Here's to the Future! (2014)
On a late-summer Sunday in 2011, a female director gathers a team of filmmakers, writers, musicians, artists, critics, and friends in an apartment to recreate a scene from Michael Curtiz's Depression-era drama The Cabin in the Cotton. Over plates of pasta and glasses of red wine, a round robin of non-professional actors take turns performing the same scene, again and again, In different permutations. With a freedom Influenced by pre--Code Hollywood, cameras, phones, and laptops are scattered around & set at almost every possible angle, documenting the action both in front of and behind the camera as it unfolds, from rehearsals to equipment adjustments to the banter between takes. An intimate. playful, and spontaneous look Into the collaborative cinematic process emerges. a snapshot of the filmmaker's perennial struggle to capture fleeting moments before the day (and light) slip away.
Director: Gina Telaroli
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Gina Telaroli as |
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Daniel Kasman as |
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John Budge as |
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Begonia Colomar as |
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Kendra Mylnechuk as |
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Michael Lieberman as |
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David Phelps as |
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Eric Phillips-Horst as |
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Tyler Potter as |
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Alexis Powell as |
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Susie Simpson as |
| Directing | Gina Telaroli | Director |
| Production | C. Mason Wells | Producer |
| Crew | Eric Phillips-Horst | Cinematography |
| Editing | Gina Telaroli | Editor |
