Acting Class
2026 · 10m · USA
Directed by Solange Sai
Genres: documentary
Tones: contemplative, tender
A verite doc inside a NYC acting class, watching students grind through musical solos and dramatic scenes under the eye of a wildly-committed teacher. Vulnerability as a renewable resource.
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An observational doc about people getting paid to cry on cue, made by one person doing every job alone. The structural irony is almost too perfect to bear.
Sai writing, shooting, and editing alone gives this its sketchbook intimacy, and a black-and-white verite portrait of a NYC acting class working through tears and musical solos is Wiseman in miniature done right. Vulnerability as renewable resource — I'm in.
Single-author B&W verite inside a NYC acting studio, shot-from-the-hip — the sketchbook-not-deliverable energy and shaky proximity makes the vulnerability stakes feel earned. Wiseman in miniature is a high bar but the setup justifies the ambition.