Pants On Fire

a film by Colin Campbell

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

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Pants On Fire tells the story of Brad Spoofer, a pathological liar on a quest for glory. Brad quit the Feed Barn Etc., back in Nebraska and moved to LA to become a movie star. His Hollywood career, however, has been a dismal failure. He's the guy on the street corner dressed like a pirate and hawking mattresses. To save face, he's been telling his naïve friends back home that he's a movie star whose blockbusters are all about to be released in theaters. When his buddies decide to surprise him with a road trip to LA, he has to scramble to prop up the illusion. Luckily, he scores a house-sitting gig for a wealthy couple in Bel Air and is able to keep the lie going, until he foolishly claims to be friends with the guy who played Pedro in Napoleon Dynamite. His awed buddies clamor to meet their idol. In the meantime, Brad has fallen for Lucy, a cute painter who decorates trash cans for a living and who mistakenly assumes Brad is a rich actor living in the hills. As his lies multiply and his checks bounce, he has to dodge the thug who took his headshots and never got paid, woo the girl, keep his job and, somehow, deliver Pedro.

About the filmmaker:

Colin Campbell is a writer and director for theater and film. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his short film, Seraglio, which he wrote, directed and produced with his wife, Gail Lerner. Seraglio also won Deauville's Grand Prix and First Place Audience Award at Algarve International Film Festival and the New Haven Film Festival, and ran for two years on HBO. Other award-winning shorts he has directed are S.U.V. Luv and The Speeding Ticket. His production of his play, Golden Prospects, was nominated for five LA Weekly awards and was Critic's Pick in TimeOut NY, LA Times and LA Weekly. His screenplay, Harrow Lake, was chosen for Film Independent's 2005 Screenwriters Lab and was recently optioned by Paranormal Media. Colin regularly writes and directs for Instant Films, where he's won Best Writer, Best Director and numerous Best Film Awards. He has directed for the Mark Taper Forum's New Works Festival, ASK Theater, and the Actors Gang. He has been a Resident Artist at Harvard's Institute on Arts and Civic Dialogue, and a Guest Artist at Cal State Fresno. He has an MFA in theater directing from Columbia University. Pants On Fire is his feature directing debut.