Lurker

A retail employee infiltrates the inner circle of an artist on the verge of stardom. As he gets closer to the budding music star, access and proximity become a matter of life and death..  

STARRING - Théodore Pellerin, Archie Madekwe, Zack Fox, Havana Rose Liu, Wale Onayemi, Daniel Zolghadri, Sunny Suljic

"In his debut feature, the writer/director Alex Russell ... viscerally captures the complex dynamics of hierarchical friendships, in which a fear of alienation and craving for belonging can drive people to the brink."

- IndieWire

"Alex Russell, a writer on The Bear, Beef and Dave making an assured feature directing debut, clearly knows the Los Angeles music scene, with its aspirational strivers and anointed supernovas, its hangers-on, its calculating opportunists and, yes, its lowly fans for whom an all-access backstage pass is the holy grail. Even the chosen few lucky enough to secure a spot in a star’s immediate orbit are subtly jockeying for position."

- The Hollywood Reporter

"...Alex Russell, the writer-director of “Lurker,” works with a highly accomplished jittery cell-phone-camera aesthetic that makes the entire movie a mirror of what it’s about: the fleeting I-shoot-a-video-of-myself-therefore-I-am celebrity that’s become the coin of the realm in the Instagram era."

- Vanity Fair