The Luckiest Girl on the Lower East Side

A couple of friends of ours have a new film they worked on that should be hitting the festival circuit soon.

Amy Leonard's The Luckiest Girl on the Lower East Side is a film that blends honesty and artistic interpretation through movement, colors, edits, and sound to create a more genuine film experience.

The film's producer Timothy Crook recorded and engineered the director's commentary and actor's commentary tracks for the Uptown special edition DVD. Tim was born & raised in Indiana where he pursued music and developed his interest in film. Tim has worked as a sound recordist, gaffer, DP, producer & director. He is currently working on his feature length documentary. Here is his website.

The film's editor Dennis Fornino designed and authored the Uptown special edition DVD, and masterminded the audio editing and placement of Jen Johan's (Film Intuition) generous critical commentary track. Dennis was born and raised in Brooklyn. He holds a B.A. in Film Production from Brooklyn College. He edited the mockumentary, Mitte, which aired on PBS (reel13.com winner). He also edited 'Un Piede Di Roman Polanski' and won for best experimental video at Cinekink 2009. Dennis has over 8 years experience editing narrative, documentaries, shorts, experimental/music video.

The story takes place in modern day New York City, the Lower East Side to be exact and revolves around Sarina, a young French-Algerian woman who finds herself at the crossroads..fighting for her life.

THE LUCKIEST GIRL ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE
Written/Directed/Produced by: Amy Leonard
Running time: 71 min.

Music from NYC experimental/punk legend SUICIDE, and upcoming bands such as AVA LUNA, TYBURN SAINTS, hip-hop artists POETIC REPUBLIC, and jazz musician GREG DIAMOND.

More about the film at the official website.

Check out the teaser:

The Luckiest Girl on the Lower East Side - Teaser from Amy Leonard on Vimeo.