Going Down In LA-LA Land - Trailer

WINNER! Audience Award BEST FILM -- Tel Quels Festival de Belgique, Brussels WINNER! Audience Award BEST FILM -- Desperado Film Festival, Phoneix, AZ WINNER! Audience Award BEST FILM -- Barcelona International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival WINNER! BEST GAY FILM -- QCinmea, Fort Worth, TX WINNER! BEST ACTRESS - Allison Lane -- Iris Prize, Cardiff, Wales WINNER! BEST DIRECTOR - Casper Andreas -- The Connecticut Gay & Lesbian Film Festival PRESS "Going Down in La-La Land truly captures what Los Angeles can be. To some it’s a fairy tale filled with insane opportunities and to others it’s a wasteland that sucks the meat from your bones. There are dark aspects, dangers but also triumphs and heartfelt relationships. It’s a complex film that will take you on a journey through the gutter and then out again, hopefully, no worse for wear." -Edge Boston "A polished, entertaining look at biz realities... well crafted and diverting throughout." -Variety "Writer-director Casper Andreas has crafted a sexy but also funny and wise squinty-eyed look at Tinseltown, from the seductive side to the seedy (often one and the same), from the glamour to the pitfalls." - Dallas Voice "a sharp-edged satire about naked ambition" -The Philadelphia Inquirer "Going Down in LA-LA Land makes every characters’ desperation—for money, drugs, sex, or love believable. [The film] is perfect summer entertainment—the right mix of message and mindlessness." - The Bay Times “Director-actor Casper Andreas has adapted Andy Zeffer's 2006 wistfully comic novel with such a light touch that the action moves swiftly, and the characters seem to jump off the screen.” - The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “[Going Down in LA-LA Land] is quick-witted, funny, and driven by a well thought-out and solid narrative. Its portrait of the Hollywood machine is brimming with just the right amount of cynicism to make it sharp, but it never overdoes the melodrama. Andreas manages to find a wonderful dry sense of humour that is the force behind the film’s core charm, and that gives it pace and energy. Yet outside of the jokes it doesn’t shy away from serious situations, especially when tackling morals, drug addiction, and the sex industry. Generous lashings of genuine romance give it depth and intelligence as well as laughs. Andreas’s direction is sound and glossy, making it feel like a polished Hollywood film. - So-So Gay SYNOPSIS A candid, sexy, and outrageously funny look at what an actor can – and will do – to survive in Hollywood. Young, handsome, and ambitious, Adam arrives from New York with dreams of making it big in L.A. He moves in with his zany best friend Candy who, between auditions, spends her time at the gym, shopping, or looking for a wealthy man. Adam gets off to a rocky start, complete with parking tickets and an insufferable job answering phones. A new job in production looks promising, but soon Adam finds himself dealing with down-and-out directors, washed up starlets, and meth addicts, as he starts to loose himself in a seamy underworld of gay porn and prostitution.