The Delicate Medium
2026, Short Film (In Post-Production)
A queer memoirist's rise to fame turns into a chilling nightmare when he hires a medium to stop the traumatic voices in his head, at the moral cost of silencing spirits from his past.
This short film, in which Max Hechtman is serving as one of the executive producers, marks the film directing debut of Broadway actor and singer Jason Forbach (Into the Woods, Ragtime). It is now in post-production and expected to have a run on the film festival circuit in late-2026.
Starring Dan Amboyer (Younger), Eliseo Román (In the Heights, Kiss of the Spider Woman), Jonathan Burke (Harlem, Only Murders in the Building) and Christopher Gurr (A Murder at the End of the World, Parade)
Writer/Director: Jason Forbach
Producers: Lisa Marie Tedesco and Lea Marie Heller
Executive Producers: Sara Bareilles, Max Hechtman and Maya Maniar
Associate Producers: Beth Cowit, Gavin Creel, Christian Dalton, Joseph Anthony Francis, Lila Levy, Shaun McLane, Dorothy Thompson Savage and Douglas Sills
Cinematographer: Guillermo Cameo
Production Designer: Almudena Caminero
Sound Mixer: David Shaw
A Paper Plane Entertainment/SwiftBird Productions Production