Trailer
Synopsis
Set in the rain-soaked street of Tacoma, The Closer is a dark comedy about a reputation assassin who can control men with his voice but fails miserably with women.
Leveraging his gift, he’s created a lucrative business of ruining the lives of powerful men, guilt free.
After one of his gigs backfires, his meticulously crafted world spirals into political catastrophe, broken marriages, and shocking deaths… and an unlikely chance at love.
Not everyone falls with grace, especially The Closer.
Characters
The Closer
Played by Andrew Decarlo in Proof of Concept
Ben Carter
Played by Kyle Kane in Proof of Concept
Beth Carter
Played by Ruby Robinson in Proof of Concept
Olivia Cruz
Played by Leila Collins in Proof of Concept
Marcus Cruz
Played by Ted Falagan in Proof of Concept
Meet the TEAM
Director - Joseph James Lara
Z Wave filmmaker Joseph James Lara made his first film at the age of 9, using his family’s DSLR camera and Legos. By 2022, at the age of twenty, he’d won a prestigious student Emmy Production Award for his sci-fi short, SECTOR 14 while graduating from a top-20 film school.
Raised on video games and known for his dynamic visual style, Joseph could produce and edit sophisticated action shorts before he could legally drive. Born to a family of Hispanic historians and educators, he balances out his hyperkinetic visual sense with carefully drawn portrayals of flawed, human characters, crafting tales that are eminently fresh while exploring themes as old as time.
Fond of exploring tales of corruption and abuse of power, he skillfully drives his viewers through velvet underworlds of suburban hypocrites, masked politicians and double crossing friends. Hard- working and extremely prolific, Lara represents a new filmic vision for the 21st century: an edgy directing style, lush visual filmscapes and sophisticated VFX on shoestring budgets. When he’s not making films, he’s making films.”
A look behind the camera
