Gala Screenings
Mouse
It's 2002. Best friends Minnie and Callie are heading into their senior year of high school, with Minnie long living in the protective shadow of the charismatic and admired Callie. When their friendship is suddenly upended at the start of the summer, Minnie struggles to define her own identity and forms a complicated relationship with Callie’s poised and attentive mother, pulling her further from her own chaotic home. An Independent Film Company release.
A Q&A with directors Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson immediately follows the screening.
Southeast premiere
DIRECTORS
Kelly O’Sullivan
Alex Thompson
PRODUCERS
Chelsea Krant
Pierce Cravens
Alex Thompson
Abigail Rose Solomon
Bonnie Comley
Stewart F. Lane
Steven A. Jones
Ian Keiser
Alex Wilson
WRITER
Kelly O’Sullivan
CAST
Sophie Okonedo
Katherine Mallen Kupferer
Chloe Coleman
Tara Mallen
ABOUT THE DIRECTORS
Kelly O'Sullivan is writer, director, and actor originally from Arkansas. Her first screenplay, Saint Frances, premiered at SXSW and won the Audience Award and Special Jury Prize for Breakthrough Voice in 2019; she also received two award nominations for acting in the film.
Alex Thompson is an Illinois-based, Kentucky-born film director, producer, and screenwriter. A two-time nominee for the Film Independent Cassavetes Award, he directed and produced Saint Frances and Rounding. Together, the pair have co-directed Ghostlight, Mouse, and the upcoming The Steel Harp.