Eight independent films in the final stages of editing have been selected for the U.S. in Progress co-production forum at Tauron American Film Festival in Wrocław, Poland. Its protagonist appears to have the perfect life: she has just landed her first big film job as a production designer, is training for a marathon and her husband is about to finish rehab. But then she finds out she has stage two breast cancer.
Juggling career, family, treatment and her husband’s fragile sobriety, she must decide what kind of life she wants to live after cancer and with whom – if there is an after cancer. Still, she handles it all with tongue firmly in cheek. After all, if we’re not laughing, what’s the point of anything?
It’s produced by Whitewater Films and co-produced by Balcony 9 and Sweetheart Entertainment. Cancer is fucking terrifying. It is also awkward, messy, funny, sexual and surreal.” In “Outside of Cleveland,” Colin West follows Max (played by Alex Wolff) who returns to his childhood home when his parents (Jim Gaffigan and Sarah Wayne Callies) decide to sell it.
But when he falls asleep, he wakes up as a teenager in 2009. The film is produced by Brain Scratch Productions, 1515 Films and Sub_Sequential Pictures. Sleeping in my old bedroom, I felt the distance between the 18-year-old kid I used to be and the person I’d become,” says West.
We ended up shooting the film in Ohio, too, so the story mirrored my own journey making it: a love letter and a farewell.” He adds: “It’s about the lives we didn’t live and making peace with the one we’re living right now.” Kristen Buckles Cantrell’s “Swim Fishy” is about a woman who, after learning she’s unexpectedly pregnant, hits the road with her estranged sister to redefine what motherhood means to her. The film is produced by 2801 Productions and co-produced by Bentonville Studios, Route 88 Films, and Billy Mumphry and Sons Films. It shadows Li, who visits New York for the first time.
His son, Chinese architect Kun, is reluctant to see him. But not Kun’s boyfriend Michael. The film marks the very first role outside of China for Li Cong Xi, known for “An Elephant Sitting Still,” “The Sun Also Rises” and “Devils on the Doorstep.” “This is a film about the possibilities and limits of identity.
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