Add fresh young talent, mix with veteran star Cathy Moriarty , season with comedy and some body horror and you have the recipe for Sunday Sauce , the new short from up-and-comer Matt Campanella .

The emerging cineaste not only directed, but wrote and stars in the film, which screens Saturday at the prestigious Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts festival in Los Angeles. The action takes place in the Morris Park section of New York City where a colorful family prepares for Sunday dinner – Grandmother Nancy (Moriarty), her son Gino (Matthew Risch), Gino’s daughter Francesca (Nicole Ehinger) who is pregnant and unmarried, and a woman who sits in a chair, comatose. That would be Maria (Maria Carrozza), wife of Gino, daughter-in-law of Nancy, felled by an air conditioner 457 days previously.

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