Nicole Johnson

The Bird Call Lady, Nicole Perretta, teaches Jay and Dwayne Johnson how to do a California quail call.

The Bird Call Lady, Nicole Perretta, teaches Jay and Dwayne Johnson how to do a California quail call.

Writer-director Chris Mason Johnson's award-winning first feature (Best Lead Actress, Nicole Bilderback, Outfest; Best Director, First Feature, Ft. Lauderdale) charts the lives of five New Yorkers, a mix of gay and straight best friends about to turn thirty. With emotionally vivid performances and nuanced characters, The New Twenty paints the portrait of a generation living the highs and lows of a Wall Street world destined to disappear overnight. The year is 2006 and prosperity seems unending: two of the five are investment bankers, another works in advertising, another does freelance database design, and only one of the five might be called a slacker. But they all suffer from, as loner Felix puts it, 'a touch of existential malaise courtesy of late capitalism. You know, the usual.' So if money isn t the root of their discontent, what is? Whatever they re searching for - love, meaning in work - they won t find it in each other. On TV, friendship lasts forever. In real life, not so much.