NMA Ocumentary - Short Film (2019)

When a bartender introduces a film producer from New Zealand to a work colleague and his dysfunctional family, it sets off a deadly sequence of events. Behind gun violence and mass shootings, there's a dysfunction not confined to the shooter and his home environment, but his entire habitat and society. In search of a story, a film producer from New Zealand calls into a bar where Josh Hardaway a recovering addict works. Unwittingly Josh offers up his colleague Wyatt Avant as a potential subject. An interview with Wyatt unearths his dysfunctional family-borderline genius brother Aaron and abusive opioid-dependent, father Jed. Josh has more subjects for the producer-single mother Sharon Smith and ten-year-old daughter Alyssa who is deeply affected by the Parkland, Florida school shootings. The one bright light in Wyatt's life is aspiring journalist girlfriend, Sophia Lopez.