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LOGLINE

Looking for a few days of vacation and amusement, two best friends pretend to be

lovers while attending a couple’s weekend workshop.

SYNOPSIS

Kat and Samantha have been best friends for years. When Samantha convinces a

reluctant Kat to take advantage of a couple's weekend retreat by pretending to be

lovers, they're hoping for some time by the pool and maybe a few good stories. How

hard could it be? Instead, they find themselves immersed in an intensive workshop

with real couples who are fighting to save their relationships. As the "Closer to

Closeness" weekend progresses, Kat and Samantha are made to face their own

shortcomings and, by default, begin to believe their own cover story. When the lines of

friendship begin to blur, they are faced with asking themselves: could it actually be

there is something there or has this weekend just worked a Jedi mind trick on them?

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THE FILMMAKERS

Andrew Putschoegl - Director A native of Oakdale, Minnesota, Andrew discovered his passion for filmmaking from an

early age, taking classes at the local public access station and often spending countless hours making

videos for his high school courses in lieu of short papers or reports. At the age of 16, Andrew

reached out to the Minnesota Film Board and convinced two feature films that were being made

locally to let him intern for them during production. He worked on Kevin Smith's Mallrats, and D3:

The Mighty Ducks before he even had his driver's license (much to his parents' chagrin).

During the summer between his junior and senior year of high school he attended the

prestigious USC Summer Production Workshop, managing to get kicked off the Universal Studios

lot after attempting to sneak into Dreamworks for a peek. While still in college, Andrew worked as

the assistant to the director on the New Line Cinema feature film Sugar & Spice, juggling his college

courses and a full-time production and post-production schedule.

Since graduating with a degree in film production from Chapman University, Andrew has

worked as a director, editor and producer on various award-winning features, shorts, and

commercials.

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Andrew Huebscher - Director of Photography A graduate of the USC film school, Andrew Huebscher has lensed dozens of features and shorts,

including the upcoming horror-thriller The Taking for Bryan Singer’s Bad Hat Harry, the sci-fi

thriller Channeling for director Drew Thomas, punk rock biopic What We Do Is Secret starring

Shane West and Bijiou Philips, the epic western Shadowheart starring Angus Macfadyen, the cult

thriller Believers from director Daniel Myrick, and Last Will starring Tatum O’Neal and Tom

Berenger. His films have been widely screened at festivals including Austin, Bahamas, Cleveland,

Crested Butte, Dances With Films, Great Lakes, HBO Black American, Jackson Hole, Jamaican,

L.A., London Int’l Horror, Malibu, Method Fest, Nashville,

Newport Beach, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Prism, RiverRun, Santa

Monica, Slamdance, Stony Brook, Sundance, Tel-Aviv,

Tribeca, and WorldFest Houston. He received the American

Society of Cinematographers’ Heritage Award for his short

form work. Huebscher’s commercial work is on display at

MoMA’s AICP collection in NYC. Episodic credits includes

Comedy Central’s TOSH.0, Vin Diesel’s The Ropes for FOX

Digital, and documentary content for Aljazeera America.

Paul Buckley – Composer Buckley earned his BA in Media Studies from Pomona College in

1992, and quickly found a musical home in the studios of now-retired Seinfeld

composer Jonathan Wolff. Over the ensuing eight years, Buckley scored

dozens of television comedies, including NBC’s hit Will & Grace and FOX’s

critically acclaimed Action, before leaving in 2001.

Buckley eventually settled in Downtown Los Angeles, opening a new

studio in a historic warehouse in the North Industrial District to accommodate a

broadening scope of musical assignments. These have included feature films

Happily N’ever After, Happily N’ever After 2 from Lionsgate, animated series

Out Of Jimmy’s Head, Spaceballs: The Animated Series and a steady stream of

prime time TV comedies (Oliver Beene, 2 Broke Girls).

Buckley is currently scoring Nickelodeon’s Wallykazam, an animated curricular comedy for

preschoolers, after having completed a number of songwriting assignments for the show, including

its theme song, Say The Word. Also in the works is an opera, Dead Horses, with librettist Douglas

Kearney (Crescent City,” directed by Yuval Sharon).

Corey Ziemniak - Editor Corey is descended from dragons and was born to rain fire on horrible

movies.

