Kestrin Pantera

Kestrin Pantera

Directing

Biography

Kestrin Pantera is a writer/director the New York Times called “a force.” Her feature, “Mother’s Little Helpers” World Premiered at SXSW, it sold and released in 2020. Awards include Best Feature, Best Director, Best Ensemble Performance and Best Actress.

Filmography Movies

Acting

Dark Mind movie poster

Dark Mind

Paul Lionetti is a child prodigy whose genius becomes both his greatest gift and his ultimate curse. Celebrated in his youth for groundbreaking inventions, Paul's masterpiece--an enigmatic device known as "the cube"--promised to change the world. But in a world driven by greed and shadowed by conspiracy, brilliance is a dangerous currency.

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Brunette aka Susan

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Stars and Suns

"Stars and Suns" is the story of a teenage girl and her younger brother, both fantasizing about escape.

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Let's Ruin It with Babies

Channing has it all: a beautiful home, a rock star lifestyle, and a loving husband intent on ruining it all by knocking her up.

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Let's Ruin It with Babies

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Stakes Is High

The story of a man, whose life is turned upside down when he leases a car to drive for a rideshare company.

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Untitled Kestrin Pantera Indie ProjectMOVIE

Untitled Kestrin Pantera Indie Project

A former one-hit-wonder relocates her family to a small town, where she becomes fiercely competitive in her daughter's school science fair, reigniting her thwarted ambitions and sparking a parental feud.

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Untitled Kestrin Pantera Indie Project

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Expired

The film revolves around Claire, a kind soul who resents having to enforce the law at all times, and Jay, an angry Traffic Officer who loves his job, being the perfect outlet for his anger and frustrations. Coming both from a place of despair and loneliness, Jay and Claire meet and engage in a tumultuous relationship which will eventually teach them that love can spread redemption.

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Woman with Baby

Mother's Little Helpers movie poster

Mother's Little Helpers

When Joy Pride, a groovy 70s burn-out on the caboose of the flower power movement learns she has weeks to live, her estranged children come together to do right by a mother who always did them wrong. It's based on the premise that no matter who dies, we always find a way to make it all about us.

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Mother's Little Helpers

Production

Let's Ruin It with Babies movie poster

Let's Ruin It with Babies

Channing has it all: a beautiful home, a rock star lifestyle, and a loving husband intent on ruining it all by knocking her up.

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Let's Ruin It with Babies

Let's Ruin It with Babies movie poster

Let's Ruin It with Babies

Channing has it all: a beautiful home, a rock star lifestyle, and a loving husband intent on ruining it all by knocking her up.

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Let's Ruin It with Babies

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Pretty Problems

A disoriented couple gets invited to a Sonoma Chateau by affluent strangers and ends up having the most unhinged weekend of their lives.

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Pretty Problems

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Same Difference

Following the debate over California's Proposition 8, this short film is an exploration of how modern American families are constructed, not only those within the LGBTQ community.

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Same Difference

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Separate

When the Supreme Court rolls back marriage equality and orders couples’ lawful children to be taken and placed with “traditional” families, a daughter and dad flee their home, dodging citizen bounty-hunters, to find refuge in a gay-ballroom safe-house across the border.

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Untitled Kestrin Pantera Indie ProjectMOVIE

Untitled Kestrin Pantera Indie Project

A former one-hit-wonder relocates her family to a small town, where she becomes fiercely competitive in her daughter's school science fair, reigniting her thwarted ambitions and sparking a parental feud.

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Untitled Kestrin Pantera Indie Project

Untitled Kestrin Pantera Indie ProjectMOVIE

Untitled Kestrin Pantera Indie Project

A former one-hit-wonder relocates her family to a small town, where she becomes fiercely competitive in her daughter's school science fair, reigniting her thwarted ambitions and sparking a parental feud.

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Untitled Kestrin Pantera Indie Project

Untitled Kestrin Pantera Indie ProjectMOVIE

Untitled Kestrin Pantera Indie Project

A former one-hit-wonder relocates her family to a small town, where she becomes fiercely competitive in her daughter's school science fair, reigniting her thwarted ambitions and sparking a parental feud.

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Untitled Kestrin Pantera Indie Project

Mother's Little Helpers movie poster

Mother's Little Helpers

When Joy Pride, a groovy 70s burn-out on the caboose of the flower power movement learns she has weeks to live, her estranged children come together to do right by a mother who always did them wrong. It's based on the premise that no matter who dies, we always find a way to make it all about us.

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Mother's Little Helpers

Mother's Little Helpers movie poster

Mother's Little Helpers

When Joy Pride, a groovy 70s burn-out on the caboose of the flower power movement learns she has weeks to live, her estranged children come together to do right by a mother who always did them wrong. It's based on the premise that no matter who dies, we always find a way to make it all about us.

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Mother's Little Helpers

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