Carlos Pedraza

writer, director
Feature Film

Judas Kiss

  • written and directed by Carlos Pedraza
  • (Phoenix International Film Festival, 1 April 2011)

Filmmaker Zachary Wells (née Danny Reyes) totally flopped when he dropped out of the first year of film school to head to Hollywood after winning a college festival award. Years later, he reluctantly returns to the college to be a festival judge, but somehow after making love to a student, he finds that the student is his very own younger self entered in the very same contest—only now he’s the judge. Hard to tell whether he’s in the past or his younger self is in the future, but the question either way is whether he’ll he let himself win, causing him to head down the same failed path as the first time. —Michael Main
Wise Father Figure: Danny Reyes went to school here fifteen years ago.
Zach: That was me.
W.F.F.: Huh! What happened to him?
Richard Harmon (as Danny Reyes) and Charlie David (as older Danny) face each
                other with young Danny refusing to make eye contact.
  • Fantasy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel