Interview:
Nicole Elmer,
director,
"What's the Use?"
In the Alice in Wonderland-informed surreal drama What’s the Use?, 17-year-old Sara (Amalia Sermini) crisscrosses Austin to find the loan shark (Joseph Cheatham) who has threatened her drug-addict father. Sara encounters many weird and/or wonderful people on her journey, including social misfit JC (Noel Gaulin). Jason Tremblay wrote the script for What’s the Use?, which will screen 2 p.m. April 25 at the Marchesa Hall & Theatre during the Cine Las Americans International Film Festival. Austin filmmaker Nicole Elmer previously directed In the Shadow, which screened during the 2012 Cine Las Americas International Film Festival. Aired: April 23, 2015 Web sites: http://www.bluepaperfilm.com/ and http://cinelasamericas.org/ |
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