Production Design
Room Temperature
John Waters's Best Movies of 2025
LA Festival of Movies, Frameline, New/ Next
Director: Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley
Production Designer: Kristen Dempsey
Director of Photography: Yaroslav Golovkin
Producer: Cara Braglia, Marcus Chang
One night every year a family transforms their home and yard into a haunted house and invites their neighbors to walk through it. What used to be a group effort has increasingly become the dad’s obsessive fantasy that his family is expected to enact.
Playland
Tribeca, IFFR, Frameline, Outfest
Director: Georden West
Production Designer: Kristen Dempsey
Director of Photography: Jodi Lam
Producer: Russell Sheaffer, Hannah McSwiggen
Playland is a boundary-pushing, transdisciplinary, hybrid film centered around the raucous activity of a time-bending night in Boston’s oldest and most notorious gay bar, the Playland Café.
