Concept Photos
Some visual styles and thematic influences
The adoring masses
Iconography
Saddam?
A welcoming, yet imposing, greeting
Mounir in Koreatown
Anti-Saddam sentiment
American idols
1960s beauty, Anna Karina
The New Wave
Taxi Driver
Anti-heroism
The First Gulf War, 1990: Kuwait ablaze
Icon
Stranger Than Paradise
Airport arrival: a foreigner in a new place, Stranger Than Paradise
An all-American strip mall: where everything happens
Kevin Smith's Quick Stop from Clerks
Ubiquity
Peter Sellers in Hal Ashby's Being There
Fish-out-of-water as social outcast
The white bronco: OJ on the run
A hazy Los Angeles sunset
Circa 1990
about
In 1990, before the First Gulf War, a sheltered Saddam Hussein body-double loses his job and moves to Los Angeles in search of a new start.
genre
Dark Comedy
starring
Al No'mani, Scoot McNairy, Rudy Ramos,
Amanda Fuller, Tim Kang & Cameron Bender
written & directed by Patrick Epino
produced by Cindy Fang, Rain Breaw & Patrick Epino
cinematography by Christopher Chomyn
picture edited by Luke Pebler
sound edited by Kevin Thompson
score by Austin Wintory
