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Dust Nuggets

In this complex and intellectually provocative film, KK Colson is the band manager of the wildly successful Dust Nuggets band. Currently she's in a coma from a drug overdose and reliving her band's rise to fame as she struggles with the choice of whether to live or die. The film is comical at times with scenes that anyone who’s ever been in a band will identify with. At heart, though, the story is a drama, portraying KK as she faces the truth of her complicity in her lover’s death. With two story lines running concurrently along with a roadmap written in rhyme, the film has been described as David Lynch meets Dr. Seuss. Cast includes Eric Roberts (Inherent Vice, Dark Knight) and Robert Picardo (Star Trek: Voyager, The Wonder Years, China Beach).

  • Andrew Pochan
    Director
    Traffic Opera, Amazing Berks
  • Sue Lange
    Writer
    Traffic Opera, A Perfect You
  • Sue Lange
    Producer
  • Linnea Sage
    Key Cast
    "KK"
  • Eric Roberts
    Key Cast
    "Harry"
    Inherent Vice, Pope of Greenwich Village
  • Robert Picardo
    Key Cast
    "Ivan"
    Star Trek (Voyager)
  • Chris Heslop
    Key Cast
    "Olson"
    Traffic Opera
  • Sam Pappagallo
    Key Cast
    "Jolson"
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 29 minutes
  • Production Budget:
    50,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Andrew Pochan

Andrew Pochan studied filmmaking at Robert Morris University. He graduated with a BFA in 2011. Following that he studied abroad in Finland and Dubai, UAE with Abbas Kiarostami. He has worked on horror features Don’t Look and The Harvesting, as well as shorts A Perfect You and Traffic Opera among others. He is co-creator and director of the Amazing Berks web series. He has worked in television local news stations, and with QVC. Stage credits include set design with Reading Theater Project’s staging of Speakeasy, Marriage Expo, Snow Sin and Trash, Importance of Being Earnest, and Dead of Winter; and also with Yocum Institute’s The Bear Prince Jazz opera and Metamorphosis Acting Company’s Beethoven Revealed. He has acted in Marriage Expo and the Quick and Dirty Improv group with Reading Theater Project.

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Director Statement

Dust Nuggets isn’t a film about the mind, it is the mind. Everything we touch, sense or feel is from our mind, this movie universe is no different. Buddhist teaching states we humans are the cause of all our own suffering, which is certainly the case for our main character, KK Colson. The course set into motion by KK's chasing after fame, her ambition, her envy of others, comes at a deadly price. As KK and her band, Dust Nuggets, climb up to the top of the Fame Ladder, the audience discovers hidden motives that KK may not even understand. Dust Nuggets not only asks questions about blind ambition and the pursuit of fame, but the blossoming of new love and the struggle for psychological survival.