| Director: | Jeannie Sui Wonders |
|---|---|
| Production: | MIRMADE (Miranda Kahn), Big Buddha Pictures (Tony Yang) |
| Running Time: | 12' |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Main Cast: | Grace Hunt Sui, Chase Sui Wonders, Riley Downey, Valeria Embarcadero Perez, Daphne Williams, Sophie Watson |
| Screenplay: | Jeannie Sui Wonders |
| Cinematographer: | Allison Anderson Triplett |
| Editor: | Leeda Yazdi |
| Production Designer: | Katy Dresner |
| Sound: | Christophe Daigle |
Cinema
Moon Lake
Orizzonti
synopsis
In suburban Michigan, in the mid-2000s, Tess, a reserved and strange middle schooler, stains the floor at a sleepover.
director's statement
The film is inspired by the Michigan lake suburbia sleepovers of my youth and explores early female adolescence and the bodily shame and anxieties that come with it. For me, sleepovers created an irreproducible pressure-cooker environment that felt boundary-pushing and formative. I have never seen this fixture of the American coming- of-age experience shown on screen in a non-cartoonish way, and I wanted to capture this raucous and intimate setting with fly on the wall realism, vulnerability and care. The film is a personal one. I made this film with my two younger sisters Chase Sui Wonders and Grace Sui, who star as the film’s leads.
PRODUCTION/DISTRIBUTION
PRODUCTION 1: MIRMADE – Miranda Kahn
311 E 72nd Street
10021, New York, United States of America
Tel. 1 5164452077
info@mirmadethat.com
@mirmade_productions
PRODUCTION 2: Big Buddha Pictures – Tony Yang
171 West 131st Street, Unit 315
NY 10027, New York
PRESS OFFICE: Miranda Kahn – MIRMADE
311 E 72nd Street
10021, New York, United States of America
Tel. 1 5164452077
mir@mirmadethat.com
@mirmade_productions
