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Tired of city life, Amy hopes for calm on a Wyoming getaway with fiancé Max. But sparks fly instead with a local, lighting her soul on fire. Peak Season’s gorgeous landscapes merely frame a meditation on life’s commitments—security or joy?

Consultant Amy and businessman Max escape New York for Jackson Hole’s towering peaks. Yet wedding planning strains as Max’s workaholism leaves little room for Amy. Alone one day, she meets outdoorsman Loren, a kindred spirit to her own adventurous side long stifled.

As their bond blossoms hiking and rodeoing, Amy glimpses a life of passion over convention. Loren lives freely between jobs, at home in nature despite car-sleeping. But nagging doubts remain: can she abandon plans and follow her heart’s wanderlust?

Flitting between platonic and romantic, their bond subtly deepens over days. Director duo Kanter and Loevner relax rigid romance tropes, sharpening Peak Season’s thought-provoking soul.

Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on Wbgr-fm on August 1st, reviewing “Peak Season,” set in Jackson, Wyoming, and involving a couple trying to negotiation “forbidden” feelings. In theaters beginning on August 2nd.

Rating: 3.5/5.0

Loren (Derrick Joseph DeBlasis), makes his living in Jackson mostly as a fly fishing instructor and guide, and lives in his car. When an engaged couple … Ben Coleman as Max and Claudia Restrepo as Amy … comes to town from New York for a vacation, Max’s business deals means that Amy takes fishing lessons alone, and develops a connection to the flighty and stoic Loren. When Max goes out of town for his business, Amy and Loren run into each other and spend time with each other in the beautiful and re-orienting town.

”Peak Season” opens in theaters on August 2nd. See local listings. Featuring Derrick Joseph DeBlasis,...

"I moved out here when I was 20, and sort of fell in love with it... I do what I want when I want, how I want." Ent. Squad has revealed an official trailer for an indie romantic comedy film titled Peak Season, which first premiered at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival last year. In a picturesque Wyoming town, burnt-out corporate consultant Amy and the free-spirited fishing guide Loren form an unexpected bond... Amy, a New Yorker struggling with her high-pressure career and her engagement to the work-obsessed Max, finds solace in Loren's simple, liberated lifestyle. As they spend time fishing, hiking, and exploring Jackson, Amy begins to question her life choices and yearn for the freedom Loren embodies. Their growing connection leads to romantic tension and deep conversations about life's true meaning. Starring Claudia Restrepo, Derrick Joseph DeBlasis, Ben Coleman, Fred Melamed, Stephanie Courtney, & Greg Coleman. Well this looks quite good!

Exclusive: Entertainment Squad, has acquired SXSW’s premiere film, Peak Season, and set a theatrical release for August 2.

Helmed by Henry Loevner and Steven Kanter, who previously collaborated on the critically acclaimed The End of Us, Peak Season is an exploration of personal discovery and the road less traveled set against the stunning backdrop of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The film stars Claudia Restrepo, Derrick DeBlasis, and Ben Coleman, Fred Melamed and Stephanie Courtney who is famously known as “Flo” in Progressive commercials.

Both a bittersweet romantic comedy and a clever social commentary, Peak Season follows a burnt-out New Yorker who travels to Wyoming with her fiancé, but then falls for a handsome, yet troubled ski-bum, and questions whether to leave her city life behind.

Loevner and Kanter commented in a joint statement: “We set out...

We are less than a year removed from Robert Redford’s provocative declaration, at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival’s opening presser, that “there are too many film festivals.” It was a comment that itself came a year after Redford’s even more contentious comment that, as far as he knew, his Park City annual was the only festival in the world that could claim to be “purely independent.” Most of the world’s film festivals are still in revival mode following more than three years of cancellations, hybridizations, shutterings and overhauls, and the persistent question of whether or not they’re still necessary to cinema culture should arguably begin with the regional film festival—a category that contains more than 95% of the world’s festivals, and also does not include Sundance. Without getting too hung up on the terms “regional” and “independent”—the latter, in particular, is prone to very...

The film Peak Season, which premiered at the South By Southwest festival, follows the story of lonely Amy (Claudia Restrepo) and her fiancé Max (Ben Coleman) as they take a summer trip to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where they meet the charming wilderness guide Loren (Derrick DeBlasis).

In an exclusive interview with uInterview founder Erik Meers, Restrepo, Coleman and DeBlasis revealed their favorite scenes to shoot.

