Post by Admin on Feb 12, 2022 5:05:14 GMT
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Searchlight has picked up writer-director Molly Gillis’ short film Plaisir, which premiered at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival, as part of its Searchlight Shorts program.
The film, which Gillis is currently developing as a feature, tells the story of a lonely American who faces unrequited love on a farm commune in the south of France. It won Aspen Shortsfest’s prizes for Best Student Film and Best Youth Jury Film, and Best Narrative Student Short at IndyShorts, also screening at the Champs Élysées Film Festival, the Maryland Film Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival, Inside Out Toronto, OUTFest, the Sidewalk Film Festival, HollyShorts, deadCenter and the Whistler Film Festival, and qualifying for Oscar eligibility in its time on the circuit.
Tara Sheffer produced Plaisir with Isabelle Mecattaf and Ashley Deckman. Gillis, who was a 2019 Spike Lee Production Fund recipient and that same year received the Princess Grace Foundation’s Cary Grant Film Honor, is represented by Good Fear Content. Her film can be viewed here.
Searchlight has picked up writer-director Molly Gillis’ short film Plaisir, which premiered at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival, as part of its Searchlight Shorts program.
The film, which Gillis is currently developing as a feature, tells the story of a lonely American who faces unrequited love on a farm commune in the south of France. It won Aspen Shortsfest’s prizes for Best Student Film and Best Youth Jury Film, and Best Narrative Student Short at IndyShorts, also screening at the Champs Élysées Film Festival, the Maryland Film Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival, Inside Out Toronto, OUTFest, the Sidewalk Film Festival, HollyShorts, deadCenter and the Whistler Film Festival, and qualifying for Oscar eligibility in its time on the circuit.
Tara Sheffer produced Plaisir with Isabelle Mecattaf and Ashley Deckman. Gillis, who was a 2019 Spike Lee Production Fund recipient and that same year received the Princess Grace Foundation’s Cary Grant Film Honor, is represented by Good Fear Content. Her film can be viewed here.