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TARA KARSIAN

Writer/Producer/Actress (Kat) Tara’s film roles include: Sassy Pants, Terri (2011 Sundance Premiere),

Number 23, Envy, Ready? O.K., and Single White Female. And the

award-winning short film Hello Caller. She is an acting member and

Associate Artistic Director of the award-winning Los Angeles based

Echo Theater Company and an Ovation nominated producer for the

Echo’s production of Everything Will Be Different.

Tara has guest starred on over 40 television shows such as;

Shameless, The Exes, In Plain Sight, Prison Break, The Mentalist,

Entourage, Saving Grace, The New Adventures Of Old Christine, Bones,

Lovespring International, Without A Trace, C.S.I., Desperate

Housewives, Malcolm In The Middle, Six Feet Under, NYPD Blue,

Everybody Loves Raymond among countless others. For the last 4 years

of E.R., she played the hospital’s social worker, Liz Dade. Starting in

February 2014, she can be seen on the new Comedy Central show

Review starring Andy Daly.

ANDREA GRANO

Writer/Producer/Actress (Sam) Andrea Grano most recently worked opposite David Strathairn in the

upcoming independent feature No God, No Master, for which she was

nominated for Best Actress at the St Tropez Int’l Film Festival, and

Best Supporting Actress at The Madrid Int’l Film Festival. Other film

credits include Scottville, Homecoming (a film starring Josh Hamilton

and Joseph Cross which she also co-produced), Outside Sales, Primo,

Knuckle Sandwich, and Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes. Her television credits include guest starring roles on Intelligence,

Castle, Brothers and Sisters, Law and Order: LA, October Road,

InJustice, and The District, as well as recurring roles on Fox's 24, The

Young and the Restless, and David Kelly's Girl's Club. She is a

member of Los Angeles based The Echo Theater Company, where she

has performed in numerous plays including the world premiere of

David Ives' The Other Woman, as well at Kate Robin's ANON. In

2010, she starred Off-Broadway in the world premiere of White's Lies

opposite Betty Buckley, before returning to Los Angeles where she appeared in God's Ear (Echo

Theater Company, 2012). She is CFO and co-founder of Sneaky Pete Productions, LLC, and is an

Executive Producer on The Winning Season (With Sam Rockwell and Emma Roberts) and Wilde

Salome (with Al Pacino and Jessica Chastain).

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FILMMAKERS STATEMENT

From “KAT” (Tara Karsian) and “SAMANTHA” (Andrea Grano)

Writers, Producers, Co-Stars

“The idea for BFFs came directly from our relationship as friends,” says writer and co-star

Tara Karsian (“Kat”). “Andrea and I banter back and forth a lot like a couple and this often ends in

Andrea telling me that we need to go to couples therapy. We know couples who have gone to

whacky and humiliating therapy weekends only to go right back to the way they were beforehand, so

we aren’t convinced they work.”

“We were talking about one of those weekends,” says writer and co-star Andrea Grano

(“Samantha”). “I joked with Tara and suggested we sign up for one just to have some great stories to

tell. Tara thought I would get so caught up in it all that I’d end up believing everything they

preached. We went back and forth joking and plotting out how the scenario would unfold if we went

pretending to be a couple. Then we thought ‘What if we started believing we were actually in love

with each other?’ That’s when it dawned on us. This was a great idea for a script!”

The two set out to write BFFs as a short film. But once they got going, they realized the story

needed to be a full feature. In three short months, the script was ready to send out to a few trusted

friends in the business. “The response was overwhelmingly positive and we started to think about

who we could sell the script to,” they said. “But the more we thought about it, the more we realized

we had just created the perfect vehicle for us as actors. We had basically written our friendship (with

a twist) on the page. BFFs would only work if the chemistry was right between the two leads, and

that was something we already had!”

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Luckily, the two were naïve enough in the producing world to believe that if they just decided

to do it, it would happen – an “if you build it they will come” approach. So pre-production began and

they found themselves simultaneously raising money, finding a director, putting together a crew, and

finding locations. The entire process took them about five months. First, they interviewed a few

directors. They ultimately went with Andrew Putschoegl, who had directed Tara in the award

winning short “Hello, Caller.” Andy had the talent and understanding of the script, and they felt he

would be a team player, which they knew they’d need on a low budget project. Four “angel

investors” would invest the majority of the budget, and the rest came from crowd-funding.

