minutes
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorBryan Poyser