With several of these projects landing on our 2018 Most Anticipated American indie films list, this year's U.S. Narrative Comp appears to be a solid slate...
Ken Jacobs' SEEKING THE MONKEY KING, Alexis Dos Santos' Random Strangers and the Cannes winning Nash Edgerton's BEAR are part of the shorts program which this year is comprised of 64 films selected from a whopping 7,675 submissions.
I just loved insects; I would pick anything up. So I knew that interested me, but I knew I didn’t particularly want to be a scientist. I didn’t want to focus too minutely on one particular thing, which is sort of the way academia works these days. So, when I was 14 I saw David Attenborough’s PRIVATE LIFE OF PLANTS, and it was a eureka moment for me, and I realized “I’m meant to make movies about this!