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WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY CONOR BYRNEPRODUCED BY TYLER BYRNE & RICHARD PEETE

STARRING JAKE RYAN (INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS, MOONRISE KINGDOM)

12m54s / COLOR / 2.39: 1 / ARRI ALEXA

A 10-year-old boy is thrust into the tumultuous world of puberty when he gets a new pair of eyeglasses.

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CONOR BYRNE (WRITER/DIRECTOR) graduated from Wesleyan University’s film program with High Honors, where his thesis film won the Stephen J. Ross prize for Best Film and the Frank Capra award for comedy. Conor is a National Board of Review grant awardee, and a recent recipient of the IFP/Sony Pictures Classics Marcie Bloom Fellowship in Film. His passion for cinema was revealed at a young age; as a 3-year-old, Conor Halloween-ed as both the Errol Flynn version of Robin Hood (before lunch, with pencil-thin mustache), as well as Kevin Costner's Robin Hood (after lunch, sans ‘stache). Nowadays, he watches a lot of movies.

TYLER BYRNE (PRODUCER) started his career in front of the camera as the face of Kix Cereal. His Wesleyan University thesis film, Extension, premiered at the 2010 GenArt Film Festival in New York City and has been championed by the international Type 1 diabetes community as an inspirational and educational tool. After working with acclaimed writer/director Neil Burger, Tyler has gone on to produce branded content, music videos and award-winning short films that have played at festivals throughout the country. Most recently, he co-produced indie thriller Blue Ruin, which played at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival where it received the International Critics Award, and has since played at TIFF 2013, Sundance 2014 and is being released by RADiUS-Weinstein Company. 

BRUDDER FILMS is us: TYLER & CONOR BYRNE. We became Brudders when Tyler was 2 and Conor was born. We were reared in the wilds of northern Jersey, studied film at Wesleyan, and nowadays we make movies together across The George in NYC. We are particularly interested in telling stories with a custom blend of comedy, pathos, and artifice, and we’re perpetually fascinated by the wonderland that is Suburban America.

I’ve been an eyeglasses-wearer since the tender age of two. My mom caught the emergence of a lazy eye when I was watching TV, and after a short stint in an eyepatch, I landed in a pair of tiny clear plastic frames with rubber wrap-around arms. Stylish. Too young to really feel anxiety over the arrival of my specs, I embraced it all, and my bespectacledness has since become an essential part of me. Alas, I did get conked in the nose by a pop fly some years later, but I was just a bad right fielder. Eyeglasses aside, however, I was no stranger to feeling inherently marked and anxiety-stricken during the period just before puberty. Your body is starting to change, and you’re suddenly aware that there’s this big thing out there, but you’re not sure what it is or how it works. There’s certainly intense curiosity – but there’s also fear of the unknown. The looming question of “Am I Normal?” hangs in your head.

In FOUREYES, this phenomenon is externalized as Bobby’s eyeglasses. Bobby is a kid who is starting to discover his own sexuality – a concept that he feels drawn to, mystified by, and perhaps even afraid of in the most exciting way. The swimsuit issue he’s lusting after is a magical bounty that he’s naturally attracted to: boobs, butts, beaches, and otherworldly excitement. Therein lies endless bliss. At the same time, however, there’s a lot more that Bobby can’t really see - or understand - yet. That rogue little league pop fly seems to drop from the heavens and choose him; Bobby is suddenly thrust into a freakish process of overwhelming realization. The arrival of his eyeglasses is the catalyst to his natural journey – one wrought with moments of wide-eyed wonderment, near-insanity, and eventual self-discovery. We catch Bobby at the fateful juncture at which awe and insecurity collide.

FOUREYES is a psychological comedy about suburban puberty. Our goal was to make a film with a conscious level of cheeky stylization, a distinctly subjective POV, and a lot of heart. Clear artifice without sacrificing emotion. FOUREYES aims to thrust the viewer into a unique, vivid world in which swimsuit issue ecstasy lies just down the hallway and an eyeglasses collection bin stares deeply into your soul.