Ultimately they fell short of their goal, but the combined amount between donations and investments

came to exactly the initial number they had started with.

Casting director Greg Orson would be brought on next. During Greg’s first job as an

assistant in casting, he called Tara in to read for what would be her first job as an actress. The two

remained friends, and in a “full circle” moment, he agreed to cast BFFs. Sigrid Thornton became

attached to the film earlier when her manager suggested her for the first read-through of the script

and the three fell in love. Breakdowns went out for the rest of the roles, and they were overwhelmed

by the response, particularly for a low budget film. “It was eye opening to be on the other side of the

casting process,” they remember. “Having to narrow down hundreds of submissions to about 10-15

actors per role, seeing some incredibly talented actors who just weren’t quite right for the role, and

most humbling, having award winning actors come in to read for our film, and the heartbreak of not

being able to cast some of them are just a few things we weren’t quite ready for.”

In the end, it all came together. Filming lasted 15 days and came in just under budget. “We

were both surprised and relieved when we watched the first cut,” said Tara and Andrea. “We

couldn’t believe how much we truly liked it after having written, produced, and acted in it. We were

relieved that it still could make us laugh, and very relieved that our friendship showed up on screen,

and survived the process.”

“When people watch the film, it’s almost like a litmus test of how they view love,” they add.

“For half of the audience, the film is about love having many forms, and how sometimes the only

obstacles to finding love are our own issues. The other half believe that once we drive away, we’ll

just occasionally talk about ‘that crazy weekend when…’ For them, the movie is about how the

atmosphere we’re in can influence what we believe we feel. The irony is, we never talked about

what we believe happens when we drive away until after we finished writing the film. Like true

BFFs, we both agreed.”

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THE CAST

Sigrid Thornton – Jacqueline An icon of the Australian screen, Sigrid Thornton has starred in

many of the films now regarded as classics of the Australian

cinema. They include George Miller's box office hit The Man

From Snowy River (Fox Classics), The Lighthorsemen (RKO),

directed by Simon Wincer, Slate Wyn and Me (Hemdale) and

The Man From Snowy River 11 (Disney – Touchstone). Other

film credits include the cult hit interactive comedy, Seven Days

Later and several acclaimed independent films including The

Telegram Man (BAFTA LA winner) and Michael Rymer’s

multi award winning Face To Face, winner of 19 awards

including Santa Barbara Film Festival’s Panavision Spirit

Award. Sigrid’s latest film, BFFs, is currently in competition at

the Santa Barbara Film Festival.

Television career highlights include the Australian landmark series Seachange for ABC TV,

The Boy In The Bush for UK’s Channel 4 opposite Kenneth Brannagh and BBC - ABC Co Pro The

Far Country opposite Micheal York. Sigrid’s miniseries 1915 for BBC - ABC was followed by

HBO’s highly acclaimed All The Rivers Run and Paradise / Guns Of Paradise for CBS in the US.

Ratings winner Little Oberon and Nine’s smash hit Underbelly – The Golden Mile continue to

consolidate her unique position in the Australian film and television landscape.

Sigrid has acted as MC for Australian appearances by Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama

and was MC for the Centenary of Federation joint sittings of the Australian Parliament. In 2003

Sigrid was honoured as one of the top 100 Australian Entertainers of the century by the Variety Club.

She has also received multiple awards, nominations and honours and for her work in front of and

behind the cameras as well as onstage. More recent awards include Best Actress for the sell out

Australian tour of The Blue Room Sigrid toured nationally with Oscar winner Brenda Blethyn in

Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads. Her last stage performance as Desiree in Sondheim’s A Little Night

Music at the Sydney Opera House garnered rave reviews. In March and April 2014 Sigrid will star as

Blanche Du Bois in Black Swan’s landmark production of A Streetcar Named Desire at the Heath

Ledger Theatre in Perth.

Larisa Oleynik – Chloe Larisa Oleynik began her professional acting career at the age of eight in a

San Francisco production of Les Miserables. She went on to star in the

popular Nickelodeon show The Secret World of Alex Mack and then in

(your favorite) teen movie 10 Things I Hate About You. She is nostalgic

for the 90s and flannel, too.

