I had the opportunity to interview award-winning writer, director, actor, and producer Dorie Barton about her latest film Welcome to the Show.
She wrote the film for students of her acting on-camera class at Virginia Commonwealth University, which we discuss during THIS INTERVIEW.
It was such an honor to chat with Dorie! |THIS.
[By Alex The Host]
About Welcome to the Show:
An invitation to a mysterious theatre piece called “The Show” sends four best friends down a rabbit hole of mistrust and madness as they try to figure out who are the actors, who is the audience, who is doing this to them, and why.
Acclaimed filmmaker Dorie Barton follows up her hit indie comedy GIRL FLU (2016) with a delicious, trippy Thanksgiving tale of twisted morality and tested friendships.
In this inverted escape room mystery, the only thing holding these friends together is the fractured belief that there must be some kind of logic to the absurdity.
Welcome to the Show won “Best Feature Film” at the Big Apple Film Festival and has received many other accolades and awards over its 2021 festival tour including “Best Director” and “Best Ensemble Cast” at Big Bear Film Summit, and “Best Local Film” and “Best Local Band” at the Richmond International Film and Music Festival where it was the Opening Night Feature.
“Barton’s writing and directing really shines in Welcome to the Show,” notes Council of Zoom. And Reel News Daily wrote, “The cast is extraordinary. Welcome to the Show is the epitome of independent film in the best ways.”
