Join us for a screening followed by a Q&A with Kayli Carter and writer-director-producer Tamara Jenkins who is nominated for three 2019 Film Independent Spirit Awards: Best Screenplay, Best Director, and The Bonnie Award.
Moderated by Bruce Fretts, New York Times Contributing Writer
Estimated program end time: 9:35 PM
SYNOPSIS
The moving new comedy from Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Tamara Jenkins (The Savages, Slums of Beverly Hills), PRIVATE LIFE is a bracingly funny and often emotional examination of the unpredictability of modern marriage. Desperate to start a family, Manhattan-based writer Rachel (Kathryn Hahn) finds herself descending deeper and deeper into the insular world of assisted reproduction and domestic adoption with her loving husband Richard (Academy Award®-nominee Paul Giamatti). Just as the two feel they are at the end of their middle-aged rope, an unexpected surprise in the form of college dropout Sadie (Film Independent Spirit Award-nominee Kayli Carter) enters their lives and opens their world to new possibilities.
PANELIST BIOS
Tamara Jenkins
Tamara Jenkins is the writer/director of The Savages, Slums of Beverly Hills, and several award-winning short films. The Savages premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, and it received two Academy Award nominations (Best Actress and Best Original Screenplay), the Best Screenplay award from both the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the Film Independent Spirit Awards, and many other honors. Jenkins lives in NYC with her husband and daughter.
Kayli Carter
Kayli Carter recently starred in Scott Frank’s Godless, a miniseries for Netflix from Executive Producer Steven Soderbergh. The show received a 2018 Emmy Award nomination for “Outstanding Limited Series” and a Critics Choice Award nomination for “Best Limited Series.”
Carter will next appear in the independent film, Charlie Says, opposite Matt Smith and Merritt Weaver. Her other credits include the horror film, Rings, which was released by Paramount, and Amazon’s Z: The Beginning of Everything.
On stage, Carter originated the role of “Flo” in Mark Rylance's Olivier-nominated comedy, Nice Fish, in the West End, St. Ann's Warehouse and the American Repertory Theater.
Carter graduated with a BFA in Performing Arts from Savannah College of Art and Design and is based in New York.