Since graduating from Sarah Lawrence College in ’04, Ms. Oleynik has

been steadily building up her resume with TV guest appearances and

independent films. Recent favorites include multi – episode arcs on

Hawaii 5-0 and Pretty Little Liars, and a recurring gig on Mad Men as Mrs.

Ken Cosgrove. Larisa is grateful for the privilege to work as an actor and

is thrilled to be a part of BFFs with the rest of these funny humans.

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Pat Carroll – Joan In film, Pat Caroll is best known as the voice of one of the

greatest film villains of all time- Ursula in Disney’s The Little

Mermaid. She later played Ursula’s sister “Morgana” in The Little

Mermaid II. Other film credits include Songcatcher, Freedom Writers,

and Nancy Drew.

In her 63 years in the theatrical profession, she has worked

steadily on stage as well as in television and film. A celebrated actress

in all mediums, she has been nominated for a TONY (1955‘s Catch a

Star); won an EMMY (1956’s Caesar’s Hour); won a GRAMMY,

Outer Critic Circle Award, AND a Drama Desk Award (for her much

lauded one-woman show Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude

Stein); and been nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award (AMC’s mini-

series, The Royale).

She began her television career on The Red Buttons Show. In addition to her Emmy award

winning work on Caesar’s Hour, she was also a series regular on The Danny Thomas Show, Busting

Loose, The Bobby Sherman Show, The Ted Knight Show, and She’s the Sheriff. Her most notable

guest star credits include The Carol Burnett Show, The Red Skelton Show, The Danny Kaye Show,

and her portrayal of Prunella in Cinderella (which ran consecutively on CBS for ten years). She was

also known for her work on such dramatic shows as Kraft Theater, Producer’s Showcase, and G.E.

Theater and also became known as the “dowager queen” of talk and game shows.

In 1979, Ms. Carroll starred in her first one-woman show (the multi-award winning Gertrude

Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein). She later received three HELEN HAYES AWARDS (as the

nurse in The Shakespeare Theatre’s Romeo and Juliet, as Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor,

and for her heralded portrayal of the title character in Brecht’s Mother Courage). In 1992, she starred

in The Show-Off at The Roundabout Theatre on Broadway, and later returned to Broadway between

1998-1999 in Sophocles’ Electra. She played over 200 roles on stage before even making her

Broadway Debut.

Sean Maher – JK Sean Maher is well known to television and film audiences for his

role as Dr. Simon Tam in Joss Whedon's feature Serenity – the film

that was based on the critically acclaimed series Firefly. Maher was

born and raised in New York where he attended the Tisch School of

the Arts at NYU. During his dramatic studies, he trained at the

Experimental Theatre Wing and Playwright's Horizons, as well as

abroad in London. He moved to Los Angeles after landing the

coveted title role in the FOX drama Ryan Caufield: Year One.

Additional credits include The Mentalist, Human Target, and

Warehouse 13. Sean can be seen this year recurring as ‘Mark Scheffer’ (aka

‘Shrapnel’) on the hit series Arrow for The CW. Other recent credits

include NBC's provocative series The Playboy Club and the Lionsgate

/ Joss Whedon feature film Much Ado About Nothing. Maher is a yoga

enthusiast and LGBT advocate. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his partner and their two

children.

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Richard Moll – Ken Legendary film and television icon Richard Moll is best known

for his memorable portrayal of the wacky sidekick, “Bull”, the bailiff,

on the long-running NBC sitcom Night Court. His prolific body of

film work ranges from comedy to drama to horror to science fiction to

children’s stories, and includes such classics as Scary Movie 2, Jingle

All The Way, Liar’s Moon, Lake Effects, Sorority Party Massacre, and

he starred as the tortured murderer “Darnell Finch” in the campy TV

Horror Movie Ghost Shark. Richard also created the spine-tingling,

evil “Kolchak Jefferson Stillwall” in the horror film Headless

Horseman.

