LOSERS

A young woman takes her boyfriend and his mysterious new pet to meet her parents.

Worm Breath and Constance look at a large black egg, surrounded by beer bottles and Monster cans.
John (played by David Renauldi) stares off-camera.
Worm Breath and Constance (played by Aiden Williamson) chat in the doorway of John and Charlotte's house.
Worm Breath (played by Nicholas Bishop) smirks at the dinner table.
Worm Breath and Constance look downwards into a cold blue light.

written & directed by Samuel Aaberg

produced by Milton “Josh” Beal & Tanja Meyer

Credits

Camera

Director of Photography . . . Luca Fariello

First Assistant Camera . . . Lockne Li

Second Assistant Camera . . . November Hisle

Camera Assistant . . . Cathy Bowman

Sound

Sound Mixer . . . Mia Guglietta

Boom Operator . . . Nolan Scheetz

Art

Production design & creature effects by Sasha Lindsey

Set Decorator . . . Sydney Joos

Costumer . . . Katie Skillin

SFX Makeup . . . Danielle Patterson

Food Stylist . . . Luisa Freimuth

Art Hand . . . Lucca Castañeda

Production

Written & directed by Samuel Aaberg

Produced by Milton “Josh” Beal & Tanja Meyer

First Assistant Director . . . Emily Shupe

Second Assistant Director . . . Ashar Khan & Billy Caruso

Script Supervisor . . . Wyatt Knoell

BTS Photographer . . . Benjamin Sztainberg & Jackson Harkins

Production Assistant . . . Erin Conroy & Jay Lape

Cast

Constance . . . Aiden Williamson

Worm Breath . . . Nicholas Bishop

John . . . David Renauldi

Charlotte . . . Jacqueline Remus

Miller Puppeteer . . . Ben Davis

Grip & Electric

Gaffer . . . Kayla Garcia

Key Grip . . . Isaac Niccum

Best Boy Grip . . . Robert Schumacher

Grip . . . Oliver Anthony & Owen Bresnahan

Postproduction

Editor . . . Danny O’Connor

Assistant Editor . . . Judith Mary Reji

VFX Supervisor . . . Amanda May & Jake Leuck

VFX Artist . . . Sasha Lindsey & Elise Harrison

Colorist . . . Luca Fariello

DIT . . . Colin Sandee

Postproduction Sound Assistant . . . Renna Kisanuki

Sam (director) talks to Aiden (playing Constance) at the dinner table. David (playing John) can be seen in the background.
Cam team stands arm-in-arm in front of the ARRI Alexa Mini.
Aiden (playing Constance) & Nick (playing Worm Breath) hold Miller (puppet) on the porch.
Josh (producer) and Erin (P.A.) smile at the camera on the front porch.
Isaac (key grip) handles a Nanlite Pavotube on a stand.
Will (second AD) & Oliver (grip) & Colin (DIT) take a break on the front porch.
Sasha (production designer) adjusts Miller (puppet) in the arms of Nick (playing Worm Breath) while Aiden (playing Constance) looks on.
Sam (director) holds a paper plate while talking to Wyatt (script supervisor) at lunch.
Kayla (gaffer) on the camera monitor.
Flowers on the dinner table.

Behind the scenes photography courtesy of Benjamin Sztainberg & Jackson Harkins

Personal Note

LOSERS is a family drama for the chronically online. Growing up, sometimes it can feel like your parents’ world, the “adult world,” isn’t built to include you. So you make your own world: one that excludes the grown-ups back, one full of day drinking, hyperspecific language, and mutant freak baby dinosaurs. I wrote LOSERS as a teenager, and it is absolutely a teenager’s movie, but I love that about it. 

LOSERS was also a lesson in adult responsibility—the postproduction process for this movie has been unreasonably long and complicated due to the ambitious VFX involved. We’re finally finishing those up. 

Shooting this movie was maybe the most fun I’ve ever had on set; the crew was absolutely enormous and the gorgeous sunny weather allowed us to spill out of the little Chicago apartment locations into backyards and fire escapes. It felt like a big family gathering, which happily went much more smoothly than the one in the movie.