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EXCLUSIVE: 24-year-old multi-hyphenate Jillian Moray has wrapped connected Pismo, a coming-of-age comedic play marking her characteristic directorial debut, successful which she stars other Nuha Jes Izman (Yellowjackets), Madeline Popovich (Murdaugh: Death successful nan Family), Lindsey Normington (Anora), Jack Irv (The Sweet East), and Kentucker Audley (Strawberry Mansion).
Shot connected 16mm, pinch Pismo Beach, CA arsenic its setting, Pismo follows 3 champion friends arsenic they reunite for a party-filled weekend, only to person their nighttime spiral into threat and self-discovery, drafting attraction to nan intersexual pressures teenage girls face.
Alexis G. Zall (Coin Heist), Ashlin Teague (Lady successful nan Lake), Holly Fontanetta, and Justin Nguyen information retired nan cast. The movie is produced by Claire Loudis, Gordy De St. Jeor, and Moray, pinch Radiance Pictures’ Nuer Taqa and Zooey Pressey exec producing alongside Canopy Media Partners’ Steven Bombino.
Moray is coming disconnected nan Santa Barbara Film Festival premiere of her astir caller short, Barbara, having premiered different task titled Vintage Lamp Shade astatine American Cinematheque’s Proof Film Festival successful 2024.
She told Deadline, “Pismo is an important coming-of-age communicative navigating female relationship and nan intersexual pressures that tin travel on pinch it, particularly successful nan integer age. Thanks to my unthinkable DP, Violet Smith, we were capable to find a really cool equilibrium betwixt keeping nan movie earthy and grounded connected 16mm but still incorporating Gen Z integer aspects and energy. It was important to maine that we represented real, messy characters to springiness young girls personification to look astatine and spot themselves in, truthful I gave each nan powerfulness to my actors to thief style each 1 of their characters and make them uniquely their own.”
Moray is represented by Canopy Media Partners and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
Izman is repped by Buchwald and Cultured Artists; Popovich by nan Alexander White Agency and Vault Entertainment.
