SUNDANCE NEXT FEST 2016: WHITE GIRL & CONVERSATION WITH CATHERINE HARDWICKE | Los Angeles, CA.
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| Credit: Sundance |
Summer, New York City. A college girl falls hard for a guy she just met. After a night of partying goes wrong, she goes to wild extremes to get him back.
DIRECTOR: Elizabeth Wood
SCREENWRITER: Elizabeth Wood
CAST: Morgan Saylor, Brian 'Sene' Marc, Justin Bartha, Chris Noth
SCREENWRITER: Elizabeth Wood
CAST: Morgan Saylor, Brian 'Sene' Marc, Justin Bartha, Chris Noth
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| Credit: White Girl Movie |
ELIZABETH WOOD + CATHERINE HARDWICKE IN CONVERSATION
Catherine Hardwicke’s first film as a director was the critically acclaimed Thirteen, which won multiple awards, including the Director’s Award at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival and Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. She has since become best known as the director of Twilight, which earned the biggest box-office opening weekend for a female director; other credits include Red Riding Hood and Lords of Dogtown. Hardwicke previously worked as a production designer, and she holds a bachelor of architecture degree from UT Austin and did graduate work in animation at UCLA Film School. She frequently works as a mentor at labs for Sundance Institute, Film Independent, and the Ghetto Film School. Hardwicke recently directed episodes for AMC and pilots for CBS and MTV, and she just finished a new pilot, “Eyewitness,” for USA Network. Her most recent film, Miss You Already, stars Drew Barrymore and Toni Collette.
PRECEDED BY ANNIE, A MUSIC VIDEO BY NEON INDIAN
A karaoke video turned fever dream in which Alan has to traverse B-roll cityscapes, taped over TV shows, and phone sex commercial breaks in search of a missing ex-lover. Shot over 8 cities on Neon Indian’s last tour of Asia, all libidinal hell breaks loose in this glistening meta ode to laserdisc-era sing alongs. Directed by Alan Palomo, Neon Indian himself, this is the world premiere video of the song which Pitchfork described as “very much an electro-pop song for when temperatures grow more humid, our actions less responsible and the nights longer
