Filmed on location in and around Green Lake, a remote lake in northern Michigan, Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) renders a sun-kissed tribute to a hometown and captures the warmth and nostalgia of a hot, lazy summer day by the water. The film employs a chaptered yet fluid structure with four parts — "Sunfish," "Summer Camp," "Two Hearted," and "Resident Bird" — following a handful of characters as they grow up, come of age, and work within a sometimes-magical small town. Central figures include 14-year-old Lu, teen musician Jun, single mother Annie, and sisters Robin and Blue. The film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Dramatic Competition and was picked up for distribution by Caryn Coleman's The Future of Film Is Female.
Filmed on location in and around Green Lake, a remote lake in northern Michigan, " Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) " is a gorgeously rendered tribute to writer-director Sierra Falconer's hometown. Developed as Falconer's senior thesis film for UCLA's M.F.A. film program, the sun-kissed anthology perfectly captures the warmth and nostalgia of spending a hot and lazy summer day by the lake's sparkling waters.
Falconer grew up in Traverse City, Michigan, just ten miles from Green Lake, where she spent many summers at her grandparents' lakefront home. As she developed her thesis, she could not get her home out of her mind. A desire to emulate the feeling of a summer on the lake led to the film's chaptered, yet fluid structure. The parts, entitled "Sunfish," "Summer Camp," "Two Hearted," and "Resident Bird," follow a handful of characters as they spend their summer days growing up,
These characters include a 14-year-old girl named Lu (Maren Heary) spending the summer at her grandparents' lake house after her mother impulsively elopes on the last day of school; the high strung teen musician Jun (Jim Kaplan, real-life student at the prestigious Interlochen Arts Camp), whose overbearing mother wants him to become the first chair violin in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra by the time he reaches eighteen;
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