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The dramatic feature “Pvt Chat”, written and directed by Ben Hozie, stars Julia Fox as ‘Scarlet’ and Peter Vack as 'Jack', streaming on Apple TV and On Demand:

"...'Jack' is a gambler, living in New York who becomes obsessed with 'Scarlet', a 'cam girl' from San Francisco.

"Jack’s obsession reaches a boiling point when his fantasy suddenly materializes after he spots Scarlet on a rainy street in Chinatown..."

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"Pvt Chat" is a drama feature, written and directed by Ben Hozie, starring Peter Vack as 'Jack', a gambler obsessed with 'cam girl' 'Scarlet' (Julia Fox), streaming on Apple TV and On Demand: 

"...'Jack' is a gambler, living in New York who becomes obsessed with 'Scarlet', a 'cam girl' from San Francisco. 

"His obsession reaches a boiling point when fantasy materializes into reality after Jack spots Scarlet on a rainy street in Chinatown..." 

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I first heard about Pvt Chat during its long post-production period in 2019. The film struck me as too good to be true: an erotic drama, directed by Ben Hozie of Bodega, about a man (Peter Vack) obsessed with an internet cam girl (Julia Fox), along with supporting turns by Buddy Duress, Dasha and Anna from Red Scare, and Keith Poulson––not to mention a score by Parquet Courts’ Austin Brown.

With the film now in theaters and on digital, I asked Hozie to take part in a conversation, promising I “wouldn’t ask any boring or stupid questions.” He graciously agreed.

The Film Stage: One of the things I appreciate about Pvt Chat is how you handled the sex scenes—they’re super unstylized and raw, with an intimate, unpredictable quality. What was the process like? What were some of the conversations you had with the cast and crew to set the tone?...

This mumblecore drama about a man’s obsession with an online sex worker is uncomfortably funny and semi-insightful

In a 2016 Vanity Fair article, Nancy Jo Sales wrote about prostitution going mainstream, describing a new economy of young people selling their bodies to pay off student loans or just to get by in the tough economic climate. On the same theme, Ben Hozie makes his feature debut with this semi-insightful, uncomfortably funny indie drama about a man who becomes obsessed with an online sex worker. It’s a film with a slackerish mumblecore vibe, and Hozie is refreshingly grown up about sex. But it’s hard to see how his film adds much to the conversation about intimacy in the internet age.

It’s set in the self-consciously hip New York art scene where Jack (Peter Vack) calls himself a professional gambler; though watching him max out his credit cards playing...

Stars: Nikki Belfiglio, Atticus Cain, Buddy Duress, Julia Fox, Kevin Moccia, Keith Poulson, Peter Vack, David White | Written and Directed by Ben Hozie

Ben Hozie writes and directs Pvt Chat, a psycho-erotic drama about a New York City based online gambler named Jack (Peter Vack) who begins an obsession with a cam-girl called Scarlet (Julia Fox), which leads to different places when he runs into her in real-life on the streets.

The movie begins nicely enough, with a heart-warming scene involving masturbatory fantasies related to high-heel shoes and cigarettes, but things get a little more adult from there. The way the film is shot feels very intimate, maybe too intimate, as we enter the up-close world of Jack and Scarlet’s noxious relationship (if relationship is even the right term). The sexual acts and moments in which the two open up to one another feel like we’re in the same room,...

If you like your face rubbed in the seedy underbelly of after-hours psychosexual obsession in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, then “Pvt Chat” is the movie for you. Writer/director Ben Hozie’s great-looking indie knows how to conjure a gritty New York atmosphere of cigarette smoke and ennui in the city, but despite highly naked (in every sense of the word) performances from Julia Fox and Peter Vack, it .

And that’s not passing judgment on anyone’s sexual proclivities, as this movie assures. Jack’s (Peter Vack) taste is for women comfortably at a distance through a screen, as he spends his nights sending tokens to virtual cam girls who degrade him while he masturbates drearily. His professional life during waking hours is nonexistent: Despite seemingly plenty of disposable income, he can’t make rent on time, and his roommate recently died by suicide, leaving Jack with the bill.

Exploring how the mourning of the loss of a familiar and comfortable period in a person life, and how they become increasingly dependent on visual stimulation to overcome their pain to almost an addictive level, is a powerful journey that’s not often relatably explored in modern cinema. But the provocative new psycho-sexual thriller, ‘Pvt Chat,’ […]

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It doesn’t get more cynical than the answer Jack (Peter Vack) gives to his own question, “What’s the common thread that connects every relationship you experience?” Scarlet (Julia Fox) nervously laughs when he asks it because she knows it’s rhetorical the moment he finishes. He doesn’t want her opinion. He wants to tell her what he thinks and does exactly that when explaining how we all exist to use others and be used by them. Just because Jack’s insight is overly cynical, however, doesn’t mean he’s wrong. A post-capitalist society built atop the internet that’s been consumed by the transactional ease of technological advances demands exchange, exploitation, and nihilism. Scarlet talks to Jack because he pays her. Jack talks to Scarlet because she fuels his orgasms.

