Empty Nester’s Handbook

Empty Nester’s Handbook

Empty Nester’s Handbook is a dramatic comedy about a couple that has to learn how to reconnect after their last child goes off to college. Here’s what one festival programer wrote: “A charming, dramatic comedy honing on a dynamic faced by countless couples but seldom explored in popular culture: 40-somethings alone again, after the kids move out. In an unmistakably Austin context, this film shadows a couple rediscovering themselves – in the absence of children to define themselves by – & how to sculpt a sudden bounty of free time into new passions & pursuits, while stoking romanticism, now that, two decades later, it’s just-the-two-of-us again.”
9 Nominations – Winner Best Texas Filmmaker

Director Biography – David N. Reyes

David N. Reyes is a director, producer, photographer and editor, who along with his partner Lisa Reyes, have owned & operated their company X Horn Productions since 1999. In 2016, they completed their first narrative film, Trippin’ to the Altar, a dramatic comedy which follows a couple from engagement to “I do.” The film featured an all Central Texas cast and was filmed entirely in Austin with local cast and crew. Trippin’ premiered in Ft. Worth, held a hometown screening in Austin and went on an award winning turn on the festival circuit through summer 2017. David N. Reyes was nominated for Best Director from the Austin Revolutionary Film Festival and the Executive Producing team was nominated for the prestigious Excellence in Producing a feature film award by Idyllwild International film festival in California.

In 2017 he wrote, directed and co-produced his second feature, My Ranger. That film went on to eleven film festivals across the US and won awards for Best Domestic Comedy, Best Texas Feature and Best of Fest.

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