Indie favorite Bob Byington burst on to the scene in 2008 with his SXSW midnight lofi low culture hit RSO Registered Sex Offender He followed that up at Lincoln Centers New DirectorsNew Films series with the Sundance Lab project Harmony and Me 2009 In 2012 Byington won the prestigious Special Jury Prize at the Locarno Film Festival with Somebody Up There Likes Me starring Nick Offerman and shortly thereafter he teamed with Jason Schwartzman for cult smash 7 Chinese Brothers 2015 In 2017 Byington worked with comedy stalwart Kieran Culkin to make Infinity Baby the film took best feature at the much lauded Woodstock Film Festival that year Bob is an Annenberg Fellow and is in the permanent collection at MoMA His new film is Frances Ferguson