A young man with dreams of becoming a filmmaker stops at nothing to fulfill his ambition, even murder, as he takes over a director's life, wife, and ultimately, the film itself.
How far would you go to make your dreams come true? For budding writer and filmmaker Noah Spaeth, being a Production Assistant in director Dominick Bomlock’s new avant-garde film isn’t enough. Neither is watching Dominick have an affair with the lead actress, the gorgeous but troubled Nevie Wyeth. For Noah’s dream is to get both the film and Nevie in the end, whatever the cost. And this obsession may soon become a reality once Dominick’s spurned wife Isadora reveals her femme fatale nature with a seductive plot to get rid of her husband for good. Based off of his acclaimed novel, Lee Matthew Goldberg’s Slow Down, a cross between the noir styling of Double Indemnity and the dark satire of Sex, Lies, and Videotape, is a thrilling ride that holds a mirror up to a media-saturated society that is constantly searching for the fastest way to get ahead, regardless of consequences.
Christine Vartoughian is an award-winning, Armenian-American writer and director whose work has shown at Lincoln Center, Museum of the Moving Image, and whose feature film about love and suicide, Living with the Dead: A Love Story, has been awarded the Audience Choice Award at The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, Best Feature Film at Aberdeen Film Festival, and is available on Apple TV and Amazon, in the U.S. and internationally. Her screenplay, The Great Perhaps, is an adaptation of the Joe Meno novel, which was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, and has been a part of film festivals and script competitions.
Christine founded (Screen)Play Press, a publishing company for yet-to-be-produced film scripts. Her feature script, Young Monsters, was published in 2022 and her short fiction has been published in The Bookends Review, Quibble Lit, 805 Lit + Art, Open: A Journal of Arts and Letters, and Audience Askew. Her debut collection of short stories is set to be published in 2025. She lives in New York City.
Writer- Lee Matthew Goldberg
Director of Photography- Daniel Feighery
