The titular sufferer in indie drama Fear, Love, and Agoraphobia, currently in post-production, is male. The character of Chet is played by Dustin Coffey, and as he recently explained in his California hometown newspaper the Ventura County Star, the subject matter hits close to home:
As a teenager, I suffered from severe anxiety disorders and depression, so this is a passion project for me. This is a micro-budget Screen Actors Guild feature and has been completely shot and edited.
This is a grassroots project about an important subject by a local actor-filmmaker... Our goal is to make agoraphobia better understood through our film.
The project fell well short of its Indiegogo December goal of $22,000 in post-production funds, raising just 10%. But the film will no doubt be completed and has an additional calling card in the form of Coffey's co-star.
Lori Petty, who plays a homeless Marine who becomes intertwined with Coffey's character, is known these days as Lolly Whitehill on Orange Is The New Black and has a long list of film credits including the original Point Break, Free Willy, Cadillac Man and A League of Their Own. Her presence should definitely boost the fortunes of the movie going forward.
Coffey, who is also a producer on the project, has previously studied with writer-director Alex D'Lerma. The making of the film was framed, for the Ventura native, by some tough personal circumstances:
Right before the film I lost my grandmother who I was very close with and right after the film my agent for five years died tragically. It has been a very emotionally charged year.
Two other films last year featured agoraphobic strands: Big Sky with Kyra Sedgwick and Bella Thorne, and horror film Agoraphobia, starring Cassandra Czerbo.
[Fear, Love, and Agoraphobia]
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