Funny Valentine

It’s Valentine’s Day, and Julian —a shy city-kid from Queens—might just be having the luckiest night of his workaday life.
He’s just hit the biggest NY State Powerball Jackpot in history. 1.9 Billion, bumped into his sharp-tongued, childhood crush, Dee-Dee, and booked himself the most extravagant celebration he could muster- an Airbnb in…New Paltz.
When Dee-Dee decides to join him upstate, the two end up stranded in the middle of nowhere while a blizzard rages outside.
Inside, another storm is raging—one with old wounds, fresh ambitions, and desires too messy to bury. Trapped together, they’re forced to wrestle with their pasts, their futures, and maybe a shot at owning their own lives and destiny for the first time.

About The Cast

fredwink | Director & Executive Producer

Swiss-Vietnamese actor, producer, director, and founder of INSUFFICIENT FUNDS. His work has been presented at the Locarno Film Festival, Chicago Int’l FF, Sidewalk FF, Dallas International FF, Woodstock FF, Flickers’ Rhode Island Int’l FF, FIDLab, US in Progress at the American Film Festival in Poland & in Rolling Stone Magazine.

He served on the jury for feature films for the 2025 Cucalorus Film Festival.

INSUFFICIENT FUNDS first feature film FAMILY PORTRAIT (dir. Lucy Kerr) completed a successful theatrical run at the Metrograph and can be streamed on any major streaming service.

His second feature ANNA COMES HOME (dir. Amber Suzor) won best comedy feature film at the Flickers’ RIFF and will be distributed by BitMax.

Isabel Monk Cade | Writer, Producer

Isabel Monk Cade is a NYC-based writer, actor, and producer of theater, film, commercial, and essay. Her work has been read and produced at The Barrow Group, Primary Stages, The Tank, El Barrio’s Artspace PS109, Naked Angels, and BasedIN, The Workshop Theater, among others.

NEW METRO PICTURES | Kenny Geiler & Sam Kitterman
Co-Producers

NEW METROPOLITAN PICTURES is an entertainment agency focused on bridging the gap between the amusements of yesteryear and today’s fractured media landscape.

Their focus is on providing experiences that breakthrough to a populace accosted with endless content streams, and give them exciting, fun, and thought provoking films, shows, and video games.

DIANA MOROSCOE | Viviana Valeria

Viviana is a multi-hyphenate artist who most recently originated the role of JAZ in Vogue Giovanna Giambri’s new play I Can’t Make Sense. She understudied on Broadway in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis, directed by Austin Pendleton.

Viviana originated the role of TAINA in Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven by Stephen Adly Guirgis, directed by John Ortiz. The co-production between Atlantic Theater Company and Labyrinth Theater Company, had a fantastic run—extended twice, earning rave reviews, and was named a New York Times Critic’s Pick.

JULIAN FANELLI | Dion Costelloe

Dion is a prolific actor in the New York indie film scene. His most recent work includes a standout performance as Eddie, a confident and charming lothario, in Alexi Wasser’s feature film Messy which premiered at SXSW in 2025 & as Luca in Daniel Antebi’s God’s Time, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.

He recently wrapped Tiger, playing Eddie Welch, the right-hand man to Irish mob boss Paddy Foley (Kevin Corrigan) Dion’s other work includes appearances in Lioness, Blue Bloods, FBI: Most Wanted, Showtime’s City on a Hill, and HBO’s The Deuce. He is currently shooting the feature film Buckets of Fun with Slamdance darling, Mike Macera.

CINEMATOGRAPHER | Katy McCarthy

Katy McCarthy is an artist, filmmaker and educator based in Austin, Texas. She holds a BFA from UC Santa Barbara and an MFA from the Interdisciplinary Studio Arts program at Hunter College.

Her films explore psychology and feminist issues from a surrealist perspective and have been screened at The Every Woman Biennial Film Festival, Boulevard Film Festival, CUNY Film Festival, and NurtureART’s Single Channel: Video Art Festival.

Her work has also been included in group shows at Tiger Strike Asteroid Gallery Los Angeles, Flux Factory in Long Island City, and the Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Museum among other venues. She has been an artist-in-residence at Lighthouse Works, LMCC Governors Island, SOHO20 Residency Lab, Grin City and The Wassaic Project. In 2018 Katy was the inaugural and sole recipient of the St. Elmo Fellowship at UT Austin.

PRODUCTION DESIGNER | Madeline Isakson

Madeline Isakson transforms found objects and materials through emerging and traditional fabrication techniques to explore our culture of consumerism. Driven by an exploration of new processes and materials, Madeline’s work continues to evolve and spans a wide range of collectible design objects, from lights to furniture to purely sculptural pieces.

Madeline’s work has been exhibited internationally—notably during Milan Design Week, Denfair in Australia, and the Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco, CA—it has also been featured in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Wallpaper* and more. She holds a BFA in Furniture Design from California College of the Arts and an MFA in 3D Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art.

COSTUME DESIGN | Alyson Golden Milberg

Alyson designs costumes on both independent narratives and commercial projects, and has contributed to costume departments on films that have screened at Sundance, Tribeca, and Berlinale. With a background in acting, she approaches costume design through a similar lens of character study, using wardrobe to reveal a characters desires, habits, and tastes.

Her latest contribution was on set for Boy Harsher’s upcoming feature THE LONLEY WOMAN, an erotic thriller starring FKA Twigs, Sturgill Simpson, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, and Chloe Sevigny.

She is currently in Los Angeles designing the play VERMONT, INDIA at New Theater Hollywood.