Richard TV roles include guest appearances on shows such as

Anger Management, Cold Case, Smallville and Justice League

Unlimited and 100 Deeds For Eddie Mcdowd. He had recurring roles

on The Incredible Hulk, Dr Quinn: Medicine Woman, Dukes Of

Hazard and he provided the voice of “Two-Face” on the animated Batman TV Series and reprised

the role recently on Batman: The Brave And The Bold. He also voiced “Scorpion” on Spiderman and

“Norman” on Mighty Max. Richard credits his powerful presence as an actor to his extensive

experience performing Shakespeare. He also toured the US in a role that is now called “the

definitive Abe Lincoln” in the historical drama The Lincoln-Douglas Debates.

A passionate environmentalist, Richard has testified before the Senate Subcommittee on the

Environment. He has also been active in the fight to find a cure for Alzheimer’s Disease and has

testified before the House Subcommittee on Aging. He is now happy to live high in the mountains in

Southern California.However, Richard Moll’s favorite role of all time remains his role as Dad to his

two wonderful kids, Chloe and Mason.

Russell Sams – Jonah A native East Tennessean, Russel has always found joy in the art

of story telling through acting. After a two year stint at the University of

Tennessee, he moved to LA. Within six months of arriving in L.A., Mr.

Sams did his first movie, What Matters Most in Vega, Texas directed by

the late Jane Cusamano. Since then, Mr. Sams has appeared in thirteen

television shows, one in which his portrayal of a schizophrenic helped win

the Vision Award.

Along with his TV appearances, Sams has acted in nearly thirty

short films and ten features including The Rules of Attraction, where he

received acclaim from the New York Times as a “tour de force”. He has

played a serial killer opposite of Richard Gere and Claire Daines, as well

as an arsonist opposite of Jennifer Love Hewitt.

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Jenny O’Hara – Suzie Jenny’s film credits Sassy Pants, Heavy

Lifting, Devil (M.Night Shyamalan), Mystic River

(Clint Eastwood), Matchstick Men (Ridley Scott),

Extract, Forty Shades of Blue, Two Weeks, Jonathan

Toomey, How to Make Love to a Woman and

Heartbeat.

Her TV credits are extensive, covering a wide

spectrum, including TV movies and series regular

roles, as well as recurring characters in The King of

Queens and Big Love, and guest appearances in

Rizzoli and Isles, The Closer, NCIS, CSI, House, Nip/Tuck, Six Feet Under, Reba, among numerous

others.

Jenny has appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in Los Angeles, and Regionally. On

Broadway she starred in The Fig Leaves are Falling and Promises, Promises, as well as appearing in

The Odd Couple (the female version) as Sylvie and Olive, The Kid, and The Iceman Cometh, after

making her debut opposite Alec Guiness in Dylan. Her most recent Off-Broadway appearance was in

Luck of the Irish written by Kirsten Greenidge, directed by Rebecca Taichman at the Claire Tow

Theatre, Lincoln Center. Regionally she starred in the award winning Bakersfield Mist (LA Weekly

Nomination), written and directed by Stephen Sachs at the Fountain Theatre, in Love, Loss and What

I Wore at the Geffen, in Amy Hertzog’s 40000 Miles, and in Richard Greenberg’s Our Mother’s

Brief Affair (LA Drama Critics Circle nomination) at South Coast Rep. She also starred in the Lisa

James directed Little Egypt (Dramalogue Award) at the Met, the Matrix and in NY. Additional

credits include A Skull in Connemara by Martin McDonagh (LA Weekly and LA Drama Critics

nominations) at Theatre Tribe, The Body of Bourne at the Mark Taper, Allan Miller’s The Fox

(Dramalogue Award) at the Back Alley, the Las Palmas and The Roundabout in NY, and Athol

Fugard’s Hello and Goodbye at Yale Rep.

Jenny is a member of the Matrix and Theatre Tribe companies and of The Ensemble Studio

Theatre in NY and LA. As a director, some of her favorite recent work includes The Glass

Menagerie at the Cherry County Playhouse with Rita Moreno, and Carol Real's We Used to be Fun

and Doesn't Anybody Know What a Pancreas Is? at Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA, and Tom Baum's

Shock Therapy at the Lillian Theatre with Gregg Henry.

Molly Hagan – Rebecca Molly Hagan is an acting veteran who has had the

privilege of working with some of the most

talented directors in Hollywood such as John Rich,

Blake Edwards, Alexander Payne, Neil Abramson,

Neil Burger, Kevin Smith and Joe Johnston.

