“A hilarious skewering of the shallowness of the movie industry and the paranoia and mistrust that afflicts the guilty. Cummings and McCabe’s film touches a raw nerve with sharp, funny, awkwardly prickly provocation.”
– Rodrigo Perez, The Playlist
“Indie-movie triple-threat Jim Cummings (Thunder Road), along with his co-writer and co-director PJ McCabe, have delivered a seriously dizzying, unnerving conspiracy thriller.”
– David Fear, Rolling Stone
Synopsis
A married Hollywood agent receives a mysterious letter for an anonymous sexual encounter and becomes ensnared in a sinister world of lying, murder and infidelity in this scintillating satire.
About the Filmmakers
Jim Cummings is a Sundance and South by Southwest Winning filmmaker from New Orleans. He is a champion of the digital independent filmmaking renaissance and is very vocal at film festival happy hours and on social media about DIY filmmaking. His films Thunder Road and The Wolf of Snow Hollow have been showcased and praised around the world for their genre-fluid aesthetics and his new film The Beta Test is no different. He lives in Los Angeles and treats his home like a film studio.
PJ McCabe is a writer, director, and actor from Philadelphia. His films have been showcased at Sundance, South by Southwest, and Fantasia Film Festivals. His most recent feature and directorial debut (The Beta Test) premiered at Berlinale and the Tribeca FilmFestival. He has also written and developed multiple projects for such networks as FX and Hulu. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and his dog.
Written and Directed by: Jim Cummings and PJ McCabe
Produced by: Natalie Metzger, Matt Miller, and Benjamin Wiessner
Cinematographer: Kenneth Wales
Edited by: Jim Cummings
Starring: Jim Cummings, Virginia Newcomb, PJ McCabe, Kevin Changaris, Olivia Grace Applegate, Jessie Barr
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