Miranda July
Miranda July is another director who is going to be have her movie on show at the BFI London Film Festival with new project The Future.
July is a talent with many stings to her bow as she acts as well as being a writer and a musician.
But it is her movie career that we are interested in and she kicked that off in the mid nineties with a series of shorts such as I Started Out With Nothing and I Still Have Most of It Left,A Shape Called Horse and Atlanta.
With her work in shorts she started grabbing people's attention as an indie filmmaker to keep an eye on.
But it wasn't until 2005 that she made her directorial debut Me and You and Everyone We Know - this came after winning a slot in a Sundance workshop.
Me and You and Everyone We Know was also a project that she wrote and starred in alongside John Hawkes and Miles Thompson.
The offbeat movie charmed and won over audiences on the festival circuit that year and the movie went on to win the Camera d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Six years later she has returned with her second directorial effort, another project that she was written and stars in.
Sophie and Jason are strange the way all couples are strange when they’re alone. They live in a small LA apartment, have jobs they hate, and in one month they’ll adopt a stray cat named Paw Paw. Like a newborn baby, he’ll need around-the-clock care - he may die in six months, or it may take five years.
Despite their good intentions, Sophie and Jason are terrified of their looming loss of freedom. So with just one month left, they quit their jobs, and the Internet, to pursue their dreams - Sophie wants to create a dance, Jason wants simply to be guided by fate.
But as the month slips away, Sophie becomes increasingly, humiliatingly paralysed. In a moment of desperation, she calls a stranger, Marshall - a square, fifty-year-old man who lives in the Valley. In his suburban world she doesn’t have to be herself; as long as she stays there, she’ll never have to try (and fail) again.
Living in two terrifyingly vacant and different realities, Sophie and Jason must reunite with time, space and their own souls in order to come home.
July returned to the Sundance Festival earlier this year to premiere the movie before it was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival.
And next week will give UK audiences a chance to catch the movie.
The BFI London Film Festival runs 12 - 27 October.
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