“Trophy Kids” premieres at 31st Annual Breckenridge Festival of Film

"Trophy Kids" the debut feature film of YaSu Media’s 

Director/Co-Writer Josh Sugarman and Producer/Co-Writer Brandon Yankowitz, 

premieres in Breckenridge, Colorado at the 

31^st Breckenridge Festival of Film Saturday, June 11, 2011.

Los Angeles, CA – Tapped by Brent Simon, President of the Los Angeles Film Critics Society, and film critic for Shockya.com and RottenTomatoes.com as “original, striving and kind of darkly playful, a combination of qualities sorely lacking in American independent cinema at the moment,” “Trophy Kids” will premiere in Colorado at the 31^st Breckenridge Festival of Film Saturday, June 11, 2011.  The filmmakers and stars, Ryan Eggold (90210) and David Gallagher (Super 8, 7th Heaven) will be present for a Q&A following the screening.

 

Joshua Estrin, National Pop Culture Examiner.com further discusses “Trophy Kids”, in the National Examiner, “Every now and again, a movie appears on the scene which seems to bring together the forces of nature in the name of cinematic brilliance. One that challenges Pop Culture and rises from the primordial ooze of the mainstream to transport audiences and raise important questions about societal norms, mores and who exactly will be leading us into the future. Enter Trophy Kids the masterful "brain-drain" of Josh Sugarman and Brandon Yankowitz."   

“Trophy Kids” echoes the generational nuances of "The Social Network", while on a broader scale is a dynamic introspective on a generation also known as the 'Millennial's' or ‘Generation Y’; children who grew up receiving trophies and other praise for participating and not necessarily winning. 

“Trophy Kids”

Aimless, twenty-something Manhattan playboy Max is special...or so he’s always been told.  Told by his parents.  By his teachers.  By Mister Rogers.  And special people have a responsibility, he knows -  to gift the story of their remarkable, party-boy lives to the huddled, dirty, virgin masses.  To inspire them!  On the big screen!  A New York biopic about his Sexy party-boy existence, yes!  Maybe Max will direct!  All and all, it’s Max’s new life-long dream exclamation point.

Enter the seductive, plotting Quinn (quite the special old money heiress/Brooklyn hipster wannabe) and her new, self-destructive writer friend Reid (also quite special).  Together, the young pair can assuredly take the head-in-the-clouds Max for all he’s worth.  Special young people can do things like that.  They can.  Just watch.  It’s great.  Broke and without a place to live, Reid settles into Max’s luxury apartment and starts to write the Greatest Story Ever Told.  Just as long as he doesn’t have to talk to its subject.

But, as Reid begins to learn, perhaps there’s more to Max than first meets the eye.  Perhaps Max is a Superhero.  Or a Vampire/Civil War veteran.  That possible in movies.  And, so, as Max and Reid struggle to complete the dubious task before them, simultaneously pursue Quinn and get a handle on their misdirected, some might say delusional, lives, they reveal the comedic, tragic fate of Generation Y - a generation taught to believe each was incomparably special and messianically gifted; a generation so blinded by their own self-idolation that the lines between fantasy and reality might not always be so clear.

They say there are only 7 types of stories in the world.  

Trophy Kids is number 8.  

It’s totally special.

Tickets are available online, at http://www.breckfilmfest.com/home/ticketinfo.php

“Trophy Kids” is represented by Steven Beer, Greenberg Traurig; US Sales Agent Glen Reynolds, Circus Road Films and publicity firm, Popular Press Media Group (PPMG).

For more: http://www.AreYouATrophyKid.com

Contact: for all media related inquiries, please contact Popular Press Media Group (PPMG), media@ppmg.info, +1-310-860-7774.

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About the filmmakers:

Director/Writer Josh Sugarman | @JB_Sugarman

First-time feature director and screenwriter Josh Sugarman, 26, began writing for the screen while working as a young political staffer in Massachusetts.  It wasn't until years later, when he was half-way through his law school tenure that he began focusing on a life in film, cross-enrolling in Columbia University's film school, and later foregoing a legal career to co-found YaSu Media and co-write and direct TROPHY KIDS.  A film the young company developed and financed with dozens of first-time investors and created with a diverse group of other Gen-Y'ers.  Prior to TROPHY KIDS, Sugarman wrote and produced a 24-minute short film THE BANKER AND THE BASEBALL and wrote and directed two widely distributed online shorts for the non-profit TruthThroughAction.org.  Recently, he's combined his legal education and passion for film as a volunteer with the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts.  He's a 2005 graduate of Brandeis University (BA, Politics) and a 2008 graduate of Columbia University's School of Law (J.D.) where he studied film and entertainment law.  Sugarman currently lives in New York.

Producer/Co-Writer Brandon Yankowitz | @Byankowitz

Born and raised in New York, Brandon is a graduate of Brandeis University (B.A. Politics) and of New York Law School (J.D.).  Brandon is a former model and a licensed attorney.  He is a member of the New York and New Jersey State Bars.  Brandon is the Co-Founder and Partner at the production company: YaSu Media, LLC, which develops and produces feature length and short format film content for traditional and new media distribution. His first series of films, made for the progressive organization TruthThroughAction.org (which he Co-Founded and acts as the Director of Production), caused quite the controversy. Conservative pundits like Bill O'Reilly and Michelle Malkin lambasted the films, while the likes of ABC News and the Huffington Post applauded their visual appeal and bold statements.  His first full-length feature film TROPHY KIDS, starring Ryan Eggold, David Gallagher and Tahyna Tozzi, tells the story of three self-obsessed, Gen-Y twenty-somethings unable to tell where reality ends and fantasy begins.  Brandon co-wrote the screenplay and produced the film.  He stayed true to his hometown, filming TROPHY KIDS in New York City.
 

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