Luciano DiMuccio

The Puppeteers is inspired by real events, exposing the hidden world of transnational repression. What we see today is likely just the tip of the iceberg.

Once celebrated as a gay icon of adult cinema, aging performer Brent Everett clings to the fragments of a dream of becoming a serious visual artist. As memories of fame blur and the grip of drug addiction deteriorates his sense of self, he pays the ultimate price of desire but never truly seen.