RENT FREE (2025)

LOGLINE: After hitting emotional and financial rock bottom, best friends Ben (gay) and Jordan (bi) come up with a scheme to spend an entire year living "rent free" with the help of friends, family and strangers alike in a rapidly changing Austin.

Directed by: Fernando Andrés Written by: Fernando Andrés & Tyler Rugh Producers: Fernando Andrés, Jacob Roberts, Temple Baker Cast: Jacob Roberts, David Treviño, Molly Edelman, Neal Mulani, Zeke Goodman, Sarah J Bartholomew, Carson Barwinkel, Frank Mosley, Kristin Slayman, Megan Bitchell, Bill Wise, Macon Blair

PRESS:

"The most impressive turns often [spring] from the most annoying personalities: Notably Roberts’ Ben, but also Neal Mulani as the bossier half of an upwardly mobile gay couple...These figures stop just short of caricature, their self-absorption credible even when it verges on the grotesque.” - VARIETY

"One of my favorite interludes has Ben and Jordan staying with Neil (Neal Mulani) and Gio (Carson Barwinkel), perhaps the world’s most toxic gay couple ever! Mulani nearly steals the entire film as the dom, hyper-controlling twink to Barwinkel’s hunky, obedient labrador." — THE QUEER REVIEW

"Populated by amusing scene stealers like [Mulani], the movie lands numerous funny jabs at queer culture." - METRO WEEKLY

OFFICIAL SELECTION:

Tribeca Film Festival
BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival
New Orleans Film Festival
Leeds International Film Festival
São Paulo International Film Festival
Bend Film Festival
Frameline Film Festival
and more…

Distributor: Cinephobia Releasing