This week the BooF Brigade are celebrating the release of the year's second school-shooter comedy. Oscar Boyson's directorial debut Our Hero, Balthazar was one of our favourite films shown at VIFF last year, and so we invited Oscar onto the show to talk about the film and it's release in Canadian theatres.

Oscar has been a stalwart in the New York independent film circuit, working as a producer on some of the definitive independent films of the last fifteen years, such as Frances Ha (2012), Good Time (2017), Uncut Gems (2019) and Funny Pages (2022). With Our Hero, Balthazar he has carried the torch in creating another darkly comic and original work, punctuated with the anxious aesthetic of his peers.

The debut charts a wealthy teenager who tries to gain his crush's attention by p ...