SPOILER ALERT: 'All Sorts' comes to Roxy

NEWPORT — Upcoming showings of the quirky comedy “All Sorts” will almost be like coming home for the film’s writer, Rick Castañeda.

The Yakima local’s film will be shown for consecutive weekends on July 23-24, and July 30-31 at the Roxy in Newport.

“We’re really excited to be screening ‘All Sorts’ in Newport,” said Castañeda, who grew up in Granger, Wash. “I feel like the whole state came together to make this film. We filmed in Yakima, had actors from Seattle, and crew members that came from Tri-Cities.”

“This film has been all over the world and now it’s coming to Newport thanks to The Newport Roxy’s amazing support for local independent filmmakers,” Castañeda said in a press release by film company Vibrant Penguin.

The film was one of the festival’s most-viewed films when it premiered at the 2021 Seattle International Film Festival. Film critic Chase Hutchinson called the comedy “sentimental and surrealist.” After the film’s international debut at the London Raindance Festival, critic Steve Harcourt said the film “has in abundance … an off-beat wit, and remarkable charm.”

“All Sorts” is the story of a lonely data entry clerk who stumbles into the world of competitive folder filing. The quirky comedy is about trying to find magic and escape the mundaneness of everyday life. Diego, played by Eli Vargas (“Chavez”; “You, Me and Dupree”; “Arrested Development”; and “Burning Bodhi”), is desperate to find a job and excitement.

New at a strange company, Diego meets an incredibly fast folder filer named June, played by Greena Park (“The Comedown” and “Family From Tang”). After meeting, the two journey through a wildly unexpected office adventure.

“When I moved to Los Angeles to break into the film industry, I worked a lot of mundane office jobs,” Castañeda said. “I found lots of time to imagine magical escape routes out of the gray cubicles where I was trapped everyday. I really wanted to add a little magic to this otherwise dreary landscape.”

Nearly 20 years ago he found that escape and wrote what became the witty film.

“‘All Sorts’ is truly a community-made film,” Castañeda said. “The producer and art director stayed at my parents’ house. Other family friends invited crew members into their homes.”

“We want to make magic; that’s why we make movies, and that’s especially why we made this movie,” he added. “This is a very positive movie about love, about friendship, about finding magic in a dim, drab place. We think it will bring smiles to a lot of faces, and really get people to think about their world in a different way.”

The Newport Roxy is a 1950s single screen theater located at 120 S Washington Ave in Newport. Screening times are 7:30 p.m. on Saturdays and 2:30 p.m. on Sundays.