Today at the LA Shorts Fest, award-winning filmmaker Vladislav Alex Kozlov will be presenting “The Duel,” a short film that will serve as a preview for his upcoming movie “Hollywood Superman.” You may not feel like 2022 needs yet another superhero movie in its lineup, but this one’s different: it’s a documentary. How is that possible, you ask, if there are no superheroes in real life? ….Well, if you expand the definition….
If you’ve been to a major city like NYC or LA, you are no doubt familiar with the kind of panhandlers who dress up as popular characters and pose with tourists in hopes of getting cash. “Hollywood Superman” is a documentary about one of those people…the late Chris Dennis, who wandered around Hollywood Boulevard in his own Superman costume for over twenty years.
Dennis never had an easy life — the doc will go into his bouts with homelessness, the time his costume got stolen, his struggles with addiction and his tragic death in 2019. (He was buried in his costume.)...
