In attendance: Matthew Ogens, Charlie Gruet, Jamie Patricof,


This is the quintessential Los Angeles story. Young people with heads full of lofty dreams move to Los Angeles with hopes of making it big. But fate holds far too many twists for the naive newcomers and before long they are slapping on spandex for a living.

CONFESSIONS OF A SUPERHERO is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the lives of three mortal men and one woman who make their livings working as superhero characters on Hollywood Boulevard. This deeply personal look into their daily routines reveals their hardships and triumphs as they pursue and achieve their own kind of fame. The Hulk sold his Super Nintendo for a bus ticket to LA; Wonder Woman was a mid-western homecoming queen; Batman struggles with his anger, while Superman’s psyche is consumed by the Man of Steel. Although the Walk of Fame is right beneath their feet, their own paths to stardom are long, hard climbs.

 This film gets it right. Compelling subject matter and characters are coupled with beautiful doc technique and style. It’s like a common comic book raised to a loftier purpose in the hands of a master storyteller. The film is a well-crafted ode not only to its subjects but to the American Pantheon and the men and women who live in its shadow every day.

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