Luderdale
Trispect Film’s first feature film completed principal lensing in and around Los Angeles and Florida in June 2023. The drama/thriller will be released in summer 2024.
Storyline: Luderdale
A young stranger mysteriously appears at a shuttered, beachfront hotel in Ft. Lauderdale, 1980, seemingly by chance but perhaps with ulterior motives. Inhabiting the closed hotel are two on-the-run cousins who are hiding out from gangland enemies who may or may not have discovered their location. They live in paradise but rarely experience it, not daring to venture outside the confines of their safe space. But boredom, growing stress from being shut away, and a need for new friendship causes one of the shut-ins to allow the new arrival inside their hidden world. What starts as a deep mistrust between the now trio soon evolves into an unlikely friendship as together they face threats from local drug dealers and mobsters from New York who are looking for them. But secrets between them threaten to shatter their fragile bond. Also, living at the other end of the hotel is a damaged but beautiful young woman who holds secrets of her own. Who are these people, really, and will their bond survive whoever the next person is to come through the door.
Luderdale explores themes of trust, loyalty and loss and what it means to be family.
Director/writer: Thom Mills
Producer: Melissa Vitello
Director of Photography: Gavin V. Murray
Cast:
Austin Valli
John Gargan
Ayden Skyke
Joe Chambrello
Christian Shupe
Rachel Lookshin