PREVIEW: Cicada (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Matt Fifer (film debut), Sheldon D. Brown (film debut), Sandra Bauleo (film debut), Jazmin Grace Grimaldi (film debut), Cobie Smulders (Safe Haven), Scott Adsit (Kicking and Screaming), Michael Potts (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom), David Burtka (A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas), Jo Firestone (Don’t Think Twice), Jason Greene (Wine Country)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Matt Fifer (film debut), director, writer, producer, editor; Kieran Mulcare (film debut), director; Ramfis Myrthil (The Broken Ones) and Jeremy Truong (film debut), producers; Gil Talmi (Remittance), composer; Eric Schleicher (film debut), cinematographer; Kyle Sims (film debut), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In New York, thirty-something Ben (Fifer) is stuck between meaningless hook-ups and directionless sessions with his free-spirited therapist Sophie (Smulders). However, when he meets Sam (Brown), a handsome stranger with whom he forms an immediate connection, the two of them begin to reveal more of themselves to each other in a test of their blossoming romance…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Matt Fifer directs, writes, produces and stars in this sweet and tender love story that shows the raw human passion of two people with desperate feelings for each other.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 21ST JANUARY 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE, AND AVAILABLE TO RENT/BUY ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS, INCLUDING AMAZON PRIME VIDEO

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