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Nico Tortorella, Juan Pablo Di Pace , Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Emily to headline ‘The Mattachine Family’

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(L-R) Nico Tortorella, Juan Pablo Di Pace, Carl Clemons-Hopkins and Emily Hampshire

Nico Tortorella (Younger, The Walking Dead: World Beyond), Juan Pablo Di Pace (A.D. The Bible Continues, Fuller HouseMamma Mia!), Emmy Award nominee Carl Clemons-Hopkins (Hacks, Candyman) and Emily Hampshire (Schitt’s Creek, Chapelwaite, The Rig) are set to star in the family drama The Mattachine Family, which is currently in production. Acclaimed video and commercial director Andy Vallentine makes his feature directorial debut from a screenplay by his husband Danny Vallentine, based on a story by the pair. 

The film’s ensemble cast also includes Jake Choi (Lust, Life, Love, Single Parents), Annie Funke (This is Us, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders), Heather Matarazzo (The Princess Diaries, Welcome to the Dollhouse) and Cloie Wyatt Taylor (Yes Day, Shameless). 

A Huckleberry Media Production, The Mattachine Family focuses on Thomas (Tortorella) and Oscar (Di Pace), a couple very much in love. But they find, after their first foster child returns to his birth mother, that they have different ideas about what it means to make a family. The film is produced by Mike Diaz, Scot Boland, Andy Vallentine, Siddharth Ganji and Cameron Hutchison. Zach Braff is an Executive Producer.

The production is represented by Asa Pitt at Pitt APC. Andy Vallentine is well known for his commercial work with such brands as Mercedes Benz and Sephora as well as his video work with artists such as Patrick Starr and Joey Graceffa. His acclaimed short film, The Letter Men, based on a recently discovered trove of WWII love letters between two men, is currently on the festival circuit.

Photos courtesy of Santiago Felipe; Scott Hoover; Chris Jon; Vanessa Heins

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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