Two quirky, cynical teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives after high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric, middle aged record collector, one of them befriends him, which causes a rift in the girls’ friendship.

*Join us on Sunday, November 8th for a post-screening discussion with Michael Miller.

Michael R. Miller has built a distinguished career in film editing spanning independent cinema, studio productions, and award-winning festival films. After graduating from Cornell University, he began his career as assistant to editor Susan E. Morse and later worked with Thelma Schoonmaker on Raging Bull directed by Martin Scorsese.

Miller later became a sound editor on Blood Simple by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, before continuing his collaboration with the Coen brothers as editor of Raising Arizona and Miller’s Crossing.

His extensive editing credits also include Ghost World, I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, Boys on the Side, Swing Kids, Strangers with Candy starring Stephen Colbert and Amy Sedaris, Armageddon, Stigmata, Soul Plane, and Slipstream directed by Anthony Hopkins.

Among his acclaimed independent film work are happythankyoumoreplease, winner of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award, Liberal Arts, and Infinitely Polar Bear. In total, Miller has edited eight official Sundance selections. He also edited Abundant Acreage Available, which won Best Original Screenplay at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival.

Miller currently serves as Professor of Filmmaking at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where he previously chaired the Editing Department for eight years.

Moderator: Dr. de’Angelo Dia serves as Director of Education & Community Engagement at IPH, where he develops film-centered programs, public discussions, workshops, and community partnerships that connect cinema with civic dialogue and creative expression. With more than two decades of experience as an educator, his scholarship and creative practice draw upon Black liberation theology, Gullah cultural traditions, Southern Gothic literature, and comic mythology.

His poetry collections include bifurcation (Union Presbyterian Seminar, 2022), the poetry zine sacred|spaces (Theurgical Studies Press, 2024), and the chapbook nightshade (Bottlecap Press, 2024). His forthcoming manuscript, Saltwater Mystic, is a lyrical exploration of desire and grief through the lens of Southern cosmology.His work has appeared in BLACK BOY Journal, The Skinny Journal, Artists Writing on Liberation, Cru Arts & Culture, and elsewhere.