HOT ANGRY MOM West Coast Premiere at Dances with Films
A people-pleasing Mom discovers that ANGER is her superpower.
Winner: Best TV Pilot/Web Series - Toronto Independent Film Festival @ Cift
Winner: Best Actress in an International Series - Cusco Webfest (Peru)
Winner: Best Actress in a Short Form Series - LA Webfest
STAIRCASE PRODUCTIONZ & KAMPFIRE FILMS
present
HOT ANGRY MOM
West Coast Premiere
A people-pleasing Mom discovers that ANGER is her superpower.
Written by and Starring MEL HOUSE
With IVORY AQUINO, DEVIN HAQQ, ERIC RUFFIN, WELKER WHITE, PUN BANDHU
Directed by CLARISSA DE LOS REYES
DANCES WITH FILMS
JUNE 24 - 12:45 PM
Los Angeles, CA - May 30, 2023: STAIRCASE PRODUCTIONZ & KAMPFIRE FILMS are pleased to present HOT ANGRY MOM, a feminist punk rock comedy series about a people-pleasing New York City mom, who discovers that ANGER is her SUPERPOWER. From Award-winning director Clarissa de los Reyes (2020 TFI Adrienne Shelly Filmmaker Award/2021 TFI/AT&T Untold Stories Audience Choice Award) and creator Mel House (2019 Sundance New Voices Lab Finalist) comes a dark comedy series, so funny it hurts...HOT ANGRY MOM will West Coast Premiere as part of Dances with Films on June 24, 2023 at 12:45 pm (WEB BLK 2) at the TCL Chinese Theatres: 6925 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028. Tickets and more information are available at https://danceswithfilms.com/hot-angry-mom/.
Marie (Mel House) is a people-pleasing New York City mom who thought she’d have money, success, and respect by middle age. Instead, she’s working too many survival jobs and failing to meet her family’s expectations. But Marie’s the kind of woman you can count on to swallow her anger and put on a bright fucking smile. When she gets an opportunity to step into the role of a sexy powerful Goddess, Marie thinks she’s finally getting what she deserves. But her world is turned upside down when a video of her unleashing her anger becomes a viral sensation.
HOT ANGRY MOM is Fleabag meets I May Destroy You for moms. It brings the audience along for a wild ride as Marie learns to embrace her whole self, including the parts she’s been taught to fear—like anger—or to feel shame about—like sexual power. It offers space for healing through laughter and invites us to risk being seen in all of our complex authentic messiness.
HOT ANGRY MOM is made by Moms for Moms. As creator and star House says “There are 2 billion Moms in the world. 85.4 million in the U.S. This story is for them. I hope to spark conversations about anger and how we can channel it to address the systemic forces that contribute to mom rage. While it may be inspired by my actual family and anger journey, our series reflects some of the universal struggles for Moms, as we lose sight of our needs while prioritizing the needs of our loved ones, in a chaotic and triggering world. A world that continues to ask for more, while telling us that we're not enough.
- Because moms do so much unpaid unappreciated invisible labor…
- Because we sacrifice our potential and financial security to care for others…
- Because we are losing bodily autonomy and the right to choose if and when we become mothers…
- Because books are being banned, while guns are proliferating and our babies are being shot to death in schools…
For so many reasons…MOMS are ANGRY.”
The production stars Mel House (FBI: Most Wanted), Ivory Aquino (Batgirl), Devin Haqq (Law & Order), Eric Ruffin (The Transfiguration), Welker White (The Irishman), Pun Bandhu (Michael Clayton.)
HOT ANGRY MOM is produced by Vander Beatty, Katie Rosin (American Psycho), Clarissa de los Reyes (Johnny Loves Dolores). The Director of Photography is Niav Conty (Small Time), Composer is Miles Ito (After), Edited by Jessica Alexandra Green (Scratch This), Color Grading & VFX by Jamie Dickinson (Muhammad Ali: The Greatest), animation by Evan Delgado, and Publicity by Katie Rosin/Kampfire PR (Liza Anonymous).
