Stompbox: CASH COW – Q&A with Director & Star Matt Barats!

With Director/Star Matt Barats and Editor/Producer Whit Conway in person Q&A!

In the Fall of 2020, a financially struggling actor (Matt Barats, THE REVERIES TRILOGY) camps and explores early Mormon historical sites as he anxiously awaits national broadcast for his Domino’s Pizza commercial. Self-funded and shot alone over 30 days during the COVID pandemic, the Slamdance 2023 low budget comedy blends documentary and narrative, resulting in a deadpan comedy through one man’s lens.

“This feels like a foundational micro-budget masterwork” – Toronto Film Critics Association

Notes from Stompbox programmer David Bertrand: 

In 2023, I was on the documentary jury for the Calgary Underground Film Festival, and CASH COW – which we awarded a special Honourable Mention – was far and away the secret fave of the jury and programming team. This ranks with BO BURNHAM: INSIDE as the greatest and funniest pandemic movie, one man’s lonely camping adventure retracing the path of Joe Smith and the early Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints as a time-killing exercise while waiting for his ‘cash cow’ – a big payday from a Domino’s Pizza ad that surely will broadcast any day now? The twists and turns will leave you aghast.

See CASH COW, then check out Matt Barats’ equally fantastic ANCHORS AWEIGH which premieres in TIFF’s Midnight Madness section the very next day.

Part of the Stompbox series!

Cast/Crew Info
Director: Matt Barats | Cast: Matt Barats, Bardia Salimi, Ana Fabrega, Brad Howe