


He tells Zach that the latter's future depends on whether Danny wins or not.ĭanny strikes a relationship with Chris Wachowsky, the winner of the previous year's festival.

Welds seems to understand the situation and tips him that Danny, with the help of his friend Abbey Park, cheats in order to increase his chance of winning the competition. Zach is approached by Welds, the school's elderly security guard. Blossom, dismisses his misgivings about Danny's identity. Zach suspects it as Topher's elaborate joke, but it becomes more and more real as the headmistress, Mrs. Even more puzzling, he is named Danny Reyes, Zach's birth name, and submits Judas Kiss, the same film Zach submitted years ago. To his shock, Zach finds out that the patron is a participant in the festival. The night before the judging, Zach goes to a gay bar where he has sex with a younger patron. Zach is initially reluctant, as it brings memories of the festival defining his life for the worse: he won the festival 15 years ago, which convinced him to drop out of college and move to Hollywood, where his career struggled. Failed filmmaker Zach Wells is asked by his friend and hotshot director, Topher Shadoe, to take his place as judge in the annual Keystone Film Festival, held in Zach's alma mater, Keystone Summit University.
