Untitled Movie
2023 · 10m · USA
Directed by Annie Brennen
A twenty-something filmmaker named Zoë mounts a movie about her attraction to another woman while still dating a man, hitting up her parents for the funding.
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The scouts
Coming-out shorts are a glutted market — Brennen's move is to make hers a Trojan horse inside a meta filmmaking comedy. The premise is funnier than the premise of most features.
Meta-funding-the-coming-out-film is a well-trafficked premise now, and the early-Lena-Dunham comparison cuts both ways. Comedy chops will decide it.
A meta comedy where making the film IS the act of figuring out the filmmaker's sexuality — and asking her parents to fund it — is honest in a way most autofiction shorts aren't. The braided premise has spine.
Reviews
A layered meta comedy, an exploration of sexuality and the creative process.