"Something is chewing on the furniture in Matthew's apartment. When he confronts his new roommate, he starts to suspect that the culprit isn’t something … but someone."
Termite is a psychological horror short film about how our culture’s ideas and ideals of masculinity can eat away at us in insidious ways. It is Cronenberg adjacent, shall we say?
I am a screenwriter, fiction writer, playwright, and actor; Termite is my first project as a director.
I wrote the screenplay for Black Flies, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, starring Sean Penn and Tye Sheridan, after being selected for the Black List of Hollywood’s favorite unproduced screenplays. It was released as Asphalt City. He also wrote The Tutor, which peaked at #3 on Netflix’s Most Popular Movies list.
I was happy to get these two projects made, but both experiences were creatively unfulfilling. As I have been taking meetings about my most recent scripts, producers keep asking if I would ever want to direct. The answer is yes, and I’ve decided that the time is now.
Blossom Street Films is attached to produce. We aim to shoot in the spring of 2027.
A few creative team bios:
Ethan Dubin (Actor: Matt)
Ethan is a Brooklyn based actor and artist. Broadway: The Ferryman, Tony Award Best Play. Off-Broadway: five plays with Clubbed Thumb, most recently The Family Dog by Bailey Williams. Antigone: This Play I Read in High School (Public Theater); Bobbie Clearly (Roundabout);
Rancho Viejo (Playwrights Horizons). Some Film&TV highlights include: “Elsbeth”; “Poker Face”;
"Fallout”; the Coen Brothers’ “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"; “Mike”; and “Inventing Anna”. He is
an affiliate artist with the theater company Clubbed Thumb.
Blossom Street Films was founded in 2017 by Anne-Louise Brittain and Rozz Therrien. Their first commercial collaboration garnered an Epica award and their films have screened at numerous festivals including Hamptons International Film Festival, Santa Barbara Film Festival and the Champs-Élysées Film Festival. In 2025, they brought on Creative and Development producer Jacob Small. Alongside Petit Film and Opening Nights, BSF co-produced Hidden Hills, the latest film from Virgil Vernier, which is currently awaiting a festival announcement. Most recently, BSF produced Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Motivation” music video and are in post-production on meta-fiction feature Isle of Caprice and a sports documentary set in the world of women’s boxing.