BLOOM
Chloë Levine
NICE SHOES Post-production (color) Grant.
About the project: It’s a regular day for Rylie, a sixteen-year-old highschooler, until she gets a voicemail from her estranged father asking for forgiveness, a step in his AA recovery. She seems unaffected at first, until she snaps moments later and beats up her fellow classmate. Deep in trouble - this hasn’t been her first physical outburst - Rylie flees the principal’s office and takes the train to her hometown where her dad is in Staten Island. On this single night, Rylie finds herself on a journey of self exploration through generational trauma and abuse, searching for where the toxic parts of herself were born and now live.
About the filmmakers: Chloë Levine is a New York filmmaker. Since the age of fourteen Levine has been acting in movies and creating her own. She received critical acclaim for her performance in THE RANGER, which premiered at South by Southwest, and THE TRANSFIGURATION, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Levine appears in Netflix’s TRINKETS, THE OA and THE SOCIETY. Levine stars and executive producers ANTARCTICA which premiered at Raindance. Levine made her directorial debut with her short film DRAGON, which won the 2014 Tribeca Film Institute “Our City, My Story” Award for Best Experimental Short. Levine is now in post production on her latest project, BLOOM, which just won a post production grant from the Future of Film is Female. Levine resides in Brooklyn.