Goodbye Seventies is the latest feature film from pioneering arthouse filmmaker Todd Verow. Verow’s debut feature Frisk was released in the mid-90s, blazing a trail in the early era of gay indie forebears Swoon, Poison, and The Living End. Since then, he has directed over twenty-five feature films and numerous shorts, establishing himself as the most prolific auteur of the New Queer Cinema.

In the vein of Boogie Nights, this film is a provocative homage to the 1970s golden age of gay pornography. Taking place in New York City, the film follows a promising chorus boy who is injured and told he will never dance again. Distraught and unimpressed with the “art” films playing seedy Times Square theaters, he gets his friends and lovers together to start making their own hardcore movies. Against all odds, the films are wildly successful until drugs, AIDS, and cheap video technology bring it all crashing down.

Prior films of Verow’s include cult classics such as Little Shots of Happiness and The Trouble with Perpetual Deja-Vu. The Goodbye Seventies DVD release includes the Todd Verow short film Nob Hill. In addition to releasing the film on DVD and traditional VOD platforms, Ariztical Entertainment plans to include it on their site Ariztical NOW, a subscription VOD platform which includes a strong library of LGBTQ titles. Ariztical is excited to provide this new outlet for independent and queer films as part of the company’s continuing commitment to serve under-represented audiences and to create new opportunities for LGBTQ filmmakers.

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The name of this film makes me think of this tune from Yazoo/Yaz….

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In Goodbye, Butterfly, Ryan Olsen is a loving family man with the perfect life… until the day his five-year-old daughter is murdered. When the official police investigation hits a dead end, Ryan has a chance encounter with Stan Granger, an oddball neighbor from down the street, and becomes convinced that Stan is the killer. But, after the police ignore his suspicions, Ryan’s obsession with Stan quickly turns violent and, as he takes the law into his own hands, he must ultimately decide how far he’s willing to go in order to find out the truth. Twists and turns will keep audiences at the edge of their seats as they ponder the question: How would you go for justice? After all, when you’ve lost everything, you become capable of anything.

GoodbyeButterfly” is a captivating, performance driven psychological thriller and the screenwriting and feature film directorial debut of gifted Asian American filmmaker Tyler Wayne. Shot in a style reminiscent of David Fincher and The Coen Brothers, the film will appeal to much of the same vast audiences who turned “Prisoners,” “Se7en,” and “Mindhunter” into successful cult classics. The film features a haunting original score by Emmy® Award and ASCAP winning composer Peter Fish, and stars Adam Donshik (“House of Cards,” “Mr. Mercedes”), Andy Lauer (“Iron Man 3,” “Caroline in the City”), Marie Burke (“The Bobby DeBarge Story,” “If Loving You Is Wrong”), Angela Sauer (“Jane The Virgin,” “Master of Sex”), Addison Ross (“Southern Gothic,” “A Very Quarantwinned Christmas”), Jennifer Adams (“Heir of the Witch,” “More than You”), and Jeremy London (“Mallrats,” “Party of Five”). We are thrilled to also offer our stars and filmmakers for interview consideration and have you consider for review this incredible thriller.

An Artman Cooper and FT3 Mediaworks joint production, theGoodbye, Butterfly” filmmaking team is led by writer/director Tyler Wayne, produced by Artisha Mann Cooper (“Inside the Actors Studio,” “I Can, I Will, I Did”), Jonathan J. Cooper, Keema Mingo (“Fed Up, “The 24th”), Mindy D. Marin (“37,” “Walk on Water”), and executive produced by Juniano Chen and Tyler Wayne, with cinematography by Jose Zambrano Cassella (“The Executioners,” “Inside Wynonna Earp: After Twilight”), editing by Brad McLaughlin (“Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens,” “DOA: Dead or Alive”), and an original score by Emmy® award and ASCAP winning composer Peter Fish (“All My Children”).

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