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Conner O’Malley is the internet’s most Online filmmaker

Little White Lies
Story by Finlay Spencer
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A mockumentary about a pair of white rappers in 2009 Tobyhanna, PA who struggle to record a make-or-break album, revealing the ennui of lives stuck in a dead-end town.
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  • Conner O'Malley's latest film 'Rap World' adopts a distinctly 21st-century visual language, using grainy, shaky DV footage and in-camera filters to create a faux document of early 2000s malaise.
  • The film's sense of realism, from the characters' financial struggles to their proto-shitposting dialogue, makes it feel like a 'Meantime for middle America,' capturing the suburban despondence of a generation trapped by the broken promises of the internet age.
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Conner O'Malley, Danny Scharar, Matt (O'Malley), Casey (Jack Bensinger), Jamie (Eric Rahill), Caleb Pitts, Edy Modica, Stand-Up Solutions, Rap World
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