Sundance Hit Comedy SERIOUS PEOPLE- Opening in theaters Nov 14 with a VOD Release to follow. (Memory/ Tribeca Films)

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SERIOUS PEOPLE

“Life’s a Movie”

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY: Pasqual Gutierrez & Ben Mullinkosson

PRODUCED BY: Ryan Hahn, Laurel Thomson, Teddy Lee

STARRING: Pasqual Gutierrez, Christine Yuan, RJ Sanchez, Miguel Huerta

OFFICIAL SELECTION: SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2025

OPENING IN THEATERS NOVEMBER 14 WITH A VOD RELEASE TO FOLLOW ON DECEMBER 16 ON ALL MAJOR PLATFORMS.

Successful Music Video director Pasqual Gutierrez is faced with a dilemma on the due date of his first-born child: a job offer for his biggest video yet. Frustrated with his poor work/life balance, Gutierrez casts a doppelgänger named Miguel to take over his work duties in his director duo Cliqua as he prepares to take an extended paternity leave. But as Pasqual starts to spend more time with Miguel to teach him how to step into this new role, Pasqual's relationship and his work suffer, ending with a disastrous music video shoot. SERIOUS PEOPLE explores what it means to be a “director,” a parent, and the replaceability of people in clout-heavy Los Angeles.

PASQUAL GUTIERREZ (IG) is an award-winning American filmmaker best known for his work in  Cliqua, the Mexican American directing duo alongside RJ Sanchez. Collectively, the two have worked with artists Bad Bunny, Rosalia, J Balvin, Madonna, Travis Scott, The Weeknd, and many more. Gutierrez has accumulated various nominations and accolades in the music video world, including one MTV VMA. As a fiction director, his debut short film Shut Up & Fish is currently finishing its festival circuit and is Oscar qualified. Serious People is Gutierrez’s first feature film as a writer and director which had its world premiere at Sundance in 2025.

BEN MULLINKOSSON (IG ) is an award-winning American filmmaker whose debut narrative feature SERIOUS PEOPLE world premiered at Sundance in 2025. In 2023, he directed the smash documentary THE LAST YEAR OF DARKNESS, which won the Special Jury Mention at CPH:DOX and was released by MUBI. Mullinkosson's first doc DON'T BE A DICK ABOUT IT won the Audience Award in 2018 at IDFA, the biggest documentary festival in the world, and is distributed by Oscilloscope. His short film, GNARLY IN PINK, premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in 2013 and was distributed by The New York Times Op-Docs. A number of his other short films have received Vimeo Staff Picks and have millions of views. Ben speaks Chinese fluently and is an X Games gold medalist for halfpipe skateboard competition in China.

TRIBECA FILMS is a distribution label that brings independent films from top festivals to streaming platforms and creates revenue-generating opportunities for filmmakers. Embracing our New York spirit, Tribeca Films showcases these films to new audiences across a wide distribution infrastructure and on the Tribeca Channel. Presented by Tribeca Enterprises in partnership with Giant Pictures. Visit us at  www.tribecafilm.com/tribecafilms

MEMORY is an independent, artist-driven production and distribution company founded by Sebastian Pardo and Riel Roch-Decter in 2014, dedicated to innovative, formally adventurous filmmaking. For over 10 years the studio has collaborated with multi-hyphenate filmmakers and artists such as: Zia Anger, Amalia Ulman, DIS, Celia Rowlson-Hall, Carson Mell, Martine Syms, Dean Fleischer- Camp, Marnie Ellen Hertzler, Joshua Citarella, Sophy Romvari, Noah Collier and Emily MacKenzie on a mix of feature films, episodic, live performance and exhibits cutting across fiction and nonfiction. Recognized for their visionary approach, in 2020 MEMORY was awarded the Cinereach Producing Award for their work in “shaping new ways of filmmaking”.

In 2024 MEMORY’s production MY FIRST FILM from Zia Anger starring Odessa Young was released by MUBI and they co released Niclas Larsson’s debut MOTHER, COUCH! Starring Ewan McGregor, Ellen Burstyn and Taylor Russell alongside Film Movement. In 2025 MEMORY has released Corey Hughes’ YOUR FINAL MEDITATION, Nellie Kluz’s THE DELLS and will be releasing Julian Castronovo’s DEBUT, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued.

RUNNING TIME: 86 minutes (USA, Feature Film)

Social Media: @Tribeca @memory.is

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