I Make Good Sounds At Parties

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER/EDITOR

A lonely man attends a house party that grows nightmarishly surreal.

Selection of:

Portland Film Festival 2021

Cinequest Film Festival 2021

Hollyshorts Film Festival 2021

New Jersey Film Festival 2021

NewFilmmakers Los Angeles - Nominated for “Best Comedy”, winner for “Best Performance”, 2021

Los Angeles LGBT Feedback Film Festival 2021

At parties, we avoid eye contact. We clutch onto leaden solo cups. When we suffered breakups, we lost our sense of identity in every social engagement. We forgot how to be alone. When we came out as queer, we forgot how to act like ourselves entirely, wondering if our performances of queerness would even reflect who we are now. In the benefit of hindsight, all of this is hilarious material for a narrative short. Who hasn’t felt existential at a party full of people they think are so much more confident?

"I Make Good Sounds at Parties" is a descent into a nervous breakdown, mapping our social anxieties onto a funny, alarming canvas. We wanted the film to feel as queer, isolated, idiosyncratic and absurd as we feel ourselves to be at parties. To us, those are the best sounds you can make.

- Amanda and Russell

Directed, produced, and edited by Amanda Prager
Written, produced, and edited by Russell Goldman
Starring Russell Goldman
Executive Producer - Salvador Falcon
Associate Producer - Josh Horowitz
Assistant Director - Mara Woods-Robinson
Director of Photography & Colorist - Ali Arminio
Assistant Camera - Kendall Edwards
Gaffer & Colorist - Matt Kleppner
Key Grip - Erique DuBoise
G&E Swing - Justin Lee
Script Supervisor - Emmet Daly
Production Designer - Beatrix Henriott O'Gorman
Makeup Artist - Lauren Verret
Art PAs - Logan Rolin, Josh Horowitz, Ariel Adler
Sound Recordist - Jack Warren
Sound Editor & Mixer - Nate Flaks