Zoe Miller is the idealistic, "straight-edge" 23 year-old "shoegazer" guitarist with a troubled past in the Boston/New York City indie rock band Ghosts of the Halcyon Dream. To further her musical career and meet her indie rock idol, Zoe convinces her bassist boyfriend Jake Reed and slacker drummer Bill "Trippy" Hansen to play at an Austin "DIY" (Do-It-Yourself) outdoor music festival.

With no money and even fewer connections, they consent to drive a jet-setting Texas billionaire's white Cadillac from New York City to Dallas through a drive-away car service and soon find themselves stranded in Dallas for 3 days and nights.



For both solace and a place to crash, the band conveniently crashes out in a tanning salon called "Texas Tans" and befriend 2 Dallas natives: Mark Malone, a trash-talking tanning salon worker from the wrong side of the South Dallas tracks who hangs out with members of the city's nouveau riche in the hopes he too might attain their wealth;
 

and Dave Maltrese, the loud-mouth rich kid from the Highland Park section of the city with "gangsta rap" mannerisms who spends his lonely nights mechanically "pulling down women" when not managing the tanning salon owned by his Daddy.

Beguiled by the decadent lifestyles of their scheming Texas hosts, Zoe and the band encounter a slew of obstacles that make their passage to the music festival improbable and absurd.



From deep in the heart of the Lone Star state

comes a tragicomedy that reveals a morally-bankrupt society where almost everyone wants to f*%# themselves to a better future.

CREW

Writers-John Dean Alfone & Matthew Stafford
Producer-TeoCarlo Pulgar
Director-John Dean Alfone
Assistant Director-TeoCarlo Pulgar
Cinematography-Tenolian Bell
Assistant Camera-Kristian Portella
Script Supervisor-Raunakk Kothari
Gaffer-Aaron Schellinck
Key Grip-Sinan Hepcakar
Production Designer-Daniela Leonardi
Art Director-Mariano Airaldi
Sound Recordist-Jeremiah Kipp
Boom Operator-Marty Park
Production Assistant-Agus Roap
Production Assistant-Stuart Dearnley
Production Assistant-Brandy Palmer
Production Assistant-David "Quartermilk" Cortorreal
Post-Production Supervisor-Ben Foster

CAST

Ghosts of the Halcyon Dream
Zoe-Kristen Harlow
Jake-Ramsay Palmer
Trippy-Adam Harris
Dave Maltrese-Ben Rinzler
Jay "Jenkins" Jenkins-Brandon Wilcox
Mature Drunken Woman-Anne Fizzard

MUSIC

Fugazi-"Furniture" EP/7" (Dischord Records)
Kaki King-"Close Your Eyes & You'll Burst into Flames" from Everybody Loves You (Velour Music)

Special Thanks

Patrick DiRenna & Mevlut Akkaya-(Digital Film Academy)
725 Washington
Studio Coffee Shop
Siberia Bar
Midtown Tanning (Dominick Ameno)
Pink Pony Cafe
Josh Crosby
Kelly Cooper
Chris Kerson
Steven Alexander
John Buckley
Jeremy Lieberman

Shout out to all my New York peeps who made this work (in-progress) a success!

For further information e-mail jalfone@cox.net

Keep the faith...