A laugh-a-minute, surrealistic neorealist dark comedy filmed in Seattle starring real-life autistic rapper, Fantasy A, as himself. The story follows Fantasy A after he's kicked out of his group home for disabled adults. Along the way, he faces off against seedy club owners, hiphop vampires, scummy dojo losers, and a slew of other wack Seattleites who hope to stop Fantasy A in his tracks and crush his dreams of fame, fortune, and a safe place to catch some Zs.
The vitals:
Friday, 9/27
7:00 ~ Doors
7:30 ~ CARDBOARD ROBOT by Farris Paul Mafrige-Elsaifi
Following: FANTASY A GETS A MATTRESS with cast and crew!
Fantasy A Gets a Mattress is a laugh-a-minute, surrealistic neorealist dark comedy filmed in Seattle starring real-life autistic rapper, Fantasy A, as himself. The story follows Fantasy A after he's kicked out of his group home for disabled adults. Along the way, he faces off against seedy club owners, hiphop vampires, scummy dojo losers, and a slew of other wack Seattleites who hope to stop Fantasy A in his tracks and crush his dreams of fame, fortune, and a safe place to catch some Zs.
The film is about hip hop, radical urban change, disability, the housing crisis, artistic ambition, and what it takes to break through. Our film took four years to make; we filmed through COVID. We consider it a time capsule of late 2010s Seattle, as 80% of our shooting locations no longer exist. The film is shot beautifully—entirely on location—but focuses on parts of the city neglected by most Seattle productions; no water, no Space Needle, and no trees are to be seen in our film.
Despite our low-budget self-funded production ($3,800!) not having any institutional or financial support, we have achieved regional cult status and also have been very well-received at festivals and independent cinemas. Festival juries have awarded us Best Narrative Feature at Local Sightings Film Festival, Best Narrative Feature at the Seattle Black Film Festival, Best PNW Narrative Feature at Tacoma Film Festival, Best Comedic Feature at the Silent City Film Festival, and Most Promising Filmmaker from the Spokane International Film Festival.
Our film stars Fantasy A who plays himself. The film is loosely based on his memoir, Life in the Eyes of an Autistic Person. Fantasy A (aka Alexander Leroy Hubbard) was nonverbal until he was 12 and is now the biggest celebrity active in Seattle's public life and star of his own breakthrough independent film. All four of our core team went to the same high school and have worked on projects together ever since. We continue to work together and already are hard at work on our second feature, Crystal Ball.
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