PRESENT COMPANY

DOCUMENTARY

LOGLINE: Present Company steps inside four American gathering places — a diner, a drive-in, a bar, a bowling alley — where owners fighting to survive and younger generations hungry for connection have more in common than they may know.

SYNOPSIS: The diner still serves. The bar still pours. The drive-in still flickers. The lanes still thunder on a Friday night. But the places are quieter than they used to be, and the faces are older.

Since the dawn of humankind, we've gathered face-to-face to tell our stories. Somewhere along the way, we stopped showing up.

Present Company sits inside these four places and listens — to the owners and employees who built something from scratch and are still fighting to keep it, and to the younger generations whose presence might just sustain it.

Unfolding through constructed vignettes, vérité interactions, and intimate portraiture, the film finds people of different ages, backgrounds, and walks of life drawn to something increasingly rare: analog spaces that reward the simple act of being present.

What emerges is a portrait of places that still do something quietly radical — put strangers in the same space without an agenda — a reminder that disconnecting, even briefly, is how we plug back into our surroundings and our present company.

STATUS: In-development. See The Skyline as similar proof of concept.