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

RICHARD PEETE (PRODUCER) is a New York City based producer. He is the owner of Neighborhood Watch Films, a production company focusing on producing short films, commercials, music videos and feature films. In 2013 he produced Jeremy Saulnier's second feature film, Blue Ruin, which premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival where it received the International Critics Award, and has since played at TIFF 2013, Sundance 2014 and will be released by RADiUS/Weinstein Company theatrically in April 2014. He is now in post production on Nathan Silver's fourth feature film Uncertain Terms (2014).

ADAM NEWPORT-BERRA (DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY) is a cinematographer born and bred in the wilderness of Oregon. Now residing in Brooklyn, New York, he photographs short and feature length films, as well as music videos, documentaries, and commercials. When not on set, Adam can usually be found close to a campfire.

SARA K WHITE (PRODUCTION DESIGNER), a trained interior designer, is passionate about creating spaces that develop and support depth and history in characters. Production design credits include The Cold Lands, shown in the Berlin International Film Festival, Big Words, accepted in competition at Slamdance, Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, awarded a Tribeca Film Festival Special Jury Prize, Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child, which premiered at Sundance, and the recently completed My Dead Boyfriend, starring Heather Graham. She cut her teeth art directing powerful indie dramas including Pariah, Return, 4:44 - Last Day on Earth, and Bluebird. Her clients for short form work include Google, Citibank, Skittles, Hasbro, Kodak and Warner Brothers. She is the acting Art Director in Residence at the Sundance Director's Lab.

SOFI MARSHALL (EDITOR) is a film editor based in the New York City whose work has screened all over the world. Her recent projects include Lawrence Levine’s Wild Canaries, which premiered at SXSW 2014 and Hannah Fidell’s A Teacher, which played at Sundance 2013, SXSW 2014 and was released by Oscilloscope Laboratories. 

TED FELDMAN (COMPOSER) is a filmmaker and musician based in Brooklyn, NY. He plays guitar and writes songs for his band Bear Hands. Ted produced their sophomore full-length album, Distraction, out now on Cantora Records. 

DAVID LAUB (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)  is Co-President of NY-based independent distributor Oscilloscope Laboratories, where he oversees acquisitions, marketing and distribution. Oscilloscope's prior releases have included Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin, Oren Moverman's The Messenger, Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy and  Meek's Cutoff, Banksy’s Exit Through the Gift Shop, Evan Glodell's Bellflower, Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights, Matteo Garrone's Reality, and Ron Fricke's and Mark Magidson's Samsara.  Current and upcoming releases include Andrew Dosunmu's Mother of George, Lana Wilson and Martha Shane's After Tiller, Matt Wolf's Teenage, and two prize-winners from this year's Tribeca Film Festival, Sam Fleischner's Stand Clear of the Closing Doors and Dan Krauss' Kill Team.  David is an executive producer on two of Oscilloscope’s recent releases, Omar Mullick and Bassam Tariq’s These Birds Walk and Lotfy Nathan’s 12 O’Clock Boys. David previously worked for 5 years at the distributor THINKFilm, where he was involved in the acquisition and distribution of such films as Half Nelson, Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead, The Aristocrats, Murderball, Spellbound, and Taxi to the Dark Side. He has a BA in Film Studies and English from Wesleyan University, and an MA in Film Studies, also from Wesleyan.

COLLABORATORS

JAKE RYAN as Bobby Bowersox

ALFRED GINGOLD as The Eye Doctor

R.J. KELLY as Mr. Boyd Bowersox

LORI FUNK as Mrs. Paulette Bowersox

OLIVIA NIKKANEN as Tiffani Bowersox

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LUKE CAWLEY as The Centerfielder

MERCEDES GRIFFETH as The Girl Scout

JEAN ALLURED as Mrs. Longfellow

HEATHER as Herself

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Conor ByrneTyler ByrneRichard PeeteKevin ByrneDavid LaubAdam Newport-BerraSara K WhiteSofi MarshallTed FeldmanBrooke BennettFay Shumsey

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