Allison Twardziak

Movies

Bad Things
Casting
A weekend getaway for a few girlfriends at a snowy hotel becomes a psychological tailspin and bloody nightmare.
Catch the Fair One
Casting
A Native American boxer embarks on the fight of her life when she goes in search of her missing sister.
Funny Face
Casting
In a Brooklyn threatened by disfigurement from greedy urban developers, two young people meet in a late-night bodega. Their unexpected bond takes on a romantic tone and brings solace to these two superheroes who are powerless in the face of oppression.
Swallow
Casting
Hunter, a newly pregnant housewife, finds herself increasingly compelled to consume dangerous objects. As her husband and his family tighten their control over her life, she must confront the dark secret behind her new obsession.
The Undiscovered Country
Casting
A young woman investigates her mother's secret past — by following her ghost.
Leaving Hope
Casting
Suffering a loss, a woman finds a mysterious book on a subway platform and with it fights to get control of her life.
Untitled Short Film About White People
Casting
In an effort to rid herself of guilt for gentrifying the neighborhood, a WASPy young woman aggressively attempts to befriend the Indian woman who works at the bodega on her block.
So You Like the Neighborhood
Casting
When a girl finds out she is being evicted from her Brooklyn apartment, she elicits the help of some gangsters. A dark comedy and true story starring Sarah Stiles.
Fits and Starts
Casting
A struggling writer can't seem to escape his wife's literary success. When a road trip to a publisher's salon takes an unexpected turn, he has to face his own creative shortcomings and find a way to regain control of his life and work.
Lemon
Casting
Seconds after the wedding, a bride is stunned to learn that her new husband fudged nearly everything about his past, but his revelations force her to come clean about a few shocking secrets of her own.
Light Up the Night
Casting
Light Up the Night is an analog science-fiction short film set in an Orwellian, futuristic 1980s. The story tells the tensions flaring between rebellious citizens and robotic law enforcement. We are introduced to two dissidents as they take aim at the city's looming, panoptic control tower, while local band The Protomen take the stage amidst the action, inciting unrest as they narrate the struggle.
Diverge
Casting
The survivor of a deadly virus is given the chance to reclaim his lost life by stopping the man responsible for the disease.
Appropriate Behavior
Casting
For Shirin, being part of a perfect Persian family isn't easy. Acceptance eludes her from all sides: her family doesn't know she's bisexual, and her ex-girlfriend, Maxine, can't understand why she doesn't tell them. Even the six-year-old boys in her moviemaking class are too ADD to focus on her for more than a second. Following a family announcement of her brother's betrothal to a parentally approved Iranian prize catch, Shirin embarks on a private rebellion involving a series of bisexual escapades, while trying to decipher what went wrong with Maxine.
Fort Tilden
Casting
Twenty-something Brooklynites Allie and Harper are directionless, privileged, and just a tiny bit damaged. All they want is to get to the beach, where a drug-fueled afternoon with cute boys awaits them. Alas, the journey becomes needlessly complicated, as the girls’ bike ride from Williamsburg to Fort Tilden Beach is littered with a barrage of unfriendly circumstances and the realization that their life skills are more limited than they should be.
The Five Stages of Grief
Casting
Daniel's father died yesterday. He seems to be totally fine. Luckily his friends can teach him to be miserable.
Treatment
Casting
Follows a troubled, gay millenial who moves back to his childhood home after a disastrous break-up, only to discover that his town is shrouded in a history of violent homophobic terror.