Film

’The Golden Rut’ makes LA debut at Southern Screen The tongue-in-cheek comedy by the Holden Brothers examines the “golden rut” that creatives fall into when they choose the gilded cage of comfortability and complacency.

The Golden Rut is a film by Lafayette natives Joshua and Nick Holden, who both wrote and directed the film, which will have its Louisiana premiere at the Southern Screen Film Festival in on Sunday, Nov. 13, at the Acadiana Center for the Arts.

The film’s world premiere was held in October at The Austin Film Festival, where the festival held an additional third screening due to the film’s popularity with audiences.

In this witty and quirky feature shot on location in Austin last year, opposites attract, and mischief beckons when a broke, bohemian playboy actor falls for a sweet-natured, career-driven entrepreneur with a sexy identical twin sister.

Scottie Johnson (played by Josh Holden of Cal Express) is loving life until he starts dating Ebby (played by Laura Flannery of American Horror Story fame), a beautiful savvy, sweet-natured entrepreneur who tells him she can’t date another broke, struggling artist.

In an attempt to secure her love, Scottie makes a promise to take his career to the next level and starts hounding his agent Dick Nacho (played by Michael Joplin, Red vs. Blue: Reconstruction) to get him more work.

Dick reveals a top secret: the famous art-house director Moses Duvall (played by Bill Wise, Boyhood) is in town to film his new movie, and so Scottie sets his sights on landing his breakout role in Duvall’s movie.

The Southern Screen Film Festival screens The Golden Rut on Sunday, Nov. 13, at 6:15 p.m. at the Acadiana Center for the Arts, which will be the final film screened at the festival. The Official Wrap Party will follow with a special performance from the Lost Bayou Ramblers at 8 p.m. at the Blue Moon Saloon. For more information, visit www.SouthernScreen.org.