COUNTRY
United States
PRODUCTION
Little Engine, Runaway Train
YEAR2023
DURATION114 min
WRITING Kelly O'Sullivan
CINEMATOGRAPHY Luke Dyra
MUSIC
Quinn Tsan
EDITION Michael Spencer Smith
CAST Keith Kupferer, Katherine Mallen Kupferer, Tara Mallen, Dolly De Leon, Hanna Dworkin
DISTRIBUTION Festival Films
INTERNATIONAL SALES Visit Films
CONTACT stefaniapiras@festival-films.com
SYNOPSIS When melancholic construction worker Dan (Keith Kupferer) finds himself drifting from his wife and daughter, he discovers community and purpose in a local theater's production of Romeo and Juliet. As the drama onstage starts to mirror his own life, he and his family are forced to confront a personal loss.
Alex Thompson
He is a writer, director and producer based in Chicago. His debut feature,
Saint Frances, premiered at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival and won the Grand Jury prize for Breakthrough Voice and the Audience Award.
FILMOGRAPHY
Rounding (feature film, 2022),
Saint Frances (feature film, 2019),
Laundry Day (short film, 2018),
What I Do (short film, 2018),
Big Bad Wolf (short film, 2018),
Irene & Marie (short film, 2015)
Kelly O’Sullivan
She is a writer, director and actor. She wrote and starred in
Saint Frances which premiered at SXSW and won a Special Jury Prize for Breakthrough Voice and the Audience Award for Narrative Feature.
Saint Frances, released by Oscilloscope Laboratories, is one of the most acclaimed independent films of 2020. Kelly received a Gotham Award nomination for Breakthrough Actor, a John Cassavetes nomination from the Independent Spirit Awards and was also named one of
Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film".
FILMOGRAPHY
Ghostlight (feature film, 2024),
My Summer Vacation (short film, 2022)
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