#40. HERE
Director: Braden King
Writer(s): Dani Valent and King
Producers: Parts and Labor’s Jay Van Hoy and Lars Knudsen
Distributor: Rights Available.
The Gist: Will Shepard (Foster) is an American satellite-mapping engineer contracted to create a new, more accurate survey of the country of Armenia. Within the industry, his solitary work – land-surveying satellite images to check for accuracy and resolve anomalies – is called “ground-truthing”. He’s been doing it on his own, for years, all over the world, but on this trip, his measurements are not adding up… (more)
Cast: Lubna Azabal and Ben Foster.
List Worthy Reasons…: We’ve been waiting for HERE to debut for some time now (we listed it at #55 last year) and were glad to see that the film has mutated into various shapes and forms. The fest are calling this “an unlikely love story, HERE is also a cerebral, self-reflexive road movie that arrives at a fascinating intersection of forms.” Sign me up for this frequency.
Release Date/Status?: Sundance Film Festival premiere in the U.S Dramatic Competition this month.
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