Two ghosts stuck in purgatory hatch a scheme to find a missing girl in order to earn a ticket into heaven
Melanie Stone is SANDY
A spritely, pansexual dead person with strong opinions about pop music and mustaches. Sandy is aggressively sex-positive but in a “lovable-bastard-with-a-heart-of-gold” kinda way.
Gabe Casdorph is LANCE
A painfully awkward dead person who may or may not have run with the illegal narcotics crowd back when he was living. You wanna talk cyborgs or hear a potentially-offensive accent? Lance is your guy.
Aubrey Reynolds is DAPHNE
An architect with a strange distain for veterinary professionals but a love for all things Lululemon. She jogs. She weeps. She investigates the disappearance of her beloved sister, Claire. And she does almost all of it with a minor concussion (it’ll make sense once you see the movie).
Jason Marley Rain is DUSTY
A fully-licensed and badge-wearing Parole Officer, serving the great state of Utah, Dusty always gets his man but secretly pines for Daphne. He’s a New Age thinker with curious interests, but he’ll always be a law-man at his core.
Alex Gunter is BARTHOLOMEW
A literal demon… the “from hell” type, to be precise. Sent by Old Scratch himself, Bart’s job is to coerce Lance & Sandy into selling their souls in order to escape purgatory. He’s been at it for 30 years but things are finally starting to look up. Kinda.
The Synopsis
Sandra Marquez and Lance Bradshaw are ghosts, trapped in purgatory for living mostly terrible lives on Earth. Plagued daily by Bartholomew, a third-rate demon sent to entice them into joining team Beelzebub, their current situation isn’t what you’d call “great.” That is, until Daphne Smalls, architect and running enthusiast, catches Lance’s eye with her recent bout of onset sadness.
Through his keen powers of observation (because he can’t interact with her any other way), Lance deduces that Daphne’s sister, Claire, has gone missing. It’s then that he concocts a plan to help the woman he thinks(?) he loves while getting himself and his best friend, Sandy a golden ticket out of purgatory and directly into heaven.
The only problem? There are several problems. Too many to write out in fact, but Lance and Sandy put their heads together and enlist Bart (without him knowing) to use the forces of evil to do good. Sorta. What follows is a cavalcade of 1920s gumshoe troupes (shakedowns, fast-talking, and wearing trench coats at all hours of the day), lies told with the best of intentions, and Daphne finding out about those lies to disastrous effect.
With all hope lost and everyone sad, Lance attempts to make things right, but things don’t necessarily go as planned… especially once heaven gets involved.
Director, Gabe Casdorph
Gabriel Casdorph is an American actor known for Wind River, Mosaic, and Yellowstone. Originally from Cross Lanes, West Virginia, Casdorph has been a Utah transplant, working in front and behind the camera for over 10 years. He’s directed a number of shorts, commercials, web series, and a number of episodes of the sketch comedy series Studio C.
Writer/Director, Gabe Martinez
Gabe Martinez is a writer/director and creator of the strange web series, Blader High. Martinez worked for a few production companies in LA and eventually went on to develop and write projects for Uber Content, Hello & Co., and more. He’s directed commercials, music videos, web series, and organized a number of events for the Animal Nonprofit, More Than A Cone.
Executive Producer, Lenny Beckerman
Lenny Beckerman is part of the fabric of Hollywood, having managed high-profile talent and produced over 100 pieces of content in various genres over the past 20 years. Starting in 2000, Beckerman worked at Anonymous Content with Steve Golin for 11 years, then went on to be an executive at Hello & Company, Uber Content, Lotus Entertainment, and ROAR.
Producer, Melanie Stone
Melanie Stone was born and raised in Modesto California. She's been acting within the industry for over a decade, and recently started taking on other areas of filmmaking such as producing and writing. She's stoked to be on board with the talented team behind He's Dead. Fun Fact: When she’s not working in film, Ms. Stone spends her time at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, searching for elusive yellow pearls.
Associate Producer, Daiana Sanchez
Originally from Argentina, Daiana pursued her love of film and story by obtaining her degree in Cinema Production from Utah Valley University. Her producing career began at UVU after her short film, Guardian, won the Best Picture award in 2015 at the UVU Filmmaker Awards. Daiana's producing career has flourished over the last six years, and she’s collaborated with numerous filmmakers on a variety of projects, including features, short films, and award-winning commercials.
Associate Producer, Travis Shreeve
Travis Shreeve is an Accountant and CPA who has worked with a myriad of creators, with a special attention paid to filmmakers. Business owner, power-broker, and family man, Shreeve is also an attempted writer. However, he mostly makes up for his own lack of creativity by finding ways to help others utilize their creative abilities (much like the shamans of old). His pencil of choice is the Dixon Ticonderoga!
