When twenty-year-old Ivy heads home Spring Break with a fresh romance in her heart, everything seems to be going perfectly. When her best friend Al finds himself without lodgings, Ivy and her mother take him in and Ivy and Al's friendship strengthens while her boyfriend grows more distant from afar. Increasingly distressed about her conflicting feelings, Ivy must stay resilient in the face of her epilepsy, lest her emotions become something she can't control. Marking Zoe Kazan's first leading role, Bradley Rust Gray's film is a meditative and realistic portrait of a young girl coming of age and finding a deeper kind of love in New York City.
Director Bradley Rust Gray
Gray is a Fulbright scholar who has received graduate degrees from both USC and the British Film Instittute in London. His undergraduate work focused on architecture, sculpture and experimental filmmaking with a degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Gray's first narrative feature, SALT, was filmed in Iceland and won the Caligari Film Prize for Innovative Filmmaking in Berlin in 2003. It was selected for over 20 international film festivals and won three more international awards. The film was released on Sundance Channel in the US. Gray's short film HITCH won an award at Sundance in 2000 and was selected as one of the "Best Films of the Year" in Film Comment.
Cast
Ivy
Zoe Kazan
Greg
Franklin Pipp
Al
Mark Rendall
Ivy's Mom
Maryann Urbano
Credits
Directed by
Bradley Rust Gray
Written by
Bradley Rust Gray
Produced by
So Yong Kim Karin Chien Ben Howe Bradley Rust Gray
Executive produers
Jason Diamond Josh Diamond Billfield Cheng Jay Van Hoy Lars Knudsen
