Actress and producer Marta Pozzan will make her directorial debut with the dark comedy short “Down to Die.”
The film follows two friends, Maria (Pozzan) and Gabriel (Andrew Matarazzo), whose seemingly ordinary afternoon at an exclusive members-only club in East Los Angeles East spirals into a candid conversation about aging, ambition, identity and mortality.
Pozzan directs from her own script.
Alongside Pozzan (“Fior Di Latte,” “From Scratch”) and Matarazzo (“Teen Wolf”), the cast also includes Joe Apollonio (“Magic Farm”) as Reece, the club’s ever-present membership curator whose interruptions are never quite accidental, and Lindsey Normington (“Anora”) as Noah, the effortlessly charming waitress who briefly cuts through the emotional tension with a grounded warmth.
The project explores themes of performative success, celebrity obsession and emotional detachment through rapid-fire dialogue and uncomfortable comedic tension.
