Suggests: Devising the Dark Comedy of TWINLESS with James Sweeney

Join Sundance Collab for this exclusive Spotlight with James Sweeney, the writer, director, and star of the upcoming dark comedy film TWINLESS. The film premiered to wide acclaim at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award and Special Jury Award for Acting.

In TWINLESS, two young men meet in a twin support group and form an unlikely friendship. Roman (Dylan O'Brien) and Dennis (Sweeney) both search for solace and an identity without their other halves and soon become inseparable outside the group. But when Roman meets Dennis’ ebullient co-worker, Marcie (Aisling Franciosi), all is revealed to be not what it seems, as each man harbors secrets that could unravel everything.

In this interactive session, Sweeney will discuss working as a multi-hyphenate, finding the right tone when writing across multiple genres, and the challenges of making the second feature.

TWINLESS is being released by Roadside…