M-Alain Bertoni
Directing
Biography
M-Alain Bertoni (they/them) is a multidisciplinary filmmaker that crafts stories built on family dynamics, intersectionality, and self-identity, delivered inside a candy-coated shell made of the surreal, absurd, and horrific. Their films have screened in the NYC Filmmakers Co-Op New Year/New Works festival, United States Super 8 Film and Digital Video Festival, Oxford Film Festival, Northeast Film Festival Horror Fest, and Panic Fest. M-Alain also works as a producer who seeks to champion emerging and contemporary filmmakers that dare to confront societal issues from unique perspectives. Produced films include Algún Día (Dir. Anna Reynoso), Line Cutters (Dir. Claire Orrange), Comedy Man (Dir. Rev Rowe), and Play Dead! (Dir. Sawyer Serdula) M-Alain holds a B.A. in Film and Media Studies from Yale University and an M.F.A. in Creative Producing from UNC School of the Arts. They live with their fiancée and their two cats, Gatsby and Tiramisu.
Known For
Big Boy Brock Barnes is tasked with auditioning new children's show hosts. When none meet his standards, he takes the audition into his own hands.
Comedy Man
Charl: an adorable googly-eyed coconut turned pop culture sensation who is secretly a genocidal robot from another universe. In 5 days he’s going to murder the entire planet, and the only people who might be able to stop him are a multiverse-hopping law enforcement officer and a failed author obsessed with cartoons. The season finale of the long-running Charl storyline on the Patrick (H) Willems channel.
Night of the Coconut
KC, a movie theater employee on the brink of quitting, works the closing shift with her manager, Reggie. When the night takes a sinister turn due to their customers, KC and Reggie must figure out how they will make it out alive and decide whether they still want to work at the movie theater.
Closing Shift
All she knows comes from the screens. All she has known is the screens. A screen breaks and everything changes.
No Signal
When Cam returns her movies late to the video store, she finds out that she has to pay her late fees - with her life.
Rewind or Die
The film takes place at a school cabaret night, where Soren braves her environment to support her friend. But like always, Nick—her awkward and strange stalker— is near, and the impending doom sends Soren into a spiral. When she has to confront him, Soren has to make a choice: suffer, or stand up.