HOT ANGRY MOM at Dances with Films on June 24, 2023 at 12:45 pm (WEB BLK 2) at the TCL Chinese Theatres: 6925 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028. More at https://danceswithfilms.com/hot-angry-mom/.
Running Time: 35 minutes
Website: www.HotAngryMom.com
@hotangrymom
BIOGRAPHIES
MEL HOUSE (Writer/Creator/Lead Talent) New York City based actress, comedian and the creator of the dark comedy webseries HOT ANGRY MOM (a 2019 finalist for Sundance’s New Voice’s Lab - @hotangrymom). Recently she played Judy in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime at the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina and toured internationally in Rome, Cagliari, Belgrade, Dublin, and NYC with The Baby Monitor--a new play about same-sex parenting. She has played iconic roles from Shakespeare to Ibsen, working Off-Broadway, regionally, and internationally, as well as originating roles for the web, film, and TV. She has shared the stage with talent like Richard Easton, Michael Cerveris, Ally Sheedy, and Kathryn Erbe, and appeared opposite Chad Coleman in Broken Bird at the Berlin International Film Festival and SXSW 2020, currently playing on Showtime. Mel tells stories, makes jokes and takes on projects that excite, provoke and promote conversations around gender, power and sexuality. She is a proud member of the Actors Center Company, NYWIFT, VASTA, SAG/AFTRA, AEA, and a Certified Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®. More at www.melhouse.com.
CLARISSA DE LOS REYES (Director) Born and raised in Manila, Philippines, Clarissa is an alumna of the Berlinale Talent Campus and has an MFA in Film Production from NYU where she was awarded a graduate fellowship in Cinematography. Her short films have screened at various film festivals including Palm Springs International, Busan, Fribourg and more. Her short film “Johnny Loves Dolores” is the recipient of several awards, including a Grand Jury Prize at the San Diego Asian Film Festival where it competed alongside feature films. It was also one of only six films curated by the American Cinematheque’s 8th Annual Focus on Female Directors. Her feature screenplay version for “Johnny Loves Dolores” was selected as part of the Tribeca Film Institute Network 2020, where she received the 2020 TFI/Adrienne Shelly Filmmaker Award. “Johnny Loves Dolores” went on to win the 2021 Tribeca/AT&T Untold Stories Audience Choice Award. Clarissa is also a professional cinematographer whose work has been showcased in some of the top festivals around the world (Sundance, Berlin, Clermont Ferrand). She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, four-year-old daughter, bird and fish.
KATIE ROSIN/KAMPFIRE FILMS (Producer) has been working in production and marketing for film, television and theater for over 20 years. After working on films such as American Psycho and Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Kampfire Marketing was instrumental in the launch of the Broadway musical Brooklyn and the National Tour of Mother Load. Kampfire has been integral in multidimensional campaigns for New York Innovative Theatre Award Recipients, GLAAD Award winners, back-to-back NYMF Best of Fest winners, and Drama Desk nominees. In 2014, Kampfire launched Stage17.tv, a digital entertainment destination for episodic fiction and reality programming for the world’s largest stage—the Internet and spent two years as Director of Communications at the Broadway Podcast Network. Kampfire produced the feature films, Closure and Tonya Pinkins Red Pill, the short films Speed Grieving, Liza Anonymous, Fraud, the Webseries Gemma & The Bear, Hot Angry Mom, Outdated, the talk show Chic Chat, and the Docu-reality Series We Are The Jones. Kampfire has various projects in development and post-production.
About Dances With FilmsIn 1998 DWF began as a film festival dedicated to finding tomorrow’s talent today and continues to carry on this mission. With many World and West Coast Premieres, DWF provides a coveted first stop on the festival circuit. With a vast number of submissions, the selection process is based solely on merit and discoverability. DWF continues its dedication to and is a devoted champion of fresh and creative voices. For the past 25 years, DWF has proudly provided access and opportunity to thousands of films and filmmakers from all over the world who diligently work year after year to see their dreams realized.
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