The Exploding Girl

Twenty-year-old Ivy heads home for college spring-break to New York with a fresh romance in her heart. When her best friend Al can’t find a place to stay, she asks her mother to take him in. Spending time in the city together strengthens their friendship, while Ivy’s boyfriend grows more distant. Although troubled, Ivy keeps her emotions in check, until her feelings become something she can’t control.
Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.
Script: Bradley Rust Gray
Cinematography: Eric Lin
Editing: So Yong Kim, Bradley Rust Gray
Sound: Michael Sterkin
Music: mum
Actors: Zoe Kazan (Ivy), Mark Rendall (Al), Franklin Pipp (Greg), Maryann Urbano (mom)
Production: soandbrad, USA soandbrad@yahoo.com www.soandbrad.com
Producers: SoYong Kim, Karin Chien, Ben Howe, Bradley Rust Gray
Format: HDcam Color
Production Country: USA
Production Year: 2009
Duration: 79
Contact: Memento Films International, France T. +33 1 5334 9020 F. +33 1 4247 1124 sales@memento-films.com www.memento-films.com

Bradley Rust Gray

He was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1971. He studied Architecture, Art, and Film and has Master’s degrees from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles and the British Film Institute, as well as a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His first narrative feature, Salt, was filmed in Iceland and won the Caligari Film Prize for Innovative Filmmaking in Berlin in 2003. His short film hITCH won an award at Sundance in 2000 and was selected as one of the “Best Films of the Year” by Film Comment magazine. He works in partnership with his wife, So Yong Kim.

Filmography

1992 Autotomy (short)
1994 Hole (short)
1996 Hunger (short)
1997 Flutter (short)
1998 Mom (short)
1999 hITCH (short)
2001 With You Now (doc.)
2003 Salt
2009 The Exploding Girl