U.S. THEATRICAL PREMIERE
The screening on Friday, 3/21, at 7:00 PM includes a wine reception at 6:30 PM, followed by a Q&A with director Harley Chamandy after the film.
Allen Sunshine tells the story of a former music mogul who retreats to an isolated lake-side home to grieve his famous wife’s suicide.
He copes by composing ambient-electronic music and by nurturing an unexpected friendship with two young boys whom he meets on the lake fishing. Throughout the course of his stages of grief, Allen encounters characters that remind him of what he’s lost and forgotten, and what he hopes to gain and reconcile.
Honored for its innovation and emotional depth, Allen Sunshine received the Werner Herzog Film Award, presented by the Werner Herzog Foundation in collaboration with the Film Archive Munich. The film features Alex Coco as Executive Producer, who also produced Anora, the Academy Award® winner for Best Picture and Palme d’Or recipient.