For her first function filmThe filmmaker Sierra Falconer Chose to combine both something comfortable (stories built on the site of many of her happiest childhood memories, Green Lake in the Grand Traverse County, Michigan) and slightly more bold (spins the story as an anthology, including four loosely connected stories).
The result is “Sunfish (& other stories at Green Lake)”, the rare anthology that not only serves its structure but uses it for wonderful effect. As our David Ehrlich wrote about the movie When It Premiered at Sundance This Year, “Where Most Anthologies Spotlight Each of the Stories with the Mono-Focus of a Slide Project, Falcon’s Attention Drifts with the Warm Indifference of a Roving Sunbeam. Together by a shared sense of place – and by the emergent realization that they are all just passing through it – that it is like they are all neatly interwoven toether, especialy when they fight to get in touch with each other. ”
After his Sundance debut, the film was picked up by Caryn Coleman’s The Future of Film is female and will meet theaters next month as part of Fofif’s volatile distribution arm. Falconer’s film follows Hannah Peterson’s “candidates”, A similar revealing first feature that Coleman smartly unbuttoned and built a customized distribution plan around.
According to its official synopsis, the movie “A boring, album of life drama (who) follows the intertwined lives around Green Lake as a girl, Lu (Maren Heary) learns to sail, a boy, Jun (Jim Kaplan) for the first chair, two sisters, Blue Jay (Tenley Kellog.” The film, and Falconer and Grant Ellison serve as producers.
As Coleman explained in an official statement, “to be able to support truly independent films, as Sierra FalconerThe Stellar debut function is exactly why we started a distribution branch in the future of film is female. ‘Sunfish’ is a thought -provoking, beautiful amalgam of four stories that take place at the same time over a summer in Michigan; Each monumental in its own way. “
When he put together the trailer for the film, Falconer was characteristic of how to best sell their stories. “Approaching the trailer was difficult because of the film’s structure, it’s an anthology,” Falcon told Indieview. “I didn’t want it to feel like a mini-anhology in the trailer, so what was trying to put together was like a collage of the whole movie and put people in the same space as much as possible. I hope people get an idea of the feeling of the lake, the tone of the movie, the character. It’s not a very plot-tung trailer, but I think the tone is very exact to
The future of film is female will release the film in theaters across the United States, which starts on Friday 12 September at the IFC Center in New York. Additional cities will be added in the following weeks, including Los Angeles and a planned tour through the Midwest.
Check out the first trailer and poster for “Sunfish (& other stories on Green Lake)”, both indieview -exclusive, below.
