Me and You and Everyone We Know
USA | Great Britain , 2005.

Directed by: Miranda July
Script: Miranda July
Producer: Gina Kwon, Holly Becker, Peter Carlton
Cinematography: Chuy Chavez
Editing: Andrew Dickler, Charlie Ireland
Music: Mike Andrews
Cast: John Hawkes, Miranda July, Miles Thompson, Brandon Ratcliff, Carlie Westerman, Brad Henke

Format: 35mm
Running time: 93'

Synopsis
Debut feature film of the famous conceptual artist, Miranda July, the director, writer and lead role, has swept festival audiences off their feet, but also numerous juries, who have awarded it considerable number of prizes. July offers an interesting insight into human efforts to wriggle out of omnipresent isolation and coldness. Christine Jesperson is a lonely artist and an Elderly cab driver who heavily relies on her imagination to attract the objects of her attention. Richard Swersey is a recent single, shoe salesman and father of two children ready for all fantastic things the new life offers. However, when he meets Christine, who bewilders him completely, he starts to panic. Everyday problems of his seven year old son Robby, who is in a romantic, but risky Internet relationship with a stranger, or his fourteen year old son Peter teased by the neighborhood girls, are not of great help either. Music for the film was composed by genial Michael Andrews, who wrote music for the cult film 'Donnie Darko', and the songs of Spiritualized were an asset.

Awards
The film won the following awards at Cannes Film Festival 2005: Critics Week Grand Prize, Camera d’Or, Prix Regards Jeune Best Feature Film, Young Critics Award, it won Grand Prize of the Jury at Sundance 2005, and the audience awarded it at Los Angeles Film Festival. Miranda July was awarded at Philadelphia Film Festival for the best debutant.

Directors Biography
Miranda July was born in Barre, Vermont, in 1974. She is a renowned conceptual artist whose works (eg. short films 'Haysha Royko', 'The Amateurist', 'Nest of Tens', 'Getting Stronger Every Day') are shown in MOMA and Guggenheim, and she has had performances in the Kitchen and at Whitney Biennale. In 1995 she founded 4 Jackie, the distributor house for independent films of female directors. She has directed music spots and written short stories for magazines the Paris Review and the Harvard Review. The exceptional success of her feature debut, which we will see in the competition of ZFF, won her the title of ‘new voice’ of the American independent film.

Location and screening schedule: Cinema SC, Tuesday, October 18th at 22:30