INCLUDES POST-SCREENING Q&A with Screenwiter & Producer ERIC ULLOA
This warm and delightful mockumentary stars Academy Award winner Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King, Hustlers), Nolan Gould (Modern Family, Friends with Benefits) and Will Peltz (The List, Manifest).
Set primarily at Timeless Acres Retirement Home, the film follows a documentary crew who develop an interest in one of its star residents' feisty chess master Helen "Nana" Lewis (Ruehl). With the help of her friends, Nana begins training for the State Chess Championship. She plans on dominating the competition but her real plan involves reuniting her estranged grandsons, Andrew (Gould), a dedicated veterinary student and Cody (Peltz), a flashy male model and influencer. We follow Nana's journey in a hilarious and heartwarming family comedy about getting older and coming back together again.
A great ensemble cast includes Morgan Fairchild, Charlene Tilton (Dallas), Tony Todd (Candyman, Final Destination), Beth Broderick, Nicky Whelan (Hall Pass, Wedding Ringer), Sierra McCormick (The Vast of Night, American Horror Story) among others.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER
ERIC ULLOA is the Screenwriter and Producer of The Nana Project.
He is a 2020
American Theatre Wing Jonathan Larson Grant Finalist and a 2020 Kleban
Prize Award Finalist. He is the author of 26 Pebbles which
had its world premiere at The Human Race Theatre Company and was featured in American
Theatre Magazine, The New York Times and won the Kennedy Center
Citizen Artist Award for 2017. 26 Pebbles
was named one of the Top Ten Plays of 2017 by Samuel French was one of
the top produced plays nationally of 2018. In 2022 it received a Broadway World
Award for Best Play of the Decade.
Eric
is the librettist of a revised version of the musical May We All,
which opens at the Rev Theater Company in September 2024 and the author of the
play Reindeer Sessions, which will have its World Premiere in
December 2023 at the Human Race Theater Company. Other projects include the musical, Passing
Through which had its World Premiere at Goodspeed Musicals in Summer
2019, of which he is the librettist; and Meet the Alpha Beats for
Nickelodeon’s Noggin (2022 Webby Award Honoree-Best Kids and Family Podcast) which he co-created.
Eric
also wrote the Viva Broadway: Hear Our Voices special, writing
for such luminaries as Lin Manuel Miranda, Antonio Banderas, Chita Rivera and
many more. He is also the screenwriter of the film, Mikey’s Army (dir.
Andrew Keenan-Bolger) which was an official selection of the Outfest Fusion
Festival.
On
the other side of the footlights, Eric was in the Original Broadway Company of On
Your Feet: The Story of Gloria and Emilio Estefan and starred in 7
Deadly Sins under the direction of Moises Kaufman, He has
appeared on The 2016 Tony Awards, The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and A
Capitol Fourth.
