Fortuna
2024 · 10m · USA
Directed by Stephanie Ibarra, Anna Torzullo
Genres: comedy, documentary, satire
Two Brooklyn filmmakers point Sony handycams at themselves and chase a $226 million Powerball jackpot for an evening. The mock-doc accumulates technical screw-ups, petty fights, and creative bickering as the wealth fantasy spirals.
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Two filmmakers turn a lottery ticket run into a mock-doc and let themselves look bad on camera. Self-aware, cheap, and refreshingly committed to the bit.
Handycam mock-doc as one-night Brooklyn jackpot fantasy — Ibarra and Torzullo let the technical screw-ups become the structure, which is the American Movie move done in miniature. Charming, lived-in.
Two Brooklyn filmmakers handycam-document themselves chasing a real Powerball drawing, technical screw-ups and petty fights included — the Sony handycam grain is doing the meta-doc work itself. A great gimmick that lives on the friendship dynamics.