My First Film
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Genres
Overview
A young filmmaker, Vita, revisits her first chaotic attempt at filmmaking 15 years prior. Shooting a semi-autobiographical film starring her friend Dina, Vita’s eager but inexperienced approach causes the production to spiral into chaos, leading to significant disruptions and a near-fatal accident.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
100 min
Release Date
2024-08-30
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
26
Vote Average
7.1
Odessa Young
Vita
Devon Ross
Dina
Cole Doman
JJ
Sage Ftacek
Bobby
Jane Wickline
Alexis
Seth Steinberg
Sam
Abram Kurtz
Cash
Jackson Anthony
Sound Guy
Eléonore Hendricks
Sylvia
Eamon Farren
Joe
Philip Ettinger
Dustin
Sarah Michelson
The Doctor
Ruby Max Fury
The Dad
Zia Anger
Zia
Joanna Fang
Nurse
Deana Leblanc
Anne Marie
Barbara Anger
Mom
Timothy Allan
Gideon
Cathy Lee Crane
Exec #1
4.0
Down in Paris
Richard, a 40-year-old filmmaker conquered by an unexplained anxiety attack, lets go of his current shoot and wanders through nocturnal Paris, in search of answers, solace and inspiration. During this sleepless night, at random encounters, sometimes warm, sometimes disturbing, crossing foreign figures, unknown bodies or familiar faces, Richard will face his fears and question his deep desires... until dawn.
2022-03-02 | fr
4.9
Land Without Evil: Ivy Maraey
A filmmaker and a Guarani Indian travel from La Paz to Bolivia’s swamps, exploring Guarani culture, ancient knowledge, and identity.
2013-10-17 | es
5.8
The Family Fang
A brother and sister return to their family home in search of their world famous parents who have disappeared.
2016-04-16 | en
0.0
Sorry, We're Dead
The ennui of a filmmaker, trapped between aspiration and reality, frames Lana Jing’s quirky, sarcastic, and cinematic-joke filled quarter-life crisis. At her lecture hall job, where aging white men wax on, self-involved, Lana accidentally frames her friend and co-worker when she destroys the only copy of an aging tech-bro’s high-profile lecture. Lana is forced to navigate stop motion animation, a secret admirer, and terrible bridge traffic to sort out a way forward to her destiny… kinda.
2024-02-10 | en
7.9
Close-Up
This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.
1990-05-09 | fa
6.8
Tape
Jon, a first-time filmmaker, finds himself in Lansing, Michigan to present his film at a local film festival. Vince, his high school friend who is now a volunteer fireman and small-time drug dealer, also visits the town to support Jon on his big day, or so it seems. After a raucous hello and much backslapping, it appears that there is an undercurrent of tension in the air.
2001-11-02 | en
6.8
Once Upon a Star
Join the crew of a traveling pharma-cinema troupe as they go on the road to spread the joy of live-dubbed movies, all while overcoming difficulties, deceits, and reaching for their dreams.
2023-10-09 | th
8.5
Falling in Love Like in Movies
A film adaptation writer wants to secretly write his first original screenplay about his true story of falling in love with someone who has recently become a widow.
2023-11-30 | id
0.0
Siapa Dia..
Layar, a popular film star who feels bored with his career wants to make a musical theater set in a family history that is always linked to Indonesian film history.
| id
0.0
Pighead
Two friends work together to follow their passion of filmmaking, but as their journey progresses, their friendship falls apart into a sloppy mess.
| en
6.6
In the Soup
An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.
1992-10-23 | en
4.9
The Wild Party
An aging silent movie comic star throws a lavish party to try and save his failing career.
1975-03-01 | en
7.0
How to Kill a Judge
A filmmaker's popular movie about a corrupt judge who is killed by the Mafia seemingly foretells the murder of a magistrate who orders the film's seizure.
1975-02-05 | it
6.1
Oh, Canada
Famed Canadian-American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife was one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Now in his late seventies, Fife is dying of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to a final interview in which he is determined to bare all his secrets at last, to demythologize his mythologized life.
2024-12-06 | en
6.3
Benjamin
Benjamin, a rising star filmmaker, is on the brink of premiering his difficult second film ’No Self' at the London Film Festival when Billie, his hard drinking publicist, introduces him to a mesmeric French musician called Noah.
2019-03-15 | en
6.4
Being Maria
A young, struggling actress lands her dream role in a film by an emerging Italian director, starring alongside an American superstar. What begins as her big breakthrough quickly turns into a living hell.
2024-06-19 | fr
3.8
Lisa
Stumbling across an uncompleted 1939 film called "Princess Marushka", filmmaker Sam becomes intrigued with the young actor Sylvain Marceau, who last appeared in the film. Hoping to discover the mystery behind Sylvain's disappearance, Sam decides to make a documentary and sets off to interview those who knew Sylvain, including elderly Lisa Morain. Through her interview, Sam learns the story of Lisa and Sylvain's doomed love affair on the eve of World War II.
2001-01-09 | fr
4.7
Teenager
A film company arrives in a small town to shoot a biker movie. The film's director encourages his actors to "live" their parts, and the results are clashes with the townspeople that end in murder.
1974-01-01 | en
0.0
Federico, the Imaginary Life of Fellini
The tormented love-hate relationship between acclaimed director Federico Fellini and actress Giulietta Masina, blending reality and imagination in depicting their lives.
| en
6.0
Lost Footage
How would a found footage film look if the footage was never found? This conceptual art experiment questions the very nature of film and cinema while serving as an ironic tribute to the found footage horror pop culture. The found footage format provides the narrative justification for such a film to exist: the non-existence exists because the footage existed yet it was lost and never found.
2022-03-20 | en