Small Talk Short Film
Small Talk Short Film
Small Talk Short Film
Small Talk Short Film
Small Talk Short Film
Love, Coffee & Internet
Love, Coffee & Internet
Love, Coffee & Internet
Love, Coffee & Internet
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Small Talk Short Film
Love, Coffee & Internet
Love, Coffee & Internet
Love, Coffee & Internet
Love, Coffee & Internet
Love, Coffee & Internet
What happens you feel lonely and connecting with other people seems imposible?
In a world where we are so busy with our lives, work and careers, loneliness has become a reality in pretty much everyone’s life. In Small Talk we will see how Connor and Lucia using an online service decide to have a blind date on Christmas Eve as their last resort to find that magical connection that makes life worth living.
From the producer of “Datin’ Marvin” (Cannes Short Film Corner 2015), Monica Palmieri, brings you Small Talk, a story about two very lonely people, Connor, an awkward rumbling guy and Lucia, a sarcastic, stiff know it all.
The script is based on a play by known writer Steven Simoncic and it was directed by Monica as a stage reading for the Flores Play Festival for the Around the Block Company, last summer in New York City. The audience's reaction was so positive and engaging that along with the writer and lead actress, they decided to bring it to life once again but as a short film.
Small Talk's crew is a team of Latina women who are fiercely working in the film industry in New York. They all come from different backgrounds, Guatemala, Spain and Cuba, but have immigrated to New York with the same purpose: continue to make films about human connections or the inability to form one. Each one bringing to the table a different vision and experience in storytelling that we have brought from our countries.
The team is also composed by amazing talented men without them, this film would have never seen the light of day.
We want to make this film our first step into forming a Collective of Young Women Filmmakers of diverse backgrounds. This film is an invitation to build this initiative and show what we can create together.
Monica has been in a passionate relationship with filmmaking for the past 10 years of her life.
Mónica has directed and produced short films "Small Talk", "Complete Sentences" and "Black Hole" (Official Selection Icaro International Film Festival and Corto Circuito Short Film Festival ). She has also directed the stage readings of "Late Bloomers", "Space Behind Your Heart (Small Talk)", "Office Hours" and " for the Flores Play Festival in New York .
Mónica became part of the Labyrinth Theatre Company Workshop Ensemble, where she directed her first on-stage show "I Just Want To Look Good Naked" in 2012.
Palmieri has produced short films "Datin Marvin" which will have it's world premier at the 68 Cannes Film Festival 2015,"Locked in You", "Underwater", "Meet Me Here" and "Derailing" in which she also played the lead. Monica worked as Line Producer alongside award winning director Deborah Kampmeier for feature film "Split". She has worked as Production Manager for "MTV Untitled Fashion Pilot" and Lorelei Taron and soccer player Falcao's music video "No me rendire" . She was Assistant Director for Wu-Tang Clan 's documentary promo video.
More about Monica: www.monicapalmieri.com
Gigi is a DP who studied cinematography at the Art Institute ISA in Havana. With a photography background, she has worked as still photographer for feature films and publicity, as photographer for theaters magazines and as cinematographer for short films, music videos, and documentaries back in Cuba. Since last year she has been mostly involved as DP in the process of two feature documentaries: “Me, Japanese”, winner of the 2015 WaveMaker Grant, supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; and “Garage Rendevouz” about the recently demolition of the oldest flea market in New York city. Originally from Cuba, she is now based in New York. She completed the fellowship program at the Flaherty Seminar. She attended documentaries studies at NYU Film School, cinematography workshops at EICTV Film School San Antonio de los Baños and has past studies in Dramaturgy.
More about Gilliam: www.gigidelatorre.com
Steven Simoncic’s plays have received productions, readings and workshops at The Goodman, Steppenwolf, Victory Gardens, The Second City, Pegasus Players, The Baruch Center for the Performing Arts, Stageplays Theatre, and The Soho Theatre in London. Steven’s play, Once Upon a Time in Detroit, was selected as a semi-finalist for the 2013 Eugene O’Neill Theater
Center’s National Playwrights Conference and Heat Wave was recently selected for Steppenwolf Theatre’s 2015 Garage Rep season. Steven recently completed critically acclaimed productions of Broken Fences with Ballybeg in New York and 16th Street in Chicago, which was featured in The Chicago Tribune’s “Best of 2013.”
Jakob von Eichel is a New York actor of film, television and stage. He was born in Canada, raised in Washington DC with a German father and a Canadian mother, but has made New York his home for the last decade. He is known primarily for his roles as accented criminals on such classics as Law and Order, Person of Interest, The Americans, White Collar and Blacklist withmore recent and less sinister work on HBO’s Doll & Em. This is, however, his very first time on film playing a nice “normal guy”, a part closer to how he hopes the world actually sees him. He is very excited to be working on such wonderfully romantic material with such a talented team of artists and is greatly relieved to not carry a gun or speak a Slavic tongue.
Idalmis is a cuban actress that recently moved to New York. In her natal Havana she has been part of important cuban films and has worked with well know film, tv and theater directors.
Her Film credits include: "Los Dioses Rotos", "Conducta" (Goya award nominee) from director Ernesto Daranas and "Larga Distancia" by Esteban Insausti.
In New York she is a cast member of Repertorio Español were she has been performing for the past year in productions like "Aire Frío", "El Loco Por Fuerza " y "Hierba Mala Nunca Muere". Her theatre credits also include several plays in Havana and Germany, like "Blue Orange", "Zement" and "Our Town".
She has been a producing partner and assistant to british director Stephen Bayly in several productions in Havana.
In 2013 Idalmis worked as assistant director to Ernesto Daranas for the teaser of his upcoming feature film.