To find the truth, he enters a life that is not his own.
Lost in Gray · Jack Plotnick, Haley Webb, Jesse Luken, Blake Sheldon, Robert Miano
Andrea’s roles
Director · Co-writer · Producer
Film
Short · 2014
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Identity becomes a dangerous disguise.
Joel, a Jewish man searching for answers about his wife’s murder, infiltrates a neo-Nazi group. The investigation draws him into a world where the identity he performs begins to shape his behavior.
Lost in Gray places a personal search inside a hostile social landscape. Andrea’s interest in morally complex characters finds expression in a drama-thriller about identity, belonging, and the cost of inhabiting another world.
The cast includes Jack Plotnick, Haley Webb, Jesse Luken, Blake Sheldon, and Robert Miano.
Plotnick’s work includes Gods and Monsters and Wrong; Webb is known for Teen Wolf and The Final Destination; Luken’s credits include Justified and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Their range gives the film a meeting point between independent cinema and established American screen talent.
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A production with an international horizon.
The film’s producing team includes associate producer Sacha Ben Harroche, later an Academy Award nominee for Best Picture as a producer of Sound of Metal.
For Andrea, Lost in Gray brought writing, directing, and producing into a US production, building on the visual and narrative experimentation of his earlier Italian work. The short also grew from a feature-length story developed for the screen.