“My was the rodeo scene, I guess it’s not really character development but it was very fun and it felt like a pinnacle of her and Loren’s relationship,” Restrepo said. “They’re really getting to experience if they were just out on a date and having fun and it’s like the highest form of this like the romanticism of Wyoming or the American West and we just got to hang out. There’s a lot of that because it was filmed sort of like a fairy tale,...

The 2023 SXSW Film Festival kicks into high gear today, and Screen Rant is pleased to present an exclusive clip from one of the films in its Narrative Spotlights section: Peak Season. Written by Henry Loevner and co-directed by him and Steven Kanter, Peak Season follows Amy & Max, two yuppies from New York who make their way to Jackson Hole for a Wyoming-style vacation. But when Max is too busy working to make time for his fiancée, Amy finds herself drawn to the carefree Loren and wonders if she'll even return home with Max.

Peak Season stars Claudia Restrepo as Amy, Derrick Joseph DeBlasis as Loren, and Ben Coleman as Max. All three actors worked on Loevner and Kanter's previous project, The End of Us, so their new film doubles as a family reunion of sorts in the Tetons. Peak Season also stars Fred Melamed (who recently appeared in Hulu's Reboot), Stephanie Courtney,...

Exclusive: Following six seasons as Howard Hamlin on AMC’s megahit Better Call Saul, Patrick Fabian has signed on to lead the indie The Way We Speak from writer-director Ian Ebright (From the Sky).

Billed as an allegory about America’s fractured politics and culture, the film follows Simon (Fabian), an up-and-coming commentator whose world is turned upside down when his best friend and debate opponent suffers a fatal heart attack. Simon refuses to leave the spotlight at an annual thought-leader summit, leading to an obsession with his new opponent and a growing rift with his ailing wife, Claire (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit’s Diana Coconubo).

Ebright’s Broken Telegraph is producing the pic, also to star Kailey Rhodes (Black Pool), Ayanna Berkshire (Twilight) and Lowell Deo (Z Nation). Fabian is repped by The Kohner Agency and Essential Talent Management.

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Exclusive: Cinedigm has acquired North American rights to...

Exclusive: Sony Pictures Television (Spt) is kicking off its 2023 Diverse Writers Program giving 10 participants the opportunity to link up with industry professionals in a four-week course.

“Our mission is to produce content that is undeniably entertaining and, most importantly, reflective of the world around us. A crucial part of that is having a continuous pipeline of talented emerging creators,” said Jeffrey Glaser and Marie Jacobson, Co-Heads of Current Programming, Sony Pictures Television. “We are firmly committed to identifying and developing a diverse roster of talent and look forward to our creative departments working alongside this new class of writers.”

At the end of the training portion of the program, participants will meet with Spt showrunners, producers, development and current executives and be considered for potential staffing opportunities on US productions.

See the list of participants that were chosen for this year’s class:

• Aeden O’Connor

• ApurupA

• Cameron Ali Fay...

Henry Loevner, Steven Kanter directed film about couple going through break-up during pandemic.

Jason Moring’s Ddi has come on board to launch worldwide sales at the EFM on BuzzFeed Studios’ pandemic comedy and upcoming SXSW selection The End Of Us.

Henry Loevner and Steven Kanter directed the film about a couple going through a break-up during a global pandemic.

It is the night of March 10, 2020 – the eve of the California lockdown – as out-of-work actor Nick and his type-a girlfriend Leah are in the throes of splitting up.

When the safer-at-home order ushers in a long period of quarantine, Leah...

Exclusive: BuzzFeed Studios has signed on to executive produce the Schlemiel Pictures pandemic comedy The End of Us which is set to make its world premiere in competition next month at the SXSW Film Festival. Directed by Henry Loevner and Steven Kanter, the film stars Ben Coleman and Ali Vingiano as a couple going through a break up during a — you guessed it — a global pandemic. To get a taste of the romantic dysfunction, BuzzFeed Studios and Schlemiel Pictures released an exclusive clip from the film which you can watch above.

“BuzzFeed is known for content featuring smart, socially relevant themes, and The End of Us speaks to the experiences we endured over the past year through a sharply funny and wryly observant lens,” said Richard Alan Reid, Head of BuzzFeed Studios. “We are excited about our new partnership with the filmmakers, and look forward to our debut at SXSW...