My First Film is a 2024 American drama film directed by Zia Anger, who co-wrote the screenplay with Billy Feldman. A semi-autobiographical film based on Anger's experiences, it stars Odessa Young as a young filmmaker who recounts the struggle to make her first feature film.[1]

The film had its world premiere at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen on March 19, 2024, then had a limited release on August 30 before streaming on Mubi on September 6. It received critical acclaim.

Cast

Production

Between 2010 and 2012, Zia Anger shot her first feature film Always All Ways, Anne Marie with her family and friends as cast and crew,[2][3] but the project was rejected by multiple film festivals and left as "abandoned" on IMDb.[4] Anger then created an interactive live performance due to her frustration with filmmaking and festivals, using a TextEdit documentary and QuickTime files of the feature film, involving viewers through iMessage and AirDrop.[5][6]

Anger and Billy Feldman began writing the film's screenplay during the COVID-19 pandemic.[7][8] Odessa Young, Devon Ross, Cole Doman, Jane Wickline, Philip Ettinger,Eamon Farren, Eleanore Hendricks, Sage Ftacek, Jackson Anthony, Seth Steinberg, Hailey Gates, Sarah Michelson, Abram Kurtz, and Ruby Max Fury joined the cast of the film in November 2022, with Anger set to direct and Mubi set to produce and distribute.[9]

Release

It had its world premiere at CPH:DOX on March 19, 2024.[10] It received a limited release on August 30, 2024, and began streaming on Mubi on September 6, 2024.[11]

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 91% of 11 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.80/10.[12] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 81 out of 100, based on 6 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[13]

Natalie Winkelman of IndieWire gave the film an A- and wrote, "My First Film is, at its core, a movie not about upheaval but about yearning, and about how, sometimes, giving that yearning up can be a beautiful, generous act of creation all its own."[14] Richard Brody of The New Yorker praised the film and called it "a masterwork of an artistic coming-of-age and a virtuosic reconception of the art of cinema itself".[15]

References

  1. ^ "My First Film". CPH:DOX. Retrieved February 21, 2024.
  2. ^ Abbatescanni, Davide (March 25, 2024). "CPH:DOX Next:Wave interview: My First Film by Zia Anger". Business Doc Europe. Retrieved September 5, 2024.
  3. ^ Lei, Alex (June 19, 2014). ""Going Through Every Emotion Is Important": Zia Anger Morphs Desktop Documentary Performance 'My First Film' Into Fiction". International Documentary Association. Retrieved September 5, 2024.
  4. ^ McIntosh, Shanekia (August 30, 2024). ""Every Version of it Tore Me Apart": Zia Anger on Her New Movie 'My First Film'". Elephant. Retrieved September 5, 2024.
  5. ^ Shaffer, Marshall (August 31, 2024). "Interview: Zia Anger and Odessa Young on the Freedoms of 'My First Film'". Slant Magazine. Retrieved September 5, 2024.
  6. ^ Newman, Nick (August 29, 2024). ""I Hate Her": Zia Anger on the Thorny Self-Portrait 'My First Film'". The Film Stage. Retrieved September 5, 2024.
  7. ^ Saito, Stephen (August 30, 2024). "Zia Anger on Reconciling an Experience with Perspective in My First Film". Moveable Fest. Retrieved September 5, 2024.
  8. ^ Cadenas, Keresna (September 4, 2024). "When Zia Anger Cast Odessa Young as a Stand-In for Herself in 'My First Film', an Unbreakable Bond Was Forged". IndieWire. Retrieved September 5, 2024.
  9. ^ D'Alessandro, Anthony (November 21, 2022). "Zia Anger's 'My First Film' From Mubi Sets Odessa Young As Lead". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved February 28, 2024.
  10. ^ Barraclough, Leo (February 15, 2024). "Documentary Film Festival CPH:DOX Unveils Competition Lineup". Variety. Retrieved February 28, 2024.
  11. ^ Lattanzio, Ryan (August 8, 2024). "'My First Film' Trailer: Zia Anger's Feature Debut Is a Filmmaking Hall of Mirrors Starring Odessa Young". IndieWire. Retrieved August 8, 2024.
  12. ^ "My First Film". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved September 6, 2024.
  13. ^ "My First Film". Metacritic. Retrieved September 7, 2024.
  14. ^ Winkelman, Natalie (August 21, 2024). "'My First Film' Review: Zia Anger's Origin Story Establishes Her as an Electrifying New Voice in American Indie Film". IndieWire. Retrieved September 5, 2024.
  15. ^ Brody, Richard (September 4, 2024). "The Metafictional Ingenuity of My First Film". The New Yorker. Retrieved September 5, 2024.
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