WHEN LAST SEEN
Director/Screenwriter: Donna DiNovelli
Director of Photography: Tatiana Stopovskaya
Production Design: Nadja Antic
Editor: Alex Liu
Music: Pat Irwin
Creative Producer: Samantha Fairnella
Assistant Director: Marella Martin Koch
2nd Assistant Director & Choreographer: Thalia Ranjbar
Set Decorator: Jim Osman
Art Director: Kat Murphy
Amelia Palmer: Production Sound Mixer

SYNOPSIS
WHEN LAST SEEN, an updating of the Demeter and Persephone myth, focuses on a young woman gone missing who uses the official wording of a Missing Persons form to call attention to the multitudes like her. The root cellar, where Persephone is held captive, holds much more than herbs and jars of preserves. At first, WHEN LAST SEEN appears to be a police procedural but ultimately becomes a search party for those taken from the earth.

CAST:
Starring Rachel Jett as Demeter and Ashnah Strongheart as Persephone
With: Sonya Grey, Danielle Dinovelli- Lang, Oscar Dinovelli, Miranda Holliday, Margaret Langcaster, Journeya, Michelle Louise Bicking, Anastasia Brady, Danielle Deeble, Gloria Dover, Antonia Edwards, Laura Elena Padilla, Holly Richmond, Phoenix Rothan, Jett Rothan, Ren Dara Santiago, Maya Sheppard, Greta Watrous,The New York Alliance Drumline

MADELINE’S MADELINE
Director/Screenwriter: Josephine Decker

Cast: Helena Howard, Molly Parker, Miranda July, Okwui Okpokwasili, Felipe Bonila, Lisa Tharps

Screened at: Sundance Film Festival, 2018; The Berlinale and BAM CinemaFest.
Distributed by: Oscilloscope Laboratories

Oscilloscope Page here
Trailer here

Madeline (Helena Howard) is dediated to her theatre workshop. Much to the worry of her protective mother (Miranda July), she has become an integral part of a prestigious, progressive, and experimental theatre troupe in the city, one that emphasizes movement, commitment, and an intense focus on authenticity. When the workshop’s ambitious theatre director (Molly Parker) pushes teenage Madeline to weave her troubled history and rich interior world into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur in surprising and potentially destructive ways, spiraling out of the safe rehearsal space and into her everyday interactions.

“…an experimental movie with the emotional tug of a mainstream hit, a fragmented coming-of-age drama…truly new and ineffable of its time. This is one of the boldest and most invigorating American films of the 21st century…” – David Ehrlich, IndieWire

“…a passionate emotional experience, a conjoined vision of intimate and public life, a reinvention of the very elements of filmmaking. It’s also, incidentally, a decisive repudiation of one of the most enduring film-critical shibboleths: that straightforward storytelling is antithetical to directorial originality…” -Richard Brody, The New Yorker

STAG
A short film 

SYNOPSIS
In the summer of 1963, fifteen-year-old tomboy Francesca (Sarah Steele, The Humans, The Good Wife, Please Give, and Girls) investigates the mysterious comings and goings in the family basement, the off-limits domain of her father (Peter Rini, Orange is the New Black). Her mother (Rachel Jett, The Body Artist) leads her to believe that the neighborhood men gather there on Fridays to play cards. The mystery deepens as she encounters locked doors and closed curtains. In a bold move, she hides out in the basement. What she witnesses there will change her vision forever.

Watch the trailer