
Directing
Kestrin Pantera
Born 1979-01-01 · USA
Kestrin Pantera is a writer/director the New York Times called “a force.” Her feature, “Mother’s Little Helpers” World Premiered at SXSW, it sold and released in 2020. Awards include Best Feature, Best Director, Best Ensemble Performance and Best Actress.
Acting credits
7.7Paul Lionetti is a child prodigy whose genius becomes both his greatest gift and his ultimate curse. Celebrated in his youth for groundbreaking inventions, Paul's masterpiece--an enigmatic device known as "the cube"--promised to change the world. But in a world driven by greed and shadowed by conspiracy, brilliance is a dangerous currency.
Dark Mind
2006
A former one-hit-wonder relocates her family to a small town, where she becomes fiercely competitive in her daughter's school science fair, reigniting her thwarted ambitions and sparking a parental feud.
Untitled Kestrin Pantera Indie Project
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6.1When Joy Pride, a groovy 70s burn-out on the caboose of the flower power movement learns she has weeks to live, her estranged children come together to do right by a mother who always did them wrong. It's based on the premise that no matter who dies, we always find a way to make it all about us.
Mother's Little Helpers
2019
5.9The film revolves around Claire, a kind soul who resents having to enforce the law at all times, and Jay, an angry Traffic Officer who loves his job, being the perfect outlet for his anger and frustrations. Coming both from a place of despair and loneliness, Jay and Claire meet and engage in a tumultuous relationship which will eventually teach them that love can spread redemption.
Expired
2007
NRSTAKES IS HIGH is the story of Will Goldin, an actor whose life is turned upside down when he leases a car to drive for a rideshare company. Will quickly realizes he can’t afford rent and the car lease, so he moves into his car to try to get ahead. Teetering on the edge of homelessness, he sacrifices everything to hold onto his dreams but it may not be enough – a modern day "Taxi Driver" and social commentary on the gig economy.
Stakes Is High
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"Stars and Suns" is the story of a teenage girl and her younger brother, both fantasizing about escape.
Stars and Suns
2008
5.5Channing has it all: a beautiful home, a rock star lifestyle, and a loving husband intent on ruining it all by knocking her up.
Let's Ruin It with Babies
2013
Behind the camera
A former one-hit-wonder relocates her family to a small town, where she becomes fiercely competitive in her daughter's school science fair, reigniting her thwarted ambitions and sparking a parental feud.
Untitled Kestrin Pantera Indie Project
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A former one-hit-wonder relocates her family to a small town, where she becomes fiercely competitive in her daughter's school science fair, reigniting her thwarted ambitions and sparking a parental feud.
Untitled Kestrin Pantera Indie Project
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A former one-hit-wonder relocates her family to a small town, where she becomes fiercely competitive in her daughter's school science fair, reigniting her thwarted ambitions and sparking a parental feud.
Untitled Kestrin Pantera Indie Project
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Niki and Lara are two women with polar-opposite personalities who discover, at their husband’s funeral, that they were married to the same man. As secrets from his life emerge, the unlikely duo embark on a perilous road trip to uncover the dangerous truth about the man they thought they both knew.
Double Crossed
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5.6A disoriented couple gets invited to a Sonoma Chateau by affluent strangers and ends up having the most unhinged weekend of their lives.
Pretty Problems
2022
6.1When Joy Pride, a groovy 70s burn-out on the caboose of the flower power movement learns she has weeks to live, her estranged children come together to do right by a mother who always did them wrong. It's based on the premise that no matter who dies, we always find a way to make it all about us.
Mother's Little Helpers
2019
6.1When Joy Pride, a groovy 70s burn-out on the caboose of the flower power movement learns she has weeks to live, her estranged children come together to do right by a mother who always did them wrong. It's based on the premise that no matter who dies, we always find a way to make it all about us.
Mother's Little Helpers
2019
5.5Channing has it all: a beautiful home, a rock star lifestyle, and a loving husband intent on ruining it all by knocking her up.
Let's Ruin It with Babies
2013
5.5Channing has it all: a beautiful home, a rock star lifestyle, and a loving husband intent on ruining it all by knocking her up.
Let's Ruin It with Babies
2013
NRWhen the Supreme Court rolls back marriage equality and orders couples’ lawful children to be taken and placed with “traditional” families, a daughter and dad flee their home, dodging citizen bounty-hunters, to find refuge in a gay-ballroom safe-house across the border.
Separate
2023