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Elliot Tuttle's debut feature Blue Film tells the story of a camboy and a disgraced former teacher that challenges hubris, conjures horrors, and casually hijacks one's attention to keep up with the intense unfurling of a drama that moves like a thriller.

Starring Kieron Moore as Aaron Eagle and Reed Birney as Hank Grant, Blue Film is set over an increasingly suffocating night in a Los Angeles Airbnb. The movie has already received all sorts of responses from audiences and critics alike since it premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival — a polarized reaction that Tuttle was not only prepared for, but was actually curious about.