Report From Sundance Sundance 2025: Filmmaker Carmen Emmi’s debut features stirring turns from Blyth and Russell Tovey Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey appear in Plainclothes (Photo by Ethan Palmer) Set and shot in his hometown of Syracuse, New York, with family members even making cameos, “Plainclothes” is clearly very personal to writer/director Carmen Emmi. It’s much more than its plot synopsis, which tells of a 1990s period piece about an undercover police officer luring gay men into the crime