The Integrity Of Joseph Chambers

Writer-director Robert Machoian (2010 TFF alum) and actor Clayne Crawford, who together, previously made The Killing of Two Lovers, have a way with dark Americana and the perils of masculinity. They double down in The Integrity of Joseph Chambers, in which a would-be Rambo marches off on a solo hunting expedition that Variety likened to a “one-man Deliverance: No group of buddies on a weekend canoe trip. No dueling banjos. No hillbilly-inflicted sexual humiliation. Just a guy with a rifle in the woods, determined to prove something to the world about his capacity for self-reliance — a capacity that is very much in question with nearly every decision he makes.” What could possibly go wrong?

Preceding the film will be the nonfiction short The Last Days of August, co-written with its director, and Machoian’s partner on such acclaimed films as God Bless the Child, Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck.