What is this film about?

Logline

Connor, a manipulative and self-alienated high school senior, ditches prom for his usual routine of bar-hopping, debauchery, and taking on alternate identities before being humbled by a string of disasters. 

Style

Welcome Back Lounge is a character study, so we’ve chosen to tell the story through Connor’s eyes and restrict the audience’s perspective to what he can see and hear. 

Inspirations

Emulating the visual patience of Antonioni, Wenders, Altman, Yang (and so many others), we plan to tell this story with wider compositions that give our actors room to show off. We feel this story calls for longer takes that allow one's eyes to travel around the frame. 

Who are we?

Creative Team 

The Welcome Back Lounge team is an assembly of passionate USC students from a wide variety of backgrounds. 

Director - Jack Yonover

Producers - Jack McMann, Dami Olatunji, Elijah Davis

Director of Photography - Dennis Lee

Lead actor - Connor Fife

Supporting cast (currently attached) - Kira Corbalis, Jess Nedry

Why This Film?

What we've set out to do

Our team of filmmakers believes in this medium’s ability to change its audience perspective on their own lives. We’re not naive, it’s an extremely difficult task and a very ambitious goal. But that’s what we’re setting out to do.
Directors statement

It is my hope that Welcome Back Lounge will show its audience a confusing character they can understand and a broken person they can still love.

A quote we love

 “I’ve never seen an exploding helicopter. I’ve never seen anybody go and blow somebody’s head off. So why should I make films about them?” - John Cassavetes