The truth about lies

Gilby finds himself in a tangled web of lies when the truth proves to be too much to admit and even harder to accept.

Gilby Smalls is having a meltdown. He’s just been fired from his job, lost his apartment in a fire and his girlfriend gave him the boot. And it’s only Wednesday. Now, at the ripe old age of thirty-something, he is forced to move in with May, his booze-swindling man-obsessed mother. This is the last straw. 

Gilby’s life is bleak until best friend Kevin drags him to a family get-together, where he meets Rachel, Kevin’s very beautiful but very married sister. Rachel is the very thing Gilby needs to get his life back on track. Desperate to impress her, Gilby starts to weave a web of lies; one bigger than the next. Now in a sticky mess, Gilby is forced to face the uncomfortable truth about himself before he can find a way out of his very own Lies.

The Truth About Lies explores the potent role lying plays in relationships and life with some surprising results!

Phil allocco

Over the last several years Allocco has garnered over 30 awards for his films and screenplays in categories such as Best Director, Best Short Film, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Audience Choice. He was also one of the short-listed directors picked by Steven Spielberg from a world-wide search of over 12,000 directors for his US TV series On the Lot for FOX TV, produced by Spielberg and Mark Burnett.

He was garnered with a number of awards for his feature film 5 Lbs of Pressure; his short films Joseph Henry, The Mirror and Delivered.

Allocco directed the Gold Effie Award-winning mini-doc series for History and Bank of America to air during their highest ever rated show, America the Story of Us. Touted as groundbreaking, the film was featured in articles in New York Times and Business Week. He directed History’s “Back to the Beginning Week” episodes for Swamp People, American Pickers, Pawn Stars and Counting Cars and the mini-doc series for Porsche, Porsche Decoded, as well as several commercial campaigns for Bank of America.

Allocco directed, wrote and edited the one-hour documentary Roxy: The Last Dance, which aired on MTV Network’s Logo. He also directed and edited twenty PSA’s for GLAAD’s “Be An Ally & A Friend” campaign, featuring more than forty celebrities including Zoe Saldana, Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Sally Field, William Baldwin, Graham Norton, Alan Cumming and Ellen DeGeneres.

In early 2005, Allocco produced and edited The Best of the GLAAD Awards for Logo. From 2003 to 2004 Allocco was the associate producer, segment director and editor of the TV series Repo Men - Stealing for a Living on TLC starring Vincent Pastore. He was also the associate producer of The Talent Collector for AMC and directed and edited numerous TV pilots and commercials.