31° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
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NEON HEARTACHE

NEON HEARTACHE
by Danielle Lessovitz
Country: USA
Year: 2013
Duration: 8'


Eden is left at home alone when her older brother goes out. She is a bit bored and the temptation to rummage among her brother’s things becomes irresistible: after all, she knows what she’s searching for. When Sean returns home, he finds her dressed in his wrestling uniform as she dances with a rather awkward girl, their next-door-neighbor. He chases her and tries to take his helmet back, she kicks him, he pins her, partly in play and partly for real. She laughs and he’s on top of her in a game that suddenly has something adult about it.

Biography

film director

Danielle Lessovitz

Danielle Lessovitz (Kansas City, KS, USA) graduated with a major in documentary film and sound design for installation and has been a scholarship at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York to study directing. In 2009, she directed her first short, Batteries, which was screened at the film festivals in Philadelphia and Tallgrass, Kansas. Her third short, The Earthquake, has been screened at 30th Torino Film Festival, and has received a New Filmmaker Award from the Philadelphia Jewish Film Society and Best Heartland short at the Kansas City Film Festival. Port Authority is her first feature film.

FILMOGRAFIA

Repetitive Act (cm, 2008), The Fish (cm, 2008), Batteries (cm, 2009), The Earthquake (2012), Neon Heartache (cm, 2013), The Anatomy of Injury (cm, 2013), Port Authority (2019).

Cast

& Credits

REGIA, SCENEGGIATURA
Danielle Lessovitz
FOTOGRAFIA
Chananun Chrotrungroj
SCENOGRAFIA
Lindsey Martin
SUONO
David Grinbaum
INTERPRETI E PERSONAGGI
Eden Einhorn (Eden), Sean Dibona (Luke), Madeline McMurphy (la vicina/neighbor)
PRODUTTORI
Jess Fuerst, Danielle Lessovitz
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