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Down to the Felt starts when gambling addict Paul (Stahl-David) faces a deepening amount of debt. He loses his job, his home and owes mobsters massive amounts of money. Paul must move back in with his mother and is running out of options. However, a night out watching the game, Paul needs a hitman, David (Weston), who makes him an unusual deal. Paul knows what the future holds and must decide which direction to take before it is too late.

Note: international markets only Award-winning indie lands digital release across 60+ global territories By: Alexis Walkenstein PITTSBURGH, PA – OCTOBER 9, 2025 — Hawk Hill Pictures unveils the international release of The Stress Is Killing Me , a drama feature that skewers modern anxiety culture with wit, edge, and heart. Beginning October 17 , the film will be available to rent or buy across major platforms internationally. Visit AppleTV+ to pre-order now and watch the

DOWN TO THE FELT brings a gambler, a hitman and unexpected twists to home audiences this fall! By: Alexis Walkenstein COLUMBUS– OCTOBER 8, 2025 - From Hawk Hill Pictures, Down to the Felt , directed, co-written and produced by Columbus filmmaker Jon Osbeck under his banner Big Deal Pictures comes home this October 17! Pre-order Felt now via the Apple TV+ store . Watch the official trailer here. Set and filmed in Columbus, Down to the Felt follows Paul, a chronic gambl

By: Alexis Walkenstein PITTSBURGH– OCTOBER 7, 2025 — Hawk Hill Pictures announces the upcoming release of Christmas Cards , a charming holiday romance from writer-director Elgin Cahill. The film will be available for rent or purchase on October 15 on major platforms, and is open for pre-order now on the Apple TV+ store . Watch the official trailer 👇🏻 Christmas Cards Trailer Christmas Cards tells the story of Kate, a single mother contemplating a move to the big city as

By: Sal Cento (The Movie Nerds) “ This film allowed me to dig into the complexities of human relationships, set against a backdrop of crime and competition .” - from director Jon Osbeck on the official Down To The Felt website. A man who chooses death but then decides to step off that path. An assassin who is caught between a righteous life and a numbing one. A woman who plays it cool until the very end. Down To The Felt takes these three characters and stirs each one into

Deadline By: Matt Grober photo credits: Evan Felts/Birdie Thompson/Kenneth Cappello EXCLUSIVE : Michael Stahl-David ( Cloverfield ), Scottie Thompson ( Crown Vic ) and Michael Weston ( Home Before Dark ) are in production in Ohio on Down to the Felt , an indie dark comedy with action elements from filmmaker Jon Osbeck . The trio joins a cast that also includes Jo-Ann Robinson and Cullen Douglas. Written and produced by Dino Tripodis, Ralph Scott, and Osbeck, Down to the Fe

DOWN TO THE FELT Premieres in Columbus with Special Screenings at Studio 35 and the Drexel Theatre COLUMBUS– SEPTEMBER 4, 2025 - Central Ohio audiences will soon get the chance to experience the award-winning, locally produced feature film Down to the Felt, directed, co-written, and produced by Columbus filmmaker Jon Osbeck under his banner Big Deal Pictures. The film will premiere with two special engagements in the city: Studio 35 Cinema & Drafthouse – Thursday, September 4

Critically lauded historical drama expands digital reach following global theatrical success PITTSBURGH, PA - JULY 8, 2025 – Hawk Hill Pictures is pleased to announce the Canadian digital release of the award-winning historical drama Unsinkable: Titanic Untold on iTunes and Google Play starting today . Following a wave of international theatrical screenings, the gripping film that revisits the political intrigue surrounding the Titanic tragedy is now coming to Canadian home

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Richie Verito, a Circleville business owner turned actor, is stepping into the spotlight —both on screen and on air. Verito will appear this Sunday at 5 p.m. on What Really Matters with Mindy and Mikaela on 610 AM to discuss the upcoming debut Down to the Felt , and his transition into acting. Represented by The Talent Group, Verito is one of the cast members in Down to the Felt, a darkly comic action film that has already made waves in the independent film circuit. Joining

Eight successful friends from college. A nice, big house in New Mexico. One uninterrupted week of being able to work their dream job. Let’s just say the results are not what anybody expected. Whipping together a small-screen twenty-year reunion that is surprisingly buoyant with life, director Tom Carroll has created a charming little movie with The Stress is Killing Me . By playing people who are haphazardly trying out new careers and subsequently confronting problems that we

Circleville Business Owner turned actor Richie Verito recently traveled from Circleville, Ohio, to California to attend the red-carpet premiere of Down to the Felt at the Cinequest Film Festival, a major independent film produced in Columbus. The film, directed by Columbus filmmaker Jon Osbeck and co-written and produced by Jon Osbeck, Dino Tripodis, and Ralph Scott, is being recognized as the largest independent feature ever made in central Ohio. Both Tripodis and Scott ar

The Cinema Columbus Film Festival will kick off with the central Ohio premiere of "Down to the Felt." The Cinema Columbus Film Festival has released the complete list of shorts and feature-length films that will make up this year's festival offerings. Covering all genres, the festival will feature the work of filmmakers from all around the world as well as here in Ohio. Cinema Columbus will kick off with the central Ohio premiere of "Down to the Felt" — the largest independen

Coming soon to several theaters near you, CAPA’s fourth Cinema Columbus Film Festival will offer 20-plus screenings of approximately 50 independent feature and short films from April 30-May 4. The showcase, recently named the nation’s best film festiva l in USA TODAY’s 2025 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards, will take place at seven sites: Drexel Theatre, Gateway Film Center, Studio 35 Cinema & Drafthouse, Grandview Theater & Drafthouse, McConnell Arts Center, the Wexner Center

In writer and director Tom Carroll’s sophomore effort, The Stress Is Killing Me , a group of middle-aged friends from college show up to a twenty-year reunion to discover that they are no longer the people that they once were. What they once set out to accomplish in life, yet life now finds them middle-aged, wondering what could have been and what could possibly be. We are introduced to the ensemble characters and their intentions at the beginning of the film: a lawyer who wa

Tom Carroll’s “The Stress is Killing Me” stems from a great idea. I mean, all of us have re-evaluated our lives at some point, imagining what it would be like if we had taken a career path that we truly wanted to take when we were young. So, when Carroll offers his characters another chance at life – even if it is for a brief period of time, you’d expect things to be light, breezy, and fun. And while to some extent they are, the writer/director’s failure to capitalize on that

The Cinema Columbus Film Festival is an annual event that showcases independent films from all over, giving Columbus filmmakers an opportunity to share their work. One of the films screening in this year’s festival is a film by university alumnus Jon Osbeck. Osbeck has lived in Columbus almost his entire life and started acting in middle school. At this young age, he only did “commercials and little spots here and there,” but these small acting gigs are what got him his spot

The Cinema Columbus Film Festival just announced that the Columbus-made, major independent film "Down to the Felt" will headline the festival's opening night. The screening will serve as the central Ohio premiere for the film. "While the film festival doesn't just feature local works, it is very exciting to get the chance to feature such a hyper-local, hyper-beautiful work as part of our festival," said festival director Brett Reiter. "The intent has always been to, sort of,