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Tangles
Fresh from Cannes, the star-studded, adult animated drama Tangles follows Sarah as she juggles a long-distance relationship, a burgeoning career, and her mother’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis. Sarah Leavitt’s graphic memoir Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer’s, My Mother and Me comes to life in stunning, hand-drawn 2D animation in director Leah Nelson’s deeply moving feature debut. An Independent Film Company release.
A Q&A with director, producer, and writer Leah Nelson and producer Lauren Miller Rogen immediately follows the screening.
DIRECTOR
Leah Nelson
PRODUCERS
Vicky Patel
Steve Barnett
Alan Powell
Seth Rogen
Evan Goldberg
James Weaver
Alex McAtee
Lauren Miller Rogen
Jennifer Ray
Jay Grandin
Teresa Toews
Leah Nelson
Ross Murray
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
WRITERS
Leah Nelson
Sarah Leavitt
Trev Renney
CAST
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Abbi Jacobson
Bryan Cranston
Beanie Feldstein
Seth Rogen
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Leah Nelson is a Vancouver-based filmmaker and co-founder of the multiple Emmy Award-winning animation studio Giant Ant. She has directed the short films Swiss Chalet: A Helping Hand and Mavis Staines: Sharing Dance and executive produced the documentary Precious Leader Woman. Tangles is her feature film directorial debut.