UTAH/REGIONAL PREMIERE
SCREENING TIME & DATE: Monday, September 9th @ 9:00 PM
SYNOPSIS: A gruesome, grisly meditation on the potential for cruelty, exploitation, and violence inherent in surveillance and spectatorship. Gritty and lean in visual style and economical in narrative—which brusquely alternates between a vaguely menacing “before” and a graphically terrifying “after”—Finale follows two young women working a lonely night shift at a gas station on a remote country road, where they soon discover that the convenience store security cameras aren’t the only eyes watching their every move.
AWARDS NOMINATIONS (6): Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Costumes, Best Makeup
DIRECTOR: Søren Juul Petersen
CAST: Anne Bergeldt, Damon Younger, Karin Michelsen
RATINGS GUIDE: Strong Violence, Nudity
Denmark / 2018 / 1 hour, 39 minutes
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Søren Juul Petersen’s directorial debut is a gruesome, grisly meditation on the potential for cruelty, exploitation, and violence inherent in surveillance and spectatorship. Gritty and lean in visual style and economical in narrative—which brusquely alternates between a vaguely menacing “before” and a graphically terrifying “after”—Finale follows two young women working a lonely night shift at a gas station on a remote country road, where they soon discover that the convenience store security cameras aren’t the only eyes watching their every move.
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STRAY (AUSTRALIA)
UTAH PREMIERE
SYNOPSIS: After three long years away, a crippled World War II soldier excitedly returns home to his wife, only to discover her life now revolves around a sinister stray cat.
DIRECTOR: Dean W Law
RATINGS GUIDE: Sensuality, Nudity, Adult Content
AWARDS NOMINATIONS (2): Best Actress – Short, Best Cinematography – Short
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Dean W Law is an emerging Australian director of sexually charged genre cinema, as well as one half of a husband and wife writing team with Brazilian-American writer, Katherine Chediak Putnam. The couple’s films attempt to distill the struggle between the masculine and the feminine into tightly plotted pulp entertainment. Dean teaches at Griffith Film School in Australia, and has created content for national and international brands including Disney Theatrical and the University of Queensland.
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