Magic Hour
Feature Film
NEW YORK CITY PREMIERE
1 hr 36 mins ▪︎ English
Harriet, a once-promising filmmaker, is stuck in the suburbs of New Jersey. Alienated from her cheating husband and spurned by her teenage daughter, she secretly enrolls in film school. She leads a double life and loves the grueling yet exhilarating world of student filmmaking. But, when she gets fired off her own film and found out by her daughter, Harriet must decide if her life’s ambition is pure folly or a dream worth saving.
Cast
Miriam Shor, Austin Pendleton, Josh Stamberg, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Cameron Morton, Delissa Reynolds, Anna Suzuki, Renee Taylor, Louis Mustillo
Director Biography
Jacqueline Christy is a writer, director, and founder of Access Theater. She received her MFA from the NYU Graduate Film Program at Tisch and received grants from the NYC Women's Fund, the NY State Council on the Arts, the Hollywood Foreign Press grant, and the Sloan Foundation.
Through Access Theater’s 33-year history, she has produced hundreds of plays, including The Killing Act starring Peter Dinklage, written and directed by Tom McCarthy; Aasif Mandvi’s Sakina’s Restaurant; Stephen Belber’s Tape; and Bedlam’s acclaimed production of Saint Joan.
She was Assistant Director of the feature films Radium Girls and Equity and the short film Jungle, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. She was Assistant Director of the short film Fry Day, which premiered at SXSW.
Her directorial film work includes short films Rehearsal (Austin Film Festival), Other People (St Louis International Film Festival), and The Dependents (LA Shorts International Film Festival). Christy was recently selected by SHOOT magazine for their New Directors Showcase.
Magic Hour, starring Miriam Shor, Sendhil Ramamurthy, and Austin Pendleton, is her feature debut.
Shorty Shorts screening before this Feature Film:
Tantrum Tent
World Premiere
3 minutes 59 seconds ▪︎ English
Being an adult is hard. Sometimes you just need to throw a tantrum.
The Substance…For Men
World Premiere
2 minutes 43 seconds▪︎ English
A short form parody of The Substance.
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