SYNOPSIS
Through a series of sometimes comic and sometimes bitter vignettes, the lives of eight strangers collide. From a sidewalk café, to a nightclub, to the steps of a TriBeCa loft, chance and coincidence conspire to weave eight of the eight million stories in the naked city into one.
WINNER
Grand Marnier Foundation Film Fellowship, New York Film Festival
Best Film of the Night, Columbia University Film Festival
SELECT FESTIVALS
Bermuda International Film Festival, Film Appreciation Series
Denver International Film Festival
Film Society of Lincoln Center, Independents Night, Walter Reade Theater, New York
Florence Women’s Film Festival, Italy
Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, Student Competition
Hollywood Shorts Women in Filmmaking Festival
Lake Placid Film Forum
Newport Beach Film Festival
Palm Springs International Festival of Festivals
Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema
San Francisco Independent Film Festival
Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Seattle International Film Festival
Stony Brook Film Festival, Long Island
Waterfront Film Festival, Saugatuck, Michigan
SYNOPSIS
Fourteen-year-old Maggie is stuck in the backseat of her deadbeat dad’s life of brassy blondes and blowups. Meanwhile, Maggie just wants to tune it all out. But out on the road, everything will change.
Distributed by Atom Films
AWARDS
Princess Grace Award Nominee
SELECT FESTIVALS
CMJ Film Festival, New York
Los Angeles Independent Film Festival
New Orleans Film Festival
Columbia University Film Festival
Produced by Sarah Bassine, Ari Gold’s student-Oscar-winning short “Helicopter,” about his mother’s death in a helicopter crash that killed rock music promoter Bill Graham, is currently being expanded into a feature film.
AWARDS
Oscar, Student Academy Awards
Grand Jury Prize, Aix-en-Provence International Short Film Festival, France
Jury Award, Reykjavik Short Film Festival, Iceland
Special Jury Award, Moab Film Festival, Utah
Special Jury Award, New Orleans Film Festival
Best Film/Best Director & New York Magazine Audience Award, NYU First Run Film Festival
Best International Short Film, Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, Brazil
Best Short Film, SXSW Film Festival
Best Short Film (Experimental), USA Film Festival, Dallas, Texas
Best Short Film, Valley Film Festival, San Fernando Valley, California
Best Short Film (Student), Woodstock Film Festival
SELECT FESTIVALS
American Cinematheque, Los Angeles
Austin Film Festival
La Ciotat, France
Cinéma du Nouveau Monde, Québec
Florida Film Festival
GenArt Film Festival, New York
Geneva Cinema Tout Ecran, Switzerland
FilmFest Hamburg, Germany
Hamptons International Film Festival
Los Angeles Film Festival
Oslo International Film Festival, Norway
Palm Springs Short Film Festival
Rotterdam International Film Festival
International Film Festival St. Petersburg, Russia
Sundance Film Festival, Utah
Waterfront Film Festival, Saugatuck, Michigan
