PRESS
MAY 24, 2022
CANADA’S INSIDE OUT NAMES EIGHT PROJECTS FOR FINANCE FORUM
BY JOHN HAZELTON, SCREEN DAILY
The forum is staged by Inside Out, the Canadian 2SLGBTQ+ film festival and content distributor, and designed to provide queer-led creative teams with 2SLGBTQ+ content an opportunity to pitch their projects directly to decision makers.
Among the eight feature projects to be presented at the sixth annual forum are Curses!, a US-produced satire set in Colonial America, with Tulica Singh writing and directing and Zosia Mamet set to star; Sebastian, a BFI-backed UK/Finland drama from director Mikko Makela about a young London writer with a double life as a male escort; and A Good Spell, a UK/Scotland drama from writer Michael Lee Richardson about a teen living in 1970s Glasgow
JULY 26, 2021
Outfest Los Angeles: Dates, Venues & Lineup Set For 39th Festival Returning To In-Person Screenings
BY MATT GROBAR, deadline hollywood
Outfest has unveiled the dates, venues, and lineup for its 39th film festival, which is returning to in-person screenings more than a year and a half after the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival will be held this year between August 13-22.
DEC 22, 2020
Tense drama CLEMENTINE makes its UK digital debut
BY WE ARE CULT
Clementine is the critically acclaimed feature film debut from one-to-watch writer/director Lara Jean Gallagher, who has drawn comparisons to Jane Campion (Slant Magazine). Making waves upon its premiere at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival, this taut, atmospheric drama is now set for its premiere in the UK from Bohemia Media.
JUL 19, 2020
IFP Announces Project Forum Slate for 42nd IFP WeeK
BY FILMMAKER EVENts, filmmaker magazine
Today, IFP (Independent Filmmaker Project), Filmmaker’s parent organization, announced its Project Forum slate, highlighting 144 feature-length and series projects, including, for the first time, a slate of 36 audio projects, in development and production set to participate in the upcoming 42nd annual edition of IFP Week, taking place entirely online September 20-25, 2020.
MAY 8, 2020
Inside Out LGBTQ Film Festival Reveals Finance Forum Lineup
BY LEO BARRACLOUGH, variety
Inside Out, one of the world’s leading LGBTQ film festivals and Canada’s largest distributor of LGBTQ content, has given Variety exclusive access to the lineup of 10 feature film projects that will participate in the festival’s fourth annual Finance Forum during its 30th anniversary year. Executives taking part will include reps from Netflix, Bleecker Street, IFC Films, Gamechanger Films, Killer Films, MK2, Bankside Films, Powderkeg Studios and GLAAD. Inside Out executive director Andria Wilson and director of programming Andrew Murphy spoke to Variety about the program, and the commercial and creative health of LGBTQ cinema.
FEB 25, 2020
Breaking Through the Lens Unveils Shortlist for Pitching Platform at Cannes
BY ELSA KESLASSY, variety
Breaking Through The Lens, an initiative launched three years ago to promote emerging female directors, has unveiled the shortlist of projects vying to participate in the 3rd edition of its pitching platform set to take place during the Cannes Film Festival.
The selected projects, which will be pitched to over 100 financiers and key industry people during Cannes, were announced during the European Film Market on Feb. 25.
NOV 21, 2019
Oscilloscope Acquires U.S. Rights To Lara Jean Gallagher-Directed ‘Clementine’ For 2020 Release
BY MIKE FLEMING JR, deadline
Oscilloscope has acquired U.S. rights to writer-director Lara Jean Gallagher’s debut feature Clementine, a drama that premiered at Tribeca. The distributor will release theatrically in 2020.
Reeling from a one-sided breakup, anguished Karen (Otmara Marrero) flees Los Angeles for her ex’s idyllic lake house in the Pacific Northwest. There, she becomes entangled with a mysterious, alluring younger woman (Sydney Sweeney), whom she cannot seem to resist. Equal parts psychological thriller and sexual coming-of-age story, Clementine is a tense rumination on who to love and how to let go.
