BIFF Presents: The Sweet East (2023). Directed by Sean Price Williams. In-person Q&A w/ screenwriter Nick Pinkerton.
One night only! BIFF Presents "The Sweet East" (2023) directed by Sean Price Williams
❗Island Connection: The film features a cameo from BHS-grad Jamie Granato.
THE SWEET EAST (Cannes 2023) is a picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the United States. Lillian, a high school senior from South Carolina, gets her first glimpse of the wider world on a class trip to Washington, D.C. Separated from her schoolmates, she embarks on a fractured road trip in search of America. Along the way, she falls in with a variety of strange factions, each living out their own alternative realities in our present day. The directorial debut of acclaimed indie cinematographer Sean Price Williams (Safdie Brothers, Abel Ferrara), The Playlist calls the film, "a riotous Alice in Wondermerica."
Starring: Talia Ryder, Earl Cave, Simon Rex, Ayo Edebiri, Jeremy O. Harris, Jacob Elordi, Rish Shah
Lynwood Theatre
Saturday, February 10th, 2024
9pm
Tickets and info: https://bifilmfest.org/screenings
“A shape-shifting satire about modern American subcultures” - NYTimes
“Fun and hot, smart and dumb, a total blast.” - The Film Stage
“Festival reviews just love to hype a breakout performance, to the extent that one worries about becoming the little critic that cried breakout. But here goes: Talia Ryder, lead actor in “The Sweet East,” is a star.” - Variety
“Sean Price Williams builds a timely film that feels timeless” - The Playlist
2024/02/10 - 2024/02/10
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The screening will be followed by an in-person Q&A by the film's screenwriter, Nick Pinkerton.
Nick Pinkerton is a Cincinnati-born, Brooklyn-based writer focused on moving-image-based art. His writing has appeared in Film Comment, Sight & Sound, Artforum, frieze, Reverse Shot, 4Columns, Harper’s, the Baffler, and the Village Voice, among other publications. The Sweet East is his first screenplay.
What kind of a writer is Nick?
"I don't read much film criticism, but I read Nick Pinkerton.” —Josh Safdie
“Pinkerton says I ‘show no ear for quotidian dialogue’ and by all accounts he thinks I’m an asshole, yet still I am inclined to think he's the smartest, punkest, most acerbic critic working." - Ari Aster
The Historic Lynwood Theatre
4569 Lynwood Center Rd NE, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110