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USA, 2006, 92 Min, Color (Adult Content, Language)
MICHIGAN PREMIERE
Director: Kat Candler
Screenwriter: Kat Candler
Producers: Kat Candler, Lorie Marsh, Stacy Schoolfield
Associate Producers: Andy Alexander, Karen Reich
Music: Christopher Case
Cinematographer: Jim Eastbum
Editor: Nevie Owens
Casting: Donise Hardy
Cast: Bryan Chafin, Glen Powell Jr., Savannah Welch, Katie Lemon, Michael Emerson, Anne Nabors, Rhett Wilkins
Website: http://www.jumpingoffbridges.com
OFFICIAL SELECTION 2006 SXSW FILM FESTIVAL
SEMI-FINALIST – SUNDANCE SCREENWRITER’S LAB
FILMMAKERS IN ATTENDANCE |
Late summer cradles the free-spirited recklessness of youth. Zak Nelson and his best friend, Eric, spend their days jumping from bridges for fun. Zak scribbles notes and pastes Polaroids of each bridge into his spiral notebook. Eric saves clippings of suicide jumpers and fantasizes about designing bridges of his own. They waste their days listening to punk rock music with their naive friend, Lindsay, and Zak's tough-as-nails girlfriend, Grove. The tight knit group escapes their everyday lives, whining parents, and schoolwork together. But, when Zak's mother commits suicide, their carefree innocence ends. A long-held family secret binds Zak into a cell of self-blame and guilt. He reaches out for comfort and counsel from Eric, but Eric knows the family's history and feels complicit in Mrs. Nelson's death, himself. Grove and Lindsay, his dad and brother all try to comfort Zak, but he continually pushes them away as he spirals into a depression. Another bridge. Another jump. Possibly Zak's last. He plunges into the water. He can't breathe. He struggles to break the surface. Zak must decide if he will shed his secret or perish.
At heart, Jumping Off Bridges explores the struggle of grief and how each of us deals with grief in strange and debilitating ways. It shows how we can get lost beneath our anger and betrayal and flounder for stability and consolation. It is a story about friendship, a story about strength and a story about finding hope.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Kat Candler moved to Austin, Texas in 1997 after graduating from FSU with a degree in creative writing. She made two short films, a 5 minute comedy, The Bathroom, about a man who laments his dead fish and a 12 minute, 16mm drama, Avenue K, about a girl who idolizes a prostitute. Kat wrote and directed the feature film, Cicadas, which went on to win the Audience Award at the 2000 Austin Heart of Film Festival. Jumping Off Bridges was a semi-finalist in the 2002 Sundance Screenwriter's Lab.
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USA, 2005, 10 Min, Color
Director: Leah Meyerhoff
Cast: Emma Galvin, Peter Corrie, Toni Meyerhoff
Website:http://Contact: www.leahmeyerhoff.com
Twitch tells the poignant story of a young girl torn between two worlds: her domestic life where she must care for her wheelchair-bound mother and her escape into the emerging world of sexuality with her eager, hormone-addled boyfriend.
SLAMDANCE GRAND JURY PRIZE WINNER
STUDENT ACADAMY AWARDS FINALIST
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