Slamdance & Rotterdam Exclusive: Clip From Small Town Love Letter 'Tired Moonlight'
A film premiering at two festivals this weekend is "Tired Moonlight," a 16mm movie shot in filmmaker Britni West's hometown of Kalispell, Montana. The film boasts an indie pedigree, as West worked on the upcoming films "Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter" (which premiered at Sundance last year) and "7 Chinese Brothers," while DP Adam Ginsberg shot Alex Karpovsky's underrated road trip romance flick "Red Flag." Karpovsky himself serves as associate producer and plays Crazy Mike in the film, which follows Dawn (Liz Randall), a lonely, middle-aged woman in a small town.
Today we've got an exclusive clip from the film, which Slamdance programmer Josh Mandel describes as "a love letter to small town Americana oblivious to Facebook, reality tv and diet soda," and says it, "casts a spell and doesn’t let go until you can smell the fireworks lighting up the summer nighttime sky." With the talent behind the camera and an endorsement like...