Nominated for Best Feature Comedy
Austin Revolution Film Festival
Nominated for Best Produced Feature Script
Austin Revolution Film Festival
WORLD PREMIERE SEPTEMBER 6TH 2019 8:30 PM
WINNER Best Actor in a US Feature: Tim Dowd
Austin Revolution Film Festival
NORTHEAST PREMIERE SEPT 21st 5pm
A loving but socially awkward long term couple wants to spice up their sex life by having a threesome. Now they must battle insecurities, social taboos and the dreaded internet to find...The Third Person!
(DIRECTOR, CO-WRITER, PRODUCER)
Ian Buckley is the writer/director of Threeway, his feature film debut. A Licensed Massage Therapist by trade, film has always been a driving creative passion for him. Particularly inspired by the works of Kevin Smith, Noah Baumbach, Kelly Reichardt and Richard Linklater he has written and directed several shorts before diving into the waters of feature filmmaking.
Nominated for: Best Director (Austin Revolution Film Festival), Best Produced Screenplay (Austin Revolution Film Festival), Best Feature Length Comedy (Austin Revolution Film Festival)
(SAM, CO-WRITER, PRODUCER)
Tim Dowd is a New York based actor, writer, producer and board recognized lord of the geeks. He has worked with most recently with Shakespeare and Company, The Pearl Theater and Greenbriar Valley Theater. In addition to his theatrical work is the founder of Plan Z Productions, an independent film company and YouTube sketch comedy channel. He is also a proud member of the PIT house sketch team “Church Social” helping to provide some of the freshest live sketch comedy in the city.
www.timdowd.com
Nominated for: Best Feature Actor (Austin Revolution Film Festival-WINNER), Actor of the Year (Austin Revolution Film Festival), Best Produced Script (Austin Revolution Film Festival), Best Feature Length Comedy (Austin Revolution Film Festival).
(CHLOE)
Leanne Mercadante hails from upstate New York and has performed in numerous Shakespeare plays and independent works. She currently lives and works in Boston as a UX designer. ‘Threeway’ is her first feature film.
(IAN)
James Parenti (Ian) had a wonderful time working with PlanZ on Threeway! Some stage credits include Angels in America and The Importance of Being Earnest (Playhouse on Park), The Tempest and Love's Labour's Lost (Hip to Hip), POPTART! (Girl Just Died), and Cupid & Psyche (TTF). Film/TV: Anything You Ever, Love Pockets, Adapting, Emergency Contacts. As a playwright, James' play May Violets Spring has been produced at the Bridge Theatre, Workshop Theatre, and Joriah Theatre. BFA, Marymount Manhattan College.
(ALEX)
Molly Densmore is a NYC based actor and comic. She graduated with a degree in musical theatre from Wagner College and has appeared Off-Broadway and at other NYC venues, including the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and NYMF. She transitioned to more on-camera work and can be seen online on websites such as Collegehumor and in various web series. She’s been in a number of indie films, an Amazon series and in various national and international commercials. Accolades include ‘Best Actress’ at the Nohu International Film Festival for ‘Monster,’ a short granted a waiver at Sundance; as well as various nominations, including the Rome Web Awards, for her portrayal as Lucky in the web series turned feature, ‘While Waiting for Godot.’ Molly has performed standup around NYC, as well as in LA and Dublin. For more info, visit mollydensmore.com.
Nominated for: Best Supporting Actress in a Feature (Golden Door International Film Festival)
(JOE)
Aaron Gold is an actor, comedian, and pretty tall dude living in New York City. Signed with Take 3 Talent, he hosts and performs in You Are Not Alone: An Uplifting Show About Depression at the Magnet Theater, as well as the podcast Don't Mind If I Don't, where fans and experts of things he doesn't like convince him why he is wrong. If you see him, tell him how proud you are of him. You can lie to his face, he won't mind.
(ESTHER)
Esther Chen is an actor and stand up comedian from Taiwan, and a cast of the ABC Showcase. She can be seen at Gotham Comedy Club, Broadway Comedy Club and Comic Strip Live. TV: Succession, Y: The Last Man, The Hunt, Wu-Tang: An American Saga, MTV, Buzzfeed, Fung Brothers. proud creator of Youtube channel: Drunk Chinese Class and the award-winning pilot Wide Open. www.TheEstherChen.com Twitter/Instagram: @TheEstherChen_
(TAYLOR)
Andy Zou is a filmmaker and creative based in Brooklyn. You can find his kooky videos at www.andyzou.com.
(KAITLIN)
Mara Lee Gilbert is an award-winning actor, filmmaker, and writer (including the Award of Artistic and Technical Merit-Best Shorts Competition; Richard Henry Hommel Award for Outstanding Theatrical Contribution; Audience Choice Award-Macabre Faire Film Festival). She explores the lines between beauty and the grotesque, seeking to unravel taboos.
Her latest article, The Monster's Monster, is published in Waif magazine, Issue 13; www.iswaif.com/magazine .
Her full-length play, PASSAGE, exploring pain, pleasure, and euthanasia, has been invited to showcase in both NYC and LA and is currently in discussion for an Off-Broadway run in NYC.
@MaraLeeGilbert
(PRODUCER)
Brooke Flowers had the great pleasure of working on Threeway during her senior year at NYU. She graduated in 2014 with a BFA in Film and Television and immediately started working as a Producer’s Assistant for scripted television shows. At the end of 2017 Brooke made a career shift and joined a boutique editorial house as an Assistant Editor. While she still enjoys producing, she has found a passion in the post world and hopes to climb the ranks and perhaps one day work with Tim and Ian again as an Editor. She would like to thank the entire Threeway team for one of the most memorable and life changing experiences of her career. Congratulations to all!
Nominated for: Best Feature Length Comedy (Austin Revolution Film Festival)
(DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY)
As a kid, Casey split his time in and around local theater productions and exploring D.C. on his BMX. Then, he moved to New York to go NYU’s Tisch School of The Arts to pursue a degree in Film and Television. Casey has gone onto to direct pieces for multiple Fortune 500 companies, dozens of musicians and countless brands. His films have screened all over the world, including most recently at the Tribeca Film Festival and The New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center where Holy Night, an interactive film about addiction in small town America, screened. In 2018, Casey was commissioned to write a psychological thriller feature film set inside an NFL locker room.
His work has spanned genres, mediums and technologies, but most often times you can find Casey leading films, commercials, documentaries, virtual reality pieces, and most importantly, interactive films. Overall, Casey tries to tell stories that make a difference by elevating voices that need to be heard.
In his spare time, you can usually find Casey on one of his (likely too many) bicycles.
Nominated for: Best cinematography (Austin Revolution Film Festival)
(Editor)
Robert Pigott is a film editor and writer based in New York City. From the age of 15, he's edited short form web content for YouTube to feature length films. Graduating from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 2015, some of his credits include working as an assistant editor on the HBO documentary, United Skates, and the PBS American Masters documentary, The Highwayman: Friends till the End, as well as editing several award winning short films. Currently, he is working on publishing his first novel.
Nominated for: Best Editing (Austin Revolution Film Festival)
