Country: USA
Year: 2025
Duration: 116'
Part-time sex worker, full-time chaos magnet, AP is convinced that the universe has it out for her… and she might be right. She seeks a cosmic reset after a tarot reader floating in a swamp tells her she needs $1,000 and a sacrificial lamb to lift her curse. Armed with neither, she meets up with her long-lost kindred spirit Danni, and together the two moped off on a bizarre quest through Trashtown USA – a dystopian, neon-drenched sprawl of strip clubs and urban decay, stocked with a series of assorted oddballs, Tom of Finland cops, and some all-too-familiar type clients. Fucktoys is rude, crude, unhinged, girlypop middle finger to filmic convention, and a comedic calling card for anyone who finds themself asking the question: am I cursed?
Biography
film director
Annapurna Sriram
(Usa) She grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, where her early artistic sensibility was shaped by the unchaperoned movie rentals at her local library. Despite a rebellious youth and time in reform school, she earned her BFA in Acting from Rutgers’ Mason Gross School of the Arts. She has worked extensively in New York across theater, film, and television, including Jesse Eisenberg’s The Spoils, Wallace Shawn’s Evening at the Talkhouse, and appearances in I Think You Should Leave and Billions. Fucktoys is her directorial debut.
FILMOGRAFIA
Fucktoys (lm, 2025).
Declaration
film director
“I wrote Fucktoys in the spring of 2017, after a sequence of strange events. Some of the initial impetus came from years of struggling as a conservatory-trained actor in New York. I myself was waiting for the opportunity to play the sentimental slut in a campy cult film—something I had always dreamed of, but that role never arrived. As a mixed race actor, it was difficult for me to carve out a career beyond the trending racial stereotypes and tropes that were pervasive in film and television at the time. I realized, in order for me to explore this role I was so drawn to, I was going to have to create the opportunity instead of waiting for someone else to do it.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENWRITER: Annapurna Sriram. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Cory Fraiman-Lott. EDITING: Lilly Wild, Grason Caldwell. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Nichole McMinn. MUSIC: Jake Orrall. SOUND: Nathan Ruyle. CAST: Annapurna Sriram, Sadie Scott, Francois Arnaud, Big Freedia, Brandon Flynn, Damian Young. PRODUCTION: Timothy Petryni for Trashtown Pictures. COPRODUCTION: Atypical Day.
CONTACT: Trashtown Pictures tim@trashtown.pictures
