ANIMAL

ANIMAL
Directed by Lauren Adams
Screenplay by Margaret Miller, Jeff Roberts

15 MIN | SCI-FI, COMEDY | UNITED STATES | 2022
NY PREMIERE

REGAL 14TH ST. | Saturday, October 14th | 1:15PM
Plays in SHORT FILM SERIES #5
Auditorium 11

Cast: Arielle Estoria, Catherine Curtin, Amy Heidt, Dot Marie Jones

Synopsis: Bitty and Minnie pilot their Post Haste Shipping Company vessel, delivering supplies for the ongoing and ambiguous rebuild of a collapsed America. For these pilots, their world is almost entirely contained to the inside of their ship – a self-driving behemoth with no windows onto the landscape that corporate assures them is haunted by dangerous Animals. Minnie has a vicious scar that seems to back up this warning. On a routine stop in a broken down Des Moines honky tonk, Bitty and Minnie chat with the gruff barkeep Dot. Dot peppers questions to Bitty and Minnie, since they are the only pilots she knows to ever be attacked by an Animal. Bitty bats away the questions, since she knows it was a drunken accident that led to Minnie’s jagged scar – not the Animal attack that they blamed it on. Saving them from more lies, they meet Pearl – a shiny, new penny of a woman. Young, passionate, and artistic, Pearl delights Bitty and makes Minnie nervous. Eschewing corporate policy, Pearl stows away and soon disrupts the well-worn rhythm of life in the cage of their ship – awakening hidden ambitions and exposing buried bargains.

Followed by Q&A with Filmmaker & Cast.