Standoff
2022
Role: Director / Producer
Written by Savannah Reich
Directed by Lisa Channer
Brennan Vance, Director of Photography
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WINNER Best Director
Yale Film Festival 2024WINNER Best Film
Geneva Downtown Film FestivalWINNER Best Short, Best Director
Cowpokes Film FestivalWINNER Audience Favorite in Genre
Minneapolis St Paul International Film FestivalRUNNER UP Audience Favorite in Genre
Great Lakes International Film FestivalOFFICIAL SELECTION at festivals in Amsterdam, Toronto, Berlin and the U.S.
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Meghan Kreidler
Ryan Colbert
Jon Cole
Jane Froiland
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Co- Producer and Editor — Matt Anderson
Music Composition — Dan Dukich
Executive Producer — Savannah Reich
Costumes — Andrea Gross
Hair and Make Up — Crist Ballas
Props — Abbee Warmboe
Standoff premiered at the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival in 2022.
The Making of Standoff
In 2017, I was commissioned to conduct research for a play about America with playwright Savannah Reich. The play, DENIM, would uncover the roots of our American mythologies by telling the story of denim jeans, the quintessential American uniform. Our research took us to Gold Rush archives in San Francisco where research into Levi Strauss and the Gold Rush revealed multitudes of false assumptions in our common understanding of the period. When myths clash against the historical record, absurdity is created, and so our entry point for the DENIM project was always humor.
After a workshop production at the University of Minnesota in 2018, we had plans to premiere DENIM in 2020. When the pandemic hit and it was not possible to make live theatre, we pivoted the work into a series of interconnected films called The Denim Trilogy.
The third film in the trilogy, Girls at the Painted Bird, is shooting in Fall 2023 along the Mississippi in Minneapolis.
A short comic film about a standoff that does not go as expected. This is Part II of a trilogy of films "The Denim Trilogy."
