The Future

SYNOPSIS

When a couple decides to adopt a stray cat their perspective on life changes radically, literally altering the course of time and space and testing their faith in each other and themselves.

DIRECTOR

Miranda July is a filmmaker, artist, and writer. Her videos, performances, and web-based projects have been presented at the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and in two Whitney Biennials.
July wrote, directed and starred in her first feature-length film, Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), which won a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival and four prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, including the Camera d’Or.
Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper’s, and The New Yorker; her collection of stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You (2007), won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and has been published in 20 countries.
She created the participatory website, “learningtoloveyoumore” with artist Harrell Fletcher and a companion book was published in 2007. Eleven Heavy Things, an interactive sculpture garden she designed for the 2009 Venice Biennale, was on view in Union Square in New York in the summer of 2010.
Raised in Berkeley, California, she currently lives in Los Angeles.

CREDITS

CAST:

Sophie: Miranda July
Jason: Hamish Linklater
Marshall: David Warshofsky
Gabriella: Isabella Acres
Joe: Joe Putterlik

CREW:

Scriptwriter & Director: Miranda July
Director of Photography: Nikolai von Graevenitz
Produktion Designer: Elliott Hostetter
Editor: Andrew Bird
Music by: Jon Brion
Costume Design: Christie Wittenborn
Makeup Artist: Sabine Schumann
Musik Supervisor: Maragret Yen
Sound Mixer: Patrick Veigel
Sound Designer: Rainer Heesch
Re-recording Mixer: Lars Ginzel

PRODUCTION:

Producer Germany: Gerhard Meixner & Roman Paul
Producer USA: Gina Kwon
Co-Producer: Chris Stinson
Executive Producer: Sue Bruce-Smith

GERMAN FUNDING:

Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (MBB), Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA)

PRESS & SALES

WORLD SALES:

The Match Factory

DISTRIBUTION FRANCE:

Haut et Court

BROADCASTER UK:

Film4

AWARDS & FESTIVALS

AWARDS:

Digital Emmy Award 2015
Prix Europa for Best Online Project 2014
Prix de Jeunesse &amp
Jury Prize for Best Transmedia Project at Geneva IFF

FESTIVALS:

Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2011
Official Selection Berlinale 2011 – Competition
BFI, London
Sydney International Film Festival
Sao Paulo International Film Festival
Mar del Plata, Argentina
Durban International Film Festival
Melbourne International Film Festival
Love and Anarchy – Helsinki Film Festival
Viennale, Austria
Flanders International Film Festival Ghent
Stockholm International Film Festival
Gijon International Film Festival