Directed by two-time Independent Spirit Award nominee Bryan Poyser, LEADS is about an acting professor (Heather Kafka, LOVERS OF HATE, THE LEFTOVERS, JOE) who has her comfortable life in her small college town upended when her charming and volatile baby brother (Justin Arnold, SCENES FROM THE SUBURBS, LOVE & AIR SEX) comes knocking at her door. Antsy to start a new chapter in his own life, he joins her acting class, setting off a battle of wills between them for the hearts and minds of her eager students that could bring them all to brink of success or debilitating ruin. Also starring Macon Blair (BLUE RUIN, OPPENHEIMER) and Sara Paxton (AQUAMARINE, THE INNKEEPERS).

2025 Tribeca Festival - World Premiere, US Narrative Competition

Recipient of a 2024 Austin Film Society Grant for post-production.

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