They use one another to satisfy their needs and ultimately become slaves to that system. Despite...

Vertigo Releasing has debuted a new trailer for writer, director, and Bodega front-man Ben Hozie’s ‘Pvt Chat’.

Jack (Peter Vack) is a lonely internet gambler living in New York City. He quickly becomes fixated on Scarlet (Julia Fox) – a cam girl from San Francisco. As Jack learns more about Scarlet, he discovers her unrealized talent as a painter and begins to fall hard for her. His obsession reaches a boiling point when fantasy materializes in reality, and Jack sees Scarlet on a rainy street in NYC Chinatown. While Scarlet is clearly hiding her whole truth, milking Jack’s wallet in the process, she also seems to develop genuine feelings for him. Jack has to find out – is their emotional connection real or is he just being taken for a ride?

The film stars Peter Vack, Julia Fox and Buddy Duress.

Also in trailers – Frank Grillo is a slimeball in...

From the moment we first encounter unwell online gambler “Blackjack” Jack (Peter Vack), he is a cheerful loose cannon. In this case, it is while he is in the middle of getting his nightly kicks on an internet sex chat site. He has found his way into a video conversation with buxom black leather-clad dominatrix Scarlet (Julia Fox), who per his instruction verbally undresses a nude Jack, coaching him to an orgasmic climax in the dark of his tiny New York apartment, while writer/director/cinematographer/editor Ben Hozie’s fish-eye lens hovers over him.

Jack is the mad antihero at the heart of Pvt Chat, scheduled for theatrical release on February 5th before premiering on VOD and streaming platforms on February 9th through Dark Star Pictures. The film is currently screening as part of the Dark Star Virtual Festival, a free online event courtesy of Dark Star and Bloody Disgusting,...

Ben Hozie's psycho-sexual thriller Pvt Chat is coming to (some) U.S. cinemas on February 5th followed by On Demand and digital releases on February 9th. The official poster and trailer were released yesterday. You will find both down below including a selection of stills. The poster and a couple of the images are slightly suggestive so do with that information what you will. Pvt Chat had its world premiere during the digital edition of Fantasia in August last year. Hozie wrote, directed, shot and edited his film. He let other people join in on the fun as well including his key cast Peter Vack (HBO Max’s “Love Life”) and Julia Fox. His film also stars Buddy Duress, Keith Poulson, Kevin Moccia,...

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"You use these people, or they use you." Dark Star has debuted an official trailer for Pvt Chat, another cam girl stalker film. This originally premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival last year, and it lands on VOD next month. Jack is an internet gambler living in NYC who becomes fixated on Scarlet - a cam girl from San Francisco. His obsession reaches a boiling point when fantasy materializes in reality and Jack sees Scarlet on a rainy Chinatown street. What will he do next? Pvt Chat stars Julia Fox (best known for Uncut Gems) as Scarlet, and Peter Vack as her stalker Jack, also joined by Buddy Duress, Keith Poulson, Kevin Moccia, and David J. White. This looks like a twisted, discomforting examination of how the internet has altered the way we connect, and empowered people to get crazier thinking they know someone from online. Here's the official trailer...

After delivering one of the best breakthrough performances in recent years in the Safdies’ Uncut Gems, Julia Fox is back in her first follow-up role. Ben Hozie’s Pvt Chat, which premiered at Fantasia Fest last year, is psychosexual noir following Fox’s character, who plays a cam girl that forms a bond with a client. Now set for an early February release, the first trailer and poster have arrived.

“A complicated and messy film that plays with ideas of eroticism in the digital age, Pvt Chat is repulsive, alluring, and darkly comedic,” Mike Mazzanti said in his Fantasia Fest coverage. “The film focuses obsessively on Jack, a self-absorbed, pseudo-intellectual online gambler whose primary means of human connection is with cam models. His self-aggrandizement is where the film gets the bulk of its repulsion. One model, Scarlett, played by a pitch-perfect Julia Fox, becomes the center of his fixations. Through...

Though Adam Sandler, deservedly, gets most of the love for the 2019 film, “Uncut Gems,” his performance is almost overshadowed by the relatively unknown young actress Julia Fox as his jewelry store employee/mistress. Fox’s performance is so good in that film, many people were wondering what the actress has up her sleeve next. Apparently, her next major film is the forthcoming thriller, “Pvt Chat.”