April 29, 2019
CLEMENTINE REVIEW: FILM THREAT
by Lorry Kikta
I’m sure I don’t have to tell anyone reading this that breakups are the absolute worst. Especially if you’ve been with someone for a long time. At the outset of Lara Jean Gallagher’s Clementine, Karen (Otmara Marrero) is really going through a tough time recovering from her breakup with D (Sonya Walger). Karen met D, a well-known artist, when she was very young and D was much older. The two owned a dog together and shared a home.
April 27, 2019
CLEMENTINE REVIEW: HAMMER TO NAIL
BY MATT DELMAN
A lake house is supposed to be a place to relax and de-stress, but in cinema it’s often the setting for psychological horror. Just ask the family in Jordan Peele’s Us or Michael Haneke’s Funny Games, but Lara Jean Gallagher’s feature debut Clementine owes more to another recent Tribeca Film Festival entry, Sofia Takal’s Always Shine. Gallagher, like Takal, excels at building tension out of seemingly innocuous situations. It’s tough to pinpoint exactly when our society became so paranoid and insecure that our movies started substituting boogeymen for passive aggression, but most of the pervading unease reads true. Anchored by the mysterious Sydney Sweeney, Clementine is a seductive lesbian thriller elevated by Gallagher’s keen direction and swift pacing.
APRIL 29, 2019
Sydney Sweeney & Otmara Marrero Explore A Complicated Female Relationship In Lara Jean Gallagher’s ‘Clementine’
By Matt Grobar
With her directorial debut Clementine, Lara Jean Gallagher sought to explore the nuances of female relationships, “and how one relationship with two women could seem like a lot of different things—sisters, friends, lovers, all at the same time.”
Starring Otmara Marrero (StartUp) and Sydney Sweeney (Sharp Objects, The Handmaid’s Tale), the drama centers on Karen, a young woman reeling from the end of a relationship, who seeks refuge in an unlikely place—her ex’s lake house. There, she meets Lana, a provocative younger woman, with whom she tests the waters of a complicated new relationship.
APRIL 30, 2019
Meet Sydney Sweeney, the actress starring in Clementine, HBO's Euphoria and Tarantino's Once Upon a Time In Hollywood
By Kerensa Cadenas
A twisty and gut-wrenching drama, Lara Gallagher’s Clementine centers on a heartbroken Karen (Otmara Marrero), who breaks into her ex’s lake house and does what anyone would do after a breakup — obsessively listen to voicemails from her ex, get stoned, get drunk, and generally make bad choices (like the aforementioned break-in).
Another one of those bad choices is Lana, played by Sydney Sweeney (above, right), who Karen has an increasingly confusing and dangerous relationship with.
MARCH 5, 2019
A CINEMATIC CELEBRATION: ANNOUNCING THE FEATURE FILM LINEUP FOR THE 2019 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL
BY THE EDITORS
The 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, presented by AT&T, unveiled its feature film lineup today. Continuing its tradition of elevating exceptional storytelling rooted in today’s global film communities, the 18th annual Festival will showcase debut works from emerging talent and new works from notable filmmakers. The program includes discoveries, comedies, music-centered, politically-minded, and social films. The 2019 Tribeca Film Festival takes place from April 24th to May 5th.
OCTOBER 5, 2017
‘StartUp’s Otmara Marrero, Sydney Sweeney & More Cast In ‘Clementine’
By Amanda N'Duka
Otmara Marrero, who currently co-stars in the Crackle series, StartUp, has been tapped to star in the psychological drama Clementine, along with Sydney Sweeney (HBO’s Sharp Objects), Will Brittain (Everybody Wants Some!!) and Sonya Walger (ABC’s The Catch). The film is the first from writer-director Lara Jean Gallagher.
It’s about a heartbroken woman (Marrero) who stows away to her estranged lover’s (Walger) lake house and becomes entangled with a teenage girl (Sweeney).