Driving Not Knowing is a 2015 American semi-autobiographical musical drama film directed by Benjamin R. Davis, Dylan Hansen-Fliedner, Dane Mainella and Jay Jadick. The film received the Alternative Spirit Award, First Prize from the Rhode Island International Film Festival.
Cast Dane Mainella as Will, a poet Jay Jadick as Lee, a musician Emily Rea as Jo, Will's friend Kenneth Goldsmith as Lenny Seth Schimmel as Noah Michael Wintermute as Paul Charley Ruddell as Chaz Bruce Spears as Corn, a drug dealer Jessup Lepkowski as Allen Liz Barr as Abby Theodore Jadick as Ted Debra Jadick as Debbie Alexa Nicolas as Mae Caroline Kee as Cybil Joe Tirella as Bouncer Janie Ruddell as Minor
Production
The film was produced on a low budget with filming locations around rural Pennsylvania. The film has been described as "semi-autobiographical" by Mainella and Jadick because it incorporates some of their own personal storylines within fictional scenarios.
Reception Stephen Farber of The Hollywood Reporter praised the film for its cinematography saying that it makes "this rural gateway enticing" and the music for being "intermiittently engaging". However, he criticized the characters for being thinly drawn and the actors' lack of charisma. He pointed out to Brokeback Mountain, another gay film, for how it should be done.
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