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As seen in the trailer for “Pvt Chat,” the film stars Fox as an Internet cam girl/dominatrix that earns her income by luring men in with her beauty, charm, and dominant personality.

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Rising star Julia Fox made her breakout turn in 2019 in the Safdie Brothers’ “Uncut Gems” as Howie Ratner’s (Adam Sandler) loyal girlfriend. But she’s thankfully not about to go mainstream and appears to be sticking to her New York City art scene roots. Next up, she stars as a femme fatale in Ben Hozie’s noir-inspired psychosexual, urban thriller “Pvt Chat.” In this New York-set indie, Fox is a leather-clad cam girl opposite Peter Vack as an online blackjack and her sub client, whom she meets during web calls. Watch the trailer, exclusive to IndieWire, for the film below.

In “Pvt Chat,” Jack (Vack) is a lonely internet gambler who becomes fixated on Scarlet (Fox). He discovers her unrealized talent as a painter and begins to fall hard, but his obsession reaches a boiling point when fantasy materializes in reality and Jack sees Scarlet on a rainy street in NYC Chinatown.

Punk musician Ben Hozie made his directing debut on the ‘camgirl’ thriller.

Dark Star Pictures has acquired North American distribution rights to psychological thriller Pvt Chat, which had its world premiere at this year’s Fantasia Film Festival.

Dark Star is planning a theatrical release in January followed by a VOD/digital release in February.

The film stars Julia Fox and Peter Vack in the story of an internet gambler from New York whose fixation on a San Francisco ‘camgirl’ - an online sex acts model - reaches boiling point when he sees her on a Chinatown street.

Ben Hozie,...

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St in 2003, the film details the last summer of three Dublin high school graduates—aimless Matthew (Chapman), his charismatic yet deranged friend Kearney (Cole) and their precocious friend Rez (Walsh-Peelo)—as they embark on an epic binge to celebrate a future without limits. But when they witness a catastrophic accident, the incident sends them spiraling,...

Unconventional love story stars ‘Uncut Gems’ breakout talent Julia Fox.

Vertigo Releasing has acquired UK and Ireland rights to erotic drama PVT Chat, which stars Uncut Gems breakout actress Julia Fox.

Vertigo picked up the rights directly from US producer Pretorius Pictures and plans to release the film theatrically and on digital platforms from February 5, 2021.

Pvt Chat will also be released by Rialto Distribution in Australia and New Zealand through its ongoing strategic partnership with Vertigo. The UK-based distributor has also partnered with Gravel Road to distribute the film in South Africa. Release dates for these territories have yet to be scheduled.

Stars: Nikki Belfiglio, Atticus Cain, Buddy Duress, Julia Fox, Kevin Moccia, Keith Poulson, Peter Vack, David White | Written and Directed by Ben Hozie

Ben Hozie writes and directs Pvt Chat, a psycho-erotic drama about a New York City based online gambler named Jack (Peter Vack) who begins an obsession with a cam-girl called Scarlet (Julia Fox), which leads to different places when he runs into her in real-life on the streets.

The movie begins nicely enough, with a heart-warming scene involving masturbatory fantasies related to high-heel shoes and cigarettes, but things get a little more adult from there. The way the film is shot feels very intimate, maybe too intimate, as we enter the up-close world of Jack and Scarlet’s noxious relationship (if relationship is even the right term). The sexual acts and moments in which the two open up to one another feel like we’re in the same room,...

Pvt Chat is directed by Ben Hozie and stars Peter Vack (of previous Fantasia Fest favorite Assholes) and Julia Fox. The film is a self-described “kinky plunge into loneliness” and the intimacy, false and real, that is developed online. Is it possible that, despite our constant connection, we are more alone than ever?

In Pvt Chat, Jack (Peter Vack) gambles online by day so that he may spend his earnings on the beguiling camgirl Scarlet (Julia Fox) by night. Over time, their relationship takes on the appearance of something more than a customer and client and Jack hopes to meet the cyber seductress. Scarlet insists that the distance between them makes this impossible, but Jack swears up and down that he spotted her in his neighborhood one rainy night. Secrets and obsessions could mean the end for these star-crossed online lovers.

The film creates a beautiful, but tragic portrait of...

Canadian festival will run a virtual event from August 20 to September 2.

Canada’s Fantasia International Film Festival has revealed a second wave of titles – including eight world premieres - for this year’s virtual ediion which is taking place from August 20 to September 2.

The Montreal-based festival will offer live screenings, a programme library, panels and workshops which will be accessible across Canada and geo-locked to prevent access from elsewhere.

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