Jay Duplass is heading to San Luis Obispo.
The veteran multi-hyphenate has major business at next month’s San Luis Obispo International Film Festival (aka SLO Film Fest), where he is set to receive a spotlight award and present a screening of his new film, The Baltimorons.
Fresh from a SXSW debut in Austin, Texas, The Baltimorons tells the story of how a newly sober man’s Christmas Eve dental emergency leads to an unexpected romance with his older dentist. It stars Michael Strassner Liz Larsen and Olivia Luccardi. Duplass directs from a script he co-wrote with Strassner. The Baltimorons marks Duplass’ first feature that he wrote and directed since 2012’s The Do-Deca-Penathlon. Since then, he’s kept busy on the TV front, directing episodes of Togetherness, Search Party and Somebody Somewhere and producing and executive producing a long list of films and TV shows.
A photo from the set The Baltimorons with Drew Langer, Jay Duplass, Jon Bregel and Alvan Obichie.
Credit Michael Strassner/SLO Film Festival
“We are honored to celebrate such an icon in the independent film community,” praised San Luis Obispo International Film Festival executive director Skye McLennan “Jay Duplass and his brother, Mark Duplass, have long been champions and trailblazers in the world of independent cinema.”
Duplass’ spin in the spotlight is scheduled for April 27, when he will receive the awards shine, screen The Baltimorons and sit for a career retrospective Q&A.
The festival runs April 24-29, and will feature a slate of more than 113 films including narrative features, shorts, documentaries and doc shorts. SLO Film Festival is scheduled to open with a showing of the Sundance Film Festival’s audience award winner DJ Ahmet and close with Daryl Hannah’s documentary on Neil Young’s solo tour, Coastal. Additional highlights include a program curated by the Coastal Awakening celebrating the late David Lynch and his passion for meditation, and Ecologistics, a series dedicated to environmental doc shorts.
Duplass cut his teeth in the entertainment business in the early 2000s writing, directing and producing independent and studio films in tandem with his brother Mark. Those efforts included The Puffy Chair, Baghead and Cyrus. Their other credits include Jeff, Who Lives at Home. Together they also created the series Togetherness under an overall deal at HBO.
In 2014, Jay and Mark created the critically acclaimed television series Togetherness, part of an overall television deal with HBO, which produced multiple shows and series. The brothers produced the Emmy-winning Netflix docuseries Wild Wild Country. On-screen, he’s acted in such high-profile projects as Industry, Transparent, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Chair, Outside In and Beatriz at Dinner.
Passes and more SLO Film Festival intel can be found here.
Courtesy of SLO Film Festival
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