Event

A NIGHT WITH ELIZA HITTMAN

Eliza Hittman is an award-winning filmmaker, born and based in New York City. She received an MFA from CalArts, School of Film / Video (2010). Her critically acclaimed debut feature film It Felt Like Love premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2013. It also screened at MoMA, Viennale, London Film Festival BFI, Melbourne and more. Her short film Forever's Gonna Start Tonight was on Indiewire's list of "the Best of the Best" at Sundance in 2011. She was recently named one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Indie Film. She teaches graduate level film directing at Columbia University, School of the Arts.
IT FELT LIKE LOVE
During an uneventful summer in Brooklyn, lonely Lila develops an unhealthy fixation on an older thug. Deluded and awkward in her romantic pursuit, she soon finds herself in a dangerously vulnerable situation.
Director's Statement:
With "It Felt Like Love", I wanted to show outtakes from childhood: the lonely moments, the surges of false confidence, and small humiliating details that are often buried in our memories.
USA, 2013, 82 min, Unrated, DCP | Director: Eliza Hittman | Sundance 2013 | International Film Festival Rotterdam 2013 | BAMcinemaFEST 2013 | London Film Festival BFI 2013 | Viennale 2013
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FOREVER'S GONNA START TONIGHT
Sonya, a 17-year-old Russian immigrant, lives in a claustrophobic Brooklyn apartment with her dad and his ever-growing menagerie of cats. When the landlady threatens to evict them, Sonya ventures out for a night she will never forget.
USA, 2011, 16 min, Unrated, English and Russian with English subtitles | Director: Eliza Hittman | Sundance 2011 | BAMcinemaFEST 2011