Film Premiere: Our Hero, Balthazar

OUR HERO, BALTHAZAR is a seriously dark comedy about the internet, gun culture, school
shootings, masculinity and class in America. More specifically, it’s about a wealthy teenager
from New York City who tries to impress his activist crush by traveling to Texas and befriending
a would-be school shooter.

Critics and audiences have compared the film to Taxi Driver, Eddington, and Nightcrawler, with
the Wall Street Journal saying it has an “ending worthy of a Martin Scorsese Picture,” and
Stephen King saying it “reminds [him] of Mean Streets.”

OUR HERO, BALTHAZAR has been a true grassroots effort. With zero paid media spend, the
film opened at #1 at the specialty box office (not including buyouts), and its social campaign has grown into the third most-followed indie film campaign in history, led by the viral in character account @bboymalone212, which has amassed over 95K followers on Instagram.

The Cut Op Ed piece
The Wall Street Journal
Deadline — Feature review
IndieWire — Feature interview
Variety — Feature review from Tribeca
This is a film that begs to be seen in theaters, with a live audience.
“…a screw-loose buddy movie for our time”- Owen Gleiberman

“alternately disturbing and
brutally funny”
– Frank Scheck

“a scathing look at America”
– Frank J. Avella