Highlights in movies are: Some kind of Wonderful,

Ringmaster, Election and The Lucky Ones. In TV

her favorites are: The Nutt House, Herman's Head,

Unfabulous and Chaos. Last year brought a slew

of terrific indies her way. Watch out for

Undiscovered Gyrl, The Last Light, and of course

BFFs

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Jeffrey Vincent Parise – Scott An award winning chameleon actor of film, television and stage, Parise is

known for his range and versatility.

In film he has worked on three occasions with legendary filmmaker

Wim Wenders, including Don’t Come Knocking, written by and starring

Sam Sheppard. He has starred in numerous independent films playing

enigmatic and eccentric characters. For his portrayal in Callback; the

Unmaking of Bloodstain, Parise took home 3 “Best Actor” awards from

various festivals.

In the film Sweet Talk, Parise stars opposite Natalie Zea as a

struggling writer with an extremely active imagination and propensity for

storytelling. Sweet Talk was written by the award winning playwright and

novelist Peter Lefcourt and is currently available on iTunes & VOD.

He has appeared as a wide variety of different characters on top television shows such as CSI,

Party Down, Castle, Jericho as well as CSI: NY, in which he appeared as 2 different characters, 5

years apart, and can currently be seen on General Hospital as Carlos Rivera.

Dan Gauthier – David Dan was born in Prineville, Oregon and raised just 26 miles down the road in

the farming town of Madras. An avid outdoorsman and all star athlete, Dan

was signed by Ford modeling agency in New York City while participating in

a contest for Gillette while attending San Diego State University on a Track

scholarship. He moved to Los Angeles to become a full time actor and within

a few months started working in commercials and television guest

appearances. His first big break came when he was cast as Lt. Johnny McKay

on the critically acclaimed CBS show, Tour Of Duty. This gave him the

momentum to eventually be cast in over a dozen television pilots and

numerous guest appearances on shows such as Friends, Will and Grace,

Melrose Place, Beverly Hills 90210 and Star Trek: The Next Generation, Lost,

The New Adventures of Old Christine and Hot in Cleveland, just to name a few. He has also been in

many feature films but Teen Witch and The Son-In-Law are what he is most recognized for. He is

probably best known for portraying Kevin Buchanan on One life to Live. In 2008 he made his

directorial debut with a short film “The Art of Getting Over It”.

Dan has been married to actress and singer Lisa Fuller, who he met while filming the movie “Teen

Witch” and has one son, Cole. In his spare time Dan loves to brew micro beer and play as much golf

as possible.

Patrick O’Connor – Bob Patrick’s film credits include roles in; Christmas With The Kranks, Post

Grad, Seven Psychopaths and the upcoming Sound of Magic.

His extensive work in TV includes guest appearances on Rizzoli &

Iles, Castle, House M.D., Criminal Minds, Private Practice, The Office,

CSI:NY, Big Love, Gilmore Girls, Malcolm in the Middle, Boston Legal and

Monk, Just to name a few. He has had recurring roles on The Shield, Passions

and American Dreams.

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BFFs

Directed by ANDREW PUTSCHOEGL

Written by

ANDREA GRANO & TARA KARSIAN

Produced by ANDREA GRANO TARA KARSIAN

ANDREW PUTSCHOEGL

Director of Photography ANDREW HUEBSCHER

Edited by

COREY ZIEMNIAK

Production Designer VINCENT ALBO

Casting by

GREG ORSON, C.S.A. JOANNA DAVIS

Music by

PAUL BUCKLEY

Costumes Designed by MARISSA BORSETTO

Line Producer

DAN BERNARD

Associate Producers RYAN MININGHAM

JONAH KLEIN

Unit Production Manager KATE GRADY

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Katherine Samantha Jacqueline

Bob Suzie

Ken JK

Jonah Chloe Scott

David Rebecca

Tom Joan

Grace Lori

Terry Danny

TARA KARSIAN ANDREA GRANO SIGRID THORNTON PATRICK O’CONNOR JENNY O’HARA RICHARD MOLL SEAN MAHER RUSSELL SAMS LARISA OLEYNIK JEFFREY VINCENT PARISE DAN GAUTHIER MOLLY HAGAN ERIC LIVELY PAT CARROLL KATHY GRANO TANYA CLARKE GINETTE RHODES ANDREW JAMES JONES