The film
Mr. Weekend is a NOIR-noir. A neo-noir set in Black Los Angeles centered around a middling bookie and how his luck changes when he finds four pounds of crystal LSD.
Crew
McKenzie Woodward -Producer/Director/Writer
McKenzie Woodward was born and raised in the southern United States. Mr. Weekend is his first feature film.
Kristin Violet - Production Designer/ Co-Producer
Kristin Violet is a Los Angeles-based Production Designer with a background in Graphic Design and Interior Architecture.
George Kamar - Co-Producer/Composer
George is an LA based immersive event and digital media producer with a background in film, events, and music who seeks to create memorable experiences and bring visions to life through storytelling. George has worked on a number of short films, digital content, and a feature projects, as well as several events and brand experiences
Evan Avtal - Cinematographer
Evan began his journey early on making short films, skits, and spec commercials with his younger brother. He started off as an actor and landed many background roles on big time studio pictures. Acting as a sponge to production and learning the ropes is what led Evan to focus more on creating content of his own. Evan used the money he earned as a Visual Effects production assistant at 20th Century Fox to buy his first cinema package. This turned into a career in Freelance Cinematography. Evan opened many doors for himself by owning top of the line production equipment and coming on set to operate for some of the biggest music video Directors in the the industry. Such as; Ben Griffin, Rage, Matt Alonzo, Andrew Sandler, Mark Klassfeld, Eif Rivera, and Taylor Randall. Not to mention great Narative Directors as well. Evan’s passion and dedication to the craft shows throughout all of his work.
CAST
Willie Wright III - Charlie Jenkins
Born in the backwoods of Acres Homes, Tx, a small community in Houston founded by black share croppers, Willie A. Wright discovered a love of cinema when he was exposed to Martial Arts films and Comedies at a very young age, Saturday morning cinema. He idolized actors like Bruce Lee, Cleavon Little, Denzel Washington and developed a deep love for comic books. He made a decision at a very early age that he had to stand with the icons he saw on the silver screen. This led to a simple decision when he was given the opportunity at 10 yrs of age to begin studying Martial arts with the Chuck Norris School of fighting. Awarded my Black Belt at 16, he then discovered Theatre arts and become a theatre major at Sam Houston State in Huntsville, Tx...a new challenge that I relished and pursued as he had his martial arts training. All this has coalesced into his career as an actor today.
Janelle Marie - Nora Fiddledown
Janelle Marie originally from Riverside, CA had a love for the arts from a very young age. Her first musical was “The King and I” in the third grade and from there she was hooked. She graduated college and then moved to LA to actively pursue her dreams. She has been featured in television shows and movies. Mr. Weekend is her first leading role in a feature film. A lot more to come from this up and coming star.
Spencer Tatum - Blake Lumbuster
A Los Angeles native with connections to Chicago, Spencer Tatum is a multi-faceted artist with talents in Acting, Street art, Music, and Dance.
Peter D Michael - Hyman Steinberg
For over 25 years, Peter D. Michael has been an established actor, voiceover artist and stand-up comedian! His extraordinary talent earned him an Emmy Award as the star of Greatest Days on The Madison Square Garden Network. Peter has also appeared on the hit television shows The Following (FOX), White Collar (USA) and With Bob & David (starring, Bob Odenkirk and David Cross), on Netflix! You can also see Peter in Michael Clarke Duncan's last movie, The Challenger which is also on Netflix!
Peter D Michael - Big Slim Fizz
Nick Thomas is an American born actor who hit the Hollywood scene late 2015 while living in Los Angeles. He gained notoriety from multiple viral internet videos such as “She’s Gonna Be Grounded for Life”. He has appeared in over 20 major artist music videos and is known for his size and intimidating tough guy look. He also performed the leading role as “Tyson” in the hit theatrical stage play “A Vow to Love”. Some of his recent credits include, “Disney Team of Heroes” and leads in various major brand commercials. Nick, who plays the role of “Big Slim Fizz” is extremely excited to join the cast and can’t wait for the world to see this great masterpiece. He currently lives in Alabama, and continues to pursue acting in Atlanta recently working with the likes of the great Tyler Perry and many more. He would like to thank all of his family and friends for the support.
Trent Culkin - Cole O’Donnell
Trent is an Actor & Model best known for his recurring guest star role in Amazon's Transparent and for Buzzfeed's short film, Going Out When You're Broke. Most recently he starred in the two episode music video series for Bishop Briggs, he starred in Zara Larrson's "Don't Worry" video, and the Twenty One Pilots "My Blood" music video he starred in was just nominated for "Best Rock Video" for MTV's VMA's. Next he'll be seen playing opposite 90's televisions icons Danny Tamberelli and Lori Beth Denberg in his lead role on a currently untitled 7 episode comedic mini-series, and of course "Cole" in Mr. Weekend.
E.R. Ruiz - Jake D Morrow
E.R. Ruiz was born Eddy Ramon Jr. Born in raised in Los Angeles. E.R. is a Hip-Hop artist / actor / burn Survivor. Credits include the widely popular FX show Sons of Anarchy (2008-2011). He appeared in The Bad Batch by Ana Lily Amirpour (2016) "American Sniper" (2015) "This Is Us" (2018) & the upcoming film “Worth” (2020) starring Michael Keaton, directed by Sara Colangelo. Ruiz sustained severe burns at the age of 9 while asleep from a house fire.
Lee Coc - Diego Cervan
Lee Coc is an actor and composer, known for The Mule (2018), Future World (2018) and Blood Heist (2017).