Country: USA
Year: 2015
Duration: 88'
After a brief stay in prison which ended on Christmas Eve, Sin-Dee Rella wants to find out what happened to Chester, her pimp, who she still loves. It seems the man didn’t lose any time and word has it he has shacked up with a blond. Sin-Dee Rella is accompanied in her search by her friend and heart-of-gold colleague Alexandra, who intends to stick by her during this rousing, hilarious and giddy odyssey through the streets of sunny, crazy Los Angeles.
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
“The iPhone 5S had recently come out with its better camera. So we started thinking about how the iPhone could help us. We realized it could be good for shooting with first-time actors because it wouldn’t intimidate them and the extras that we were grabbing off the street. It allowed us to shoot clandestinely. […] But I wanted to still make this film extremely cinematic, so we shot with anamorphic lenses. […] Nobody else had shot like this.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, montaggio/director, film editing
Sean Baker
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch
fotografia/cinematography
Sean Baker, Radium Cheung
costumi/costume design
Shih-Ching Tsou
musica/music
Matthew Smith
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Kiki Kitana Rodriguez (Sin-Dee Rella), Mya Taylor (Alexandra), Karren Karagulian (Razmik), Mickey O’Hagan (Dinah), Alla Tumanian (Ashken), James Ransone (Chester), Luiza Nersisyan (Yeva), Arsen Grigoryan (Karo)
produttori/producers
Sean Baker, Karrie Cox, Marcus Cox, Darren Dean, Shih-Ching Tsou
produzione/production
Duplass Brothers Productions, Through Films
coproduttori/coproducers
Chris Bergoch, Radium Cheung, Kevin Chinoy, Francesca Silvestri
contatti/contacts
Magnolia Pictures
Scott Veltri
Tel: +1 212 92 46 701
SVeltri@magpictures.com
www.magpictures.com
Sean Baker
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch
fotografia/cinematography
Sean Baker, Radium Cheung
costumi/costume design
Shih-Ching Tsou
musica/music
Matthew Smith
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Kiki Kitana Rodriguez (Sin-Dee Rella), Mya Taylor (Alexandra), Karren Karagulian (Razmik), Mickey O’Hagan (Dinah), Alla Tumanian (Ashken), James Ransone (Chester), Luiza Nersisyan (Yeva), Arsen Grigoryan (Karo)
produttori/producers
Sean Baker, Karrie Cox, Marcus Cox, Darren Dean, Shih-Ching Tsou
produzione/production
Duplass Brothers Productions, Through Films
coproduttori/coproducers
Chris Bergoch, Radium Cheung, Kevin Chinoy, Francesca Silvestri
contatti/contacts
Magnolia Pictures
Scott Veltri
Tel: +1 212 92 46 701
SVeltri@magpictures.com
www.magpictures.com
