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BIFF Presents: The Sweet East (2023). Directed by Sean Price Williams. In-person Q&A w/ screenwriter Nick Pinkerton.
One night only! BIFF Presents "The Sweet East" (2023) directed by Sean Price Williams
❗Island Connection: The film features a cameo from BHS-grad Jamie Granato.
THE SWEET EAST (Cannes 2023) is a picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the United States. Lillian, a high school senior from South Carolina, gets her first glimpse of the wider world on a class trip to Washington, D.C. Separated from her schoolmates, she embarks on a fractured road trip in search ... view more »
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Website: https://bifilmfest.org/screenings
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The screening will be followed by an in-person Q&A by the film's screenwriter, Nick Pinkerton.
Nick Pinkerton is a Cincinnati-born, Brooklyn-based writer focused on moving-image-based art. His writing has appeared in Film Comment, Sight & Sound, Artforum, frieze, Reverse Shot, 4Columns, Harper’s, the Baffler, and the Village Voice, among other publications. The Sweet East is his first screenplay.
What kind of a writer is Nick?
"I don't read much film criticism, but I read Nick Pinkerton.” —Josh Safdie
“Pinkerton says I ‘show no ear for quotidian dialogue’ and by all accounts he thinks I’m an asshole, yet still I am inclined to think he's the smartest, punkest, most acerbic critic working." - Ari Aster
LOCATION
4569 Lynwood Center Rd NE, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110
