Everything Beautiful Is Far Away

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Everything Beautiful Is Far Away
Everything Beautiful is Far Away (film poster).png
Directed by Pete Ohs
Andrea Sisson
Written byPete Ohs
Produced bySaul Germaine
Andrea Sisson
Pete Ohs
Starring Julia Garner
Joseph Cross
C.S. Lee
Jillian Mayer
CinematographyChristian Sorensen Hansen
Pete Ohs
Edited byPete Ohs
Nayim Saati
Andrea Sisson
Music by Alan Palomo
Production
companies
MANALI Pictures
Lauren Edward Productions
Distributed by The Orchard
Release date
  • July 21, 2017 (2017-07-21)(Los Angeles Film Festival)
Running time
91 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Everything Beautiful Is Far Away is a 2017 independent science-fiction fantasy film written by Pete Ohs, directed by Pete Ohs and Andrea Sisson, starring Julia Garner and Joseph Cross. It premiered in competition at the 2017 Los Angeles Film Festival where it received the U.S. Fiction Cinematography Award. [1]

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Plot

Traveling across a barren landscape, Lernert digs through piles of rubbish in an attempt to build a body for his companion Susan, the unresponsive robot head who hangs from the back of his pack. The pair comes across Rola, a spirited young woman who lacks survival skills but makes up for the deficiency with sheer determination. This unlikely trio navigates the harsh desert in search of a mythical water basin that could replenish their depleted resources and renew their will to carry on. The title is a reference to the Grandaddy song "Everything Beautiful is Far Away" whose lyrics mirror the plot and themes of the film.

Cast

Reception

Everything Beautiful Is Far Away premiered at the 2017 Los Angeles Film Festival and received the U.S. Fiction Cinematography Award. It later screened at the Tacoma Film Festival, receiving the Best Director and Best Cinematography Awards [2] and at the Eastern Oregon Film Festival, receiving the award for Best Feature. [3]

Alex Billington of FirstShowing.net reviewed the film positively saying "there's a sublime simplicity to Everything Beautiful is Far Away that also helps make it feel even more endearing as a cinematic feature." [4] The film was acquired for distribution by The Orchard. [5]

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References

  1. "'Becks,' 'Everything Beautiful Is Far Away' among L.A. Film Festival award winners" latimes.com, November 27, 2017.
  2. "Tacoma Film Festival: Archived Films & Award winning Films’," Tacomafilmfestival.com, November 28, 2013.
  3. "EOFF Festival Awards Announcement’," eofilmfest.com, November 28, 2013.
  4. "AFF Review: Kooky Sci-Fi Indie Film 'Everything Beautiful is Far Away'" firstshowing.net, November 28, 2017.
  5. ""Everything Beautiful Is Far Away (2017) Company Credits',"". IMDb.com . November 28, 2013.