The New Tenants Director — Joachim Back
Actors Vincent D'Onofrio
Kevin Corrigan
Lian Balaban
David Rakoff
Producers Lance Acord
Mette Ambro
Jackie Kelman Bisbee
Sam Bisbee
Erika Hampson
Distributor Shorts International
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Awards Academy Awards - Best Short Film, Live Action (2010)
Film Festivals Tribeca Film Festival
Los Angeles Reel Film Festival
Milwaukee Film Festival
Woodstock Film Festival
In this darkly comic outing, which won the 2009 Academy Award for Best Live Action short, two gay men move into an apartment building, little realizing that the flat owns a very complicated and troubled history. Suddenly thrust into tumult of which they have no prior knowledge, the couple must contend with an obnoxiously nosy neighbor, a strung-out-drug dealer, and an overly intimidating, gun-packing husband with a deadly agenda.