If your directorial debut has its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, you’re doing something right. And that’s definitely the case for Lee Kirk and his film, The Giant Mechanical Man. Thirtysomethings Janice (Jenna Fischer) and Tim (Chris Messina) haven’t quite learned how to navigate adulthood. Tim is a street performer whose unique talents as a “living statue” don’t exactly pay the bills. Janice is out of work and under pressure by her sister (Malin Akerman) to date an egotistical self-help guru (Topher Grace). In the film – also written by Kirk – these two strangers help each other to realize that it only takes one person to make you feel important.

The Giant Mechanical Man premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 23 and hits theaters on April 27.