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Jolly Friends Forever More

– by Kaz Phillips Safer

    1. Fiction

    2. Date Awarded: 2011

    3. Directors(s): Kaz Phillips Safer

    1. Producer(s): Christina D. King

    2. Company Credit: Cat Bird Pictures

    3. Location: Bay Ridge

    1. Film Status: Completed

    2. URL: » Catbird Pictures Site

About the Film:

In Jolly Friends Forever More, the boundary between imagination and hallucination is tested when a homeless man is befriended by a mysterious little girl that seems able to appear and disappear at will.

About the Filmmakers:

Kaz is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker & video designer. She studied writing at Princeton University while also taking select filmmaking courses at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.  She is the video artist in residence for internationally acclaimed NYC-based dance theater company Witness Relocation. Her video work has been presented in France, Denmark, Poland, Russia, Australia and across the United States. In 2009 she was accepted into the American Film Institute’s Directing Workshop for Women where she developed and directed original HD short, Megafauna. The film went on to win AFI’s Jean Picker Firstenberg Award for Excellence and was released by IndiePix in October 2010. Kaz is currently developing several feature scripts, one of which is the recipient of a 2010 Jerome Foundation Development Grant. Kaz’s Reach Film Fellowship mentor, Karin Chien, has produced eight feature-length films, including Circumstance (2011), The Exploding Girl (2009), and The Motel (2005), which have won over 75 festival awards, premiered at Sundance and Berlin, and have been distributed internationally. Kaz Phillips Safer is a guest blogger for the Cinereach blog. Her posts include: Kaz Phillips Safer Stops Over-Explaining and Learns to Love Child Actors, and Rolling with the Punches in Indie Film.