Hunter&Game starring Nico Tortotella of TV Land’s Younger to have East Coast Premiere in Brooklyn

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - May 6, 2015 - PRLog -- The 2015 Art of Brooklyn Film Festival is proud to screen the East Coast Premiere of Hunter&Game, a new indie documentary-style comedy about a band you’ve probably never heard of. The film stars Nico Tortorella of TV Land's hit show Younger and Cameron Scoggins of Playwrights Horizons. AoBFF calls it "a hilarious update of Spinal Tap, set in the Williamsburg music scene."

The band — called Hunter&Game — consists of two twenty-something best friends named Sasha (Cameron Scoggins) and Carson (Nico Tortorella.) Over the last year and a half, the Brooklyn-based duo have created a buzz around their indie-electronic project and are poised to have a breakthrough with the release of their debut LP.

A week before the release, Sasha and Carson welcome a Catalan documentary film crew into their Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment (which doubles as a practice space) and let the documentarians shadow their lives. Despite their excitement about the debut album and upcoming tour, things don’t go as Sasha and Carson had hoped. The film crew gingerly follows the action, realizing they have stumbled upon a more interesting story than the one they anticipated.

The film was shot almost entirely in Brooklyn in many well-known Brooklyn venues. Because of the fleeting nature of Brooklyn’s underground music scene two of the venues in the film — 285 Kent and Body Actualized Center — have already closed down.

Hunter&Game trailer: https://youtu.be/6ZnuEDhnMTM



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About AoBFF:

AoBFF is the only independent, international film festival in the world entirely focused on Brooklyn. AoBFF showcases exciting new films from around the world that are connected to the burgeoning Brooklyn indie film scene alongside those made by filmmakers from neighborhoods all over the borough. In 2015 AoBFF features a diverse slate of films starring Selenis Levya (Orange is the New Black), Joel Murray (Mad Men, Shameless), Richard E. Grant (Withnail & I, Girls), Leslie Lopez (Power), Nico Tortorella (Younger, Scream 4) and many others.

Actress, Brooklyn icon and AoBFF judge Annabella Sciorra says, “I love what the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival is doing. Their mission to focus on Brooklyn films and filmmakers speaks to me because I was born and raised here and it influenced who I am as an artist. Hollywood has always had a love affair with Brooklyn, which now has a festival worthy of its incredibly diverse indie film scene.”

AoBFF, founded and run by Brooklyn-born and based artists, was created in response to the corporate positioning of “Brooklyn” as a global brand, which features only a tiny sliver of the people who live and work in the borough and make it such a rich, creative place.

“Five years ago we decided to create an event with the basic premise of including everyone, rather than focusing on a few Manhattan adjacent neighborhoods and majority populations,” says Executive Director Joseph Shahadi, “And it worked better than we ever imagined.” AoBFF has had guests from very single zip code in Brooklyn and featured Brooklyn-centric films from all over the world including Turkey, Japan, Canada, Australia, and of course from all over Brooklyn itself.