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EXCLUSIVE: Filming has wrapped connected Jessica Sanders’ I Want to Feel Fun. Michaela Watkins (Hacks) stars successful nan movie, which is based connected Sanders’ short of nan aforesaid sanction that premiered astatine Tribeca past year.
Avi Rothman, Lilah Pate, Vivian Bang, Dave Merheje, Kiran Deol, Zainne Saleh, Finn Harry, Andrew Key and Gene Kang besides star. The movie blends master actors pinch mundane people.
Sanders is known for her documentary work, including After Innocence, which won nan Sundance Special Jury Prize, and Sing!, for which she earned an Oscar nom. I Want To Feel Fun is her first communicative feature. She described nan movie arsenic “an wholly improvised drama weaving intersecting stories of emotion and connection.” The Angeleno added it is “an unexpected, affectional escapade crossed L.A.’s divers neighborhoods and yet a emotion missive to nan city.”
Sanders besides produces, alongside Patricia Seely. Executive producers see Mary Pat Bentel, David Katznelson and Noam Dromi via Reboot Studios and Joe Plummer and Stacey Reiss via Wavelength. Alyssa Schroeter and Roland Kassis Co-EP via Brevity Films. Caitlin Cleary is co-producer.
“Jessica has a uncommon expertise to create activity that feels some profoundly quality and wholly live successful nan moment. I Want to Feel Fun captures that small heart successful a measurement that feels fresh, emotionally resonant, and distinctly of Los Angeles,” said Dromi, Managing Director of Reboot Studios.
Reiss, Head of Film astatine Wavelength, said: “We loved Jessica’s imagination for a communicative drama mixed pinch documentary elements and her determination to get it made nary matter what. Being capable to support that arsenic an indie workplace is simply a large portion of who we are and what makes projects for illustration this truthful meaningful.”
I Want to Feel Fun is successful post-production astatine Wavelength’s L.A. campus.
