Country: USA
Year: 2012
Duration: 103'
Jane is twenty-one years old and has just moved to California to make a career in porn films. Her days are all alike, sharing joints with her roommates and cuddling her Chihuahua, Starlet. Then one day, she buys an old thermos at a flea market and finds ten thousand dollars hidden inside it. The thermos was sold to her by Sadie, an old widow who lives alone and who had bickered with Jane. After her initial surprise wears off, Jane becomes curious to discover what lies behind that lucky discovery. The only way to find out is to go back to Sadie, who at first is suspicious and scornful. But an unexpected friendship soon develops between the two, bringing the past back to life and revealing hidden secrets.
Biography
film director
Sean Baker
Sean Baker (New York, USA, 1971) graduated from the New York University Film School. He has written and directed the feature films Take Out (2004) and Prince of Broadway (2008), which made a name for him on the international festival circuit. This latter film won the Special Jury Prize at the 2008 Torino Film Festival, a Special Mention at the 2008 Locarno Film Festival and the Grand Jury Prize at the Los Angeles Film Festival. In 2012 he returned to the Torino Film Festival with Starlet, for which he received the Junior Jury Award at the Locarno Film Festival. With Tangerine (2015), also shown in Torino, won in many festival, included Mar del Plata, Karlovy Vary and Palm Springs. The Florida Project premiered at the Director’s Fortnight in Cannes this year.
FILMOGRAFIA
Four Letter Words (cm, 2004), Take Out (2004), Fur on the Asphalt: the Greg the Bunny Reunion Show (cm, 2005), Prince of Broadway (2008), Starlet (2012), Tangerine (2015), Snowbird (cm, 2017), The Florida Project (2017).
Declaration
film director
“I didn’t have an assistant director, crew members wore many hats, and we had only a certain percentage of control over every shooting situation... which always welcomes chaos and at the same time happy accidents that make it all worth it.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, montaggio/director, film editing
Sean Baker
sceneggiatura/screenplay Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch
fotografia/cinematography Radium Cheung
scenografia/production design Mary Yui
costumi/costume design Shih-Ching Tsou
musica/music Manual suono/sound Irin Strauss
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Dree Hemingway (Jane), Besedka Johnson (Sadie), Stella Maeve (Melissa), James Ransone (Mikey), Karren Karagulian (Arash) produttori/producers Blake Ashman-Kipervaser, Kevin Chinoy, Francesca Silvestri, Patrick Cunningham, Chris Maybach
produzione/production Freestyle Picture Company, Cre Film, Mangusta Productions
distribuzione/distribution Starlet Films, LLC
vendita all’estero/world sales Rezo Films
sceneggiatura/screenplay Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch
fotografia/cinematography Radium Cheung
scenografia/production design Mary Yui
costumi/costume design Shih-Ching Tsou
musica/music Manual suono/sound Irin Strauss
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Dree Hemingway (Jane), Besedka Johnson (Sadie), Stella Maeve (Melissa), James Ransone (Mikey), Karren Karagulian (Arash) produttori/producers Blake Ashman-Kipervaser, Kevin Chinoy, Francesca Silvestri, Patrick Cunningham, Chris Maybach
produzione/production Freestyle Picture Company, Cre Film, Mangusta Productions
distribuzione/distribution Starlet Films, LLC
vendita all’estero/world sales Rezo Films
