THE FOLLOWER

Directed by Stephanie Szerlip / 2019 / 12 min
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FOFIF Funded filmmaker for her upcoming short, Young Forever.

Fueled by the hope of escaping her dreary suburban life, a misunderstood teen entertains the increasingly sinister advances of an Internet friend in a riff on the 1966 Joyce Carol Oates story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”

Stephanie Szerlip is a writer and director living in Los Angeles. After receiving a degree from SUNY Purchase, she began her career working with early video formats at the iconic video art institution Electronic Art Intermix. As a freelancer, she has created content, short docs and commercials for publications and brands and her short films have been featured at festivals across the country including Maryland Film Festival, Indie Memphis and Nitehawk Shorts Festival