Praise for HER LOVER HER LOVER is an evocative short pitting Sandy and Cecil, two new parents, against the past they shared, the secrets that haunt them, and the choices that brought them to their new life. Mary Healy brings a heartfelt yearning to the role of SANDY, striving to understand the effects on her life of her mother’s decisions about her lover, her unborn-child, and her life. Michael Emery is emotional and steely in turns as the lover who fears telling too much about the past and jeopardizing his future. Viewers are left wanting more and wondering what choices they might make in a similar situation. HER LOVER is a cautionary tale, a too real allegory, and a haunting expression of closeness, which brings a beautiful cinematic depth of technique in rich color and drama, to spotlight multi-layered familial emotions of deception, tension, and fear. Our brilliant cast navigates the delicate present while besieged by the treachery of memory and the past.
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Her Lover
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Filming WRAPPED!! Congratulations to all involved!!
Her Lover
Mary Healy in the role of SANDY
Michael Emery in the role of CECIL
Robyne Parrish in the role of SARAH
Galway McCullough in the role of LEM
Samantha Falsetta in the role of SANDY (11)
Emma Jo Whalen in the role of JEN
Synopsis:
In this emotionally evocative short, a man (Cecil) and a woman (Sandy), who have a baby together, reveal details of a life. Some sad things, someone who is missed, someone who remembers more about the missed person than Sandy (a sister). Cecil gives Sandy a box containing her mother's belongings and Sandy begins to learn about her, to have flashbacks about the period of her death, and reads the letters which prove Cecil and her mother had an affair, her mother was pregnant, had an abortion, and then killed herself. The hard fact and a central concept of these twists is that her mother was pregnant with Sandy’s father’s baby…. And so, Sandy herself does not have the baby of her mother’s lover… But was she hoping to?
Official Selection
NOMINATED Best Short North America, Best Female Filmmaker USA, Best Cinematography USA
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FUNDING
This project is made possible, in part, with SOS grant funding from The Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County.
And by generous donations to our Seed and Spark campaign. Donors:
Anonymous, Abe Stroock, Sumblina Chaudhary, Leslie Meyerhoff, Amy & Enrico Suardi, Jane Crock, William Altman, Deborah Goemans, Newton Douglas, Sharon Burtner, Daphne McCorery, Stashu Koblinski, Coastal Llc Real Estate Group, Joey Arcuri, Deborah And Tom, Mara Alper, Diana Riesman, Carver And Tolbert, Galway McCullough, Joanna Luks, Satre Stuelke, Alli Berman, Nicole Belletti, Rosetta Bentz, Tony Serviente, John Whalen, Robin Alpine, Martha Lucia Y Monica, Adam Renkovish, Shoshana Rosenbaum, Robyne Parrish, Katerina Eichenberger, Gabriella B., Richard Williams, Emma, Robert Lodge, Emma Boyle, Mara Alper, Heidi Eklund, Grahame Wood, Michael Fisher, Suman Verma, Jim Fitzpatrick.
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