Los Angeles Film Festival

Upstate

(USA, 2010, 80 mins, HDCAM - Frame Rate 23.98)

World Premiere

Executive Producer: Jennifer Fox
Producer: Melanie Pimentel
Screenwriter: Katherine Nolfi
Cinematographer: Brian Feeney
Editors: Ben Brown, Andrew Luis, Katherine Nolfi
Cast: Iracel Rivero, Max Arnaud, Suzan Mikiel Kennedy

Coping with the death of her mother, Liz decides to break her self-imposed isolation by visiting Steve, an old friend she has not seen in years who is now married and living in rural New York State. Liz and Steve’s reunion quickly grows complicated as long buried emotions reignite. This does not escape the attention of Sylvia, Steve’s wife, who must protect her marriage from the sparks flying between her husband and Liz.

The traditions of Shaker culture, the novel treasures of an antique shop, the Americana of a county fair, the steadfastness of the lush Catskill Mountains: all these elements inform Liz’s quest to rediscover herself. Katherine Nolfi and Andrew Luis’ portrait of the ever-shifting dynamics of personal relationships, past and present, plays out as a sun-dappled fever dream, its idyllic setting putting everyone’s personal desire in context. Over the course of a long weekend, each member of this uneasy trio must work towards a new understanding of the others, allowing the regrets of the past to give way to the possibility of change.

Jonathan Wysocki

Expected to attend: Andrew Luis, Katherine Nolfi, Iracel Rivero Suzan, Mikiel Kennedy.

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