Florida Film Festival - Without

If you're looking for something to do this weekend or next that you wouldn't normally be able to, the Florida Film Festival is beginning. Recently, I was contacted about a movie that is being played that is "about a late teen girl grieving over the loss of her girlfriend due to cyber-bullying while having to take a job in an isolated woodland house as the caretaker for a catatonic old man."

Wanted by director Mark Jackson is slated as being a mixture of Black Swan and Repulsion by the critics. Jackson and Jessica Dimmock of Right on Red Films state that it is "inspired by real stories of anti-gay cyber bullying..." and further state "...at a time of click-for-content, diminished attention spans, Without dares to slowly meditate on some of the most urgent issues of our time."

All in all, it sounds like it will be an interesting film.

For more information on Wanted, see below or visit their page on the festival's site or on the studio's site where you can view a trailer.

Be sure to also take a look at the other films being played in the festival.

FL FILM FESTIVAL LOCATION & SHOWTIMES
Regal Winter Park Village B
Saturday, April 9th 7:30 pm
Thursday, April 14th 9:30 pm

Synopsis
In a time when the world seems too much with us, a pretty nineteen-year-old girl tumbles into loneliness when she takes a job as a caretaker for a catatonic old man on a remote wooded island with no cell signal or internet. Arriving already isolated and scarred by mysterious past events that are never fully explained, she begins a slow progression of mental and emotional disintegration as she struggles to maintain a daily routine while in conflict with her own guilt, sexuality, and an unshakable sense of loss. An intense and brave performance by newcomer Joslyn Jensen, cited as “creative, nuanced, and moving” at Slamdance 2011, earned the film a Special Jury Mention and makes this an experience that’s hard to shake. With its echoes of Polanski’s Repulsion, Aronofsky’s Black Swan, and Haneke’s The Piano Teacher, the bold and startling WITHOUT is a rigorously filmed chamber drama of a most provocative and unusual nature.