Egghead & Twinkie (2023)

Interesting facts

Egghead & Twinkie is a 2023 film directed by Sarah Kambe Holland. The Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) describes the film as a "coming-of-age LGBTQ+ comedy" about a recently out Asian American teen and her nerdy best friend who "set off on a 2,000-mile road trip to meet her online crush".

Production

Egghead & Twinkie is the feature debut of Sarah Kambe Holland. She directed the film and also wrote the screenplay. She previously directed a few short films including In Bloom and Lady Bikers of Kolkata. In 2019, she introduced her proof-of-concept short film Egghead & Twinkie which was later expanded into this feature. It was crowdfunded on Indiegogo, raising $1K for production.

Louis Tomeo and Sabrina Jie-A-Fa play the titular roles of Egghead and Twinkie. For both Tomeo and Jie-A-Fa, it was their first starring role in a feature film. They previously appeared as the same characters in Holland's proof-of-concept short film.

Holland collected $50K in grants through submitting her proof-of-concept short film to competitions and festivals. The remaining budget was then accrued through crowdfunding sites like Seed&Spark.

Principal photography took place over the course of 40 days. The shoot was originally scheduled for 2020 before being pushed back by one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The majority of the cast and crew were volunteers, requiring production to work around their schedules, and the film was split into 4 phases throughout 2020 and 2021. For any locations where they were unable to secure permits, those scenes were shot Guerrilla style.

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