Kent Osborne and Amanda Street Interview - How to Cheat Video
The cast of the indie drama How to Cheat earned the Best Performance in the Narrative Competition award at the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival held June 16-26th in downtown LA. Starring Amber Sealey (who also wrote and directed the film), Kent Osborne, Amanda Street, and Gabriel Diamond, How to Cheat's cast impressed the film festival's jury by taking risks with their performances. "At a time where actors are often asked to take a larger role in the creation of what is said in a film and how it’s done, the performers of How to Cheat deserve special distinction," stated the jury. "Kent Osborne, Amber Sealey, Amanda Street, and Gabriel Diamond dug deeper and messier, heroically past the point of comfort."
Osborne and Street were among the celebrities to hit the red carpet on the closing night of the LA Film Festival which featured a screening of FilmDistrict's Don't Be Afraid of the Dark. Before taking in the screening, Osborne and Street talked about How to Cheat, the story, their characters, and not having to stick to a script.
How to Cheat Plot:
In this funny and honest depiction of the messiness of modern marriage, writer-director Amber Sealey also stars as Beth, a woman of child-bearing age and inclination who, with her husband Mark, has been struggling to conceive. Sealey's guileless performance as a woman betrayed by her own body is matched by Kent Osborne's as the awkward Mark, who, confused and frustrated, turns to online dating, where he shops for the perfect affair to shake up his life. Given his counterproductive tendency to reveal his motives up front, his encounters tend to be short and ugly, until he meets the avid Louise, whose complex attitude sets them all down an unexpected path.
