Lone Rider Film Trailer/Jack Alcott in Lone Rider
By Zak Wojnar
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"Lone Rider," directed and co-written by Adam Jumba and starring Jack Alcott, is making its debut as part of the Dances with Films festival in Los Angeles on June 28. The film is a labor of love and the culmination of a friendship between the two young men, who first started working together as film school students. In the years between then and now, both Jumba and Alcott have developed healthy careers, with Jumba directing short films and music videos, and Alcott earning acclaim for his role as Harrison Morgan, son of beloved serial killer Dexter Morgan, in Showtime's "Dexter: New Blood" and "Dexter: Resurrection."
The film follows a young Pennsylvania man going through something of a 'quarter-life crisis.' Alcott plays Tyler, who feels like he's at the end of his rope, waiting for life to happen to him as he gets older and more disillusioned by the lack of human connection under all the 21st century, to say nothing of that universal anxiety of being an outcast within one's own family. At a certain point, he realizes that he can't wait any longer. He has to break free from himself, and to do that, he steals his dad's '89 Mustang and goes on a quest to tie off the loose ends of his life. He might not get the answers he wants, but he has to get closure before he can truly move forward with the next phase of his journey.
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"Lone Rider" is like a Bruce Springsteen song come to life, a deeply intimate look at Millennial loneliness and the courage it takes to break out of the emotional walls we build around ourselves.
I had the opportunity to chat with Adam Jumba and Jack Alcott about their relationship and their work on "Lone Rider." They share stories from the production (including hunting for the perfect '89 Mustang), reflect on the early days of their friendship and the first student films they made together, and Jumba talks about returning home to shoot a movie at all his old familiar haunts. Their chemistry is on full display during our chat, and that chemistry extends to the film itself. Alcott is a natural muse for Jumba, and if they choose to work together again in the future, there's no limit to the emotional depths they can explore via cinematic collaboration.
Check out our complete chat below. If you're in the greater Los Angeles area, you can buy tickets to the film's June 28 Dances with Films screening here.
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