Between Floors
Jen White
About the filmmaker:
Jen White became a camera junkie at the age of twelve while earning a photography badge in Girl Scouts. After three years working gigs as a babysitter to feed her ever-growing film stock habit, she spent a few hours watching a movie she wasn't old enough to see and her life has never been the same since.
After graduating from Columbia College Chicago with a B.A. in film production in 1999, Jen moved back to her home town of Austin, Texas, where she works primarily as a cinematographer. She has lensed multiple feature films, documentaries, and award-winning shorts and music videos. Her work has aired on A&E, TLC, Discovery, MTV Europe, and PBS, as well as festivals around the world.
When she's not shooting projects for other directors, Jen pulls double duty as director and cinematographer for music videos, live concerts, short films, and the occasional documentary or commercial. Jen is currently preparing her next feature film, a collaboration with her mentor, to be shot in downtown Chicago in 2010. Between Floors is her feature film debut.
About the film:
Between Floors examines the human condition through a uniquely claustrophobic lens, intercutting between five stuck elevators and the people trapped inside them. Each elevator becomes an existential purgatory, forcing its occupants to not only confront their isolation, but themselves and each other in varied and unexpected ways. Taking place entirely in five elevators, Between Floors is as unusual as it is arresting, blurring lines of genre, tone and form while its characters are stripped bare—trapped, alone, waiting—and we get to watch what happens. Awkwardly funny, numbingly tragic, anxiously crushing, and ultimately liberating, the film features a colorful variety of characters stripped of control, slowed to a halt, and forced to reflect... until the doors open.
This feature-length film, produced and directed by Jen White, stars Michael Conway, Anika Kunik, Kathryn MaGill, Brent Smiga, Ryan Wickerham, Jim Walters IV and Scott Bate. Supporting cast: Eric Anderson, Melody Chase, Frank Ertl, Sara Flowers, Spencer Gibb, Matt Hurley, Jason Konopisos, Elizabeth Mason, William J. Orendorff, David Precopia, Steve Prince, Jessica Robertson, Ken Thomas, Bill Wise and Amanda Stephens.
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