Seth Landau

Seth Landau is an actor/writer/director and former newspaper reporter for The Arizona Republic and New Times. Landau is known for two independent films, Take Out and "A.P.U.: Art, Pot and Underwear". The latter was termed by Film Threat as "a look at Hollywood you're not likely to find anywhere else". The former, "Take Out", was the target of a locally publicized dispute regarding Michael Sergio's film of the same name. The movies have distinctly different plots - Landau's being about a reporter who battles chain restaurants, and Sergio's being about a woman being stalked in a parking garage. Landau was "caught off guard" by the lawsuit filed against him, while Sergio felt that Landau was merely trying to gain free publicity off his Slamdance screening months earlier. Landau also directed the 2008 horror film Bryan Loves You.

References

• Seth Landau at the Internet Movie Database
• Story on "Take Out" by Brown University Press
• Seth Landau story in Queens (NY) Tribune
• Times story about Seth Landau/"Take Out" controversy
• Film Threat review of "A.P.U.: Art, Pot and Underwear"