Filmmaker Jamie Dack is no stranger to film festivals. Her short film about teenage malaise in suburban Southern California “Palm Trees and Power Lines” premiered at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival as a Cinéfondatio selection.
A graduate of NYU’s MFA program, Dack’s films explore loneliness and insecurity. Partially inspired by a series of still photographs Dack took of her native Southern California, the feature “Palm Trees and Power Lines” is an adaptation of her earlier short, expanding and adding themes of vulnerability, grooming and exploitation.
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