Stray Dolls
Logline
Two young women working in a motel are caught in a web of crime when one petty theft spirals into the next, setting off a domino of violent events.
Sonejuhi Sinha
SCREENWRITER, DIRECTOR
Sonejuhi got her start in the industry working as a film editor for the internationally renowned editorial company Final Cut. She has edited several music videos for MTV and MTV2 UK, narrative short films that have premiered at various film festivals and commercials for high profile campaigns such as Keep a Child Alive and Stand Your Ground, which garnered recognition from ADcritic, Creativity, and Huffington Post and won Gold Lions at Cannes. Sonejuhi has worked alongside acclaimed directors such as Harmony Korine, Julie Taymor and Spike Jonze. She produced and edited These Birds Walk and Homegoings, two award-winning documentary feature films that played at several festivals, including SXSW, Full Frame and True/False, and garnered several international awards including Best Doc Award - Abu Dhabi, Social Impact Award - Little Rock Film Festival, Vigilance Award - Nashville Film Festival and Best Doc - Minnesota Film Festival 2013, and a nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Filmmaking by Cinema Eye Honor Awards.
Charlotte Rabate
PRODUCER
Charlotte Rabate is a French producer and writer/director based in New York. Her short film Lucille in the Sky premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival where it received a special mention. Charlotte has won the AICP award, the Porsche award and was nominated for a Young Director Award at the Cannes' Lions, for her viral spec for Durex. As producer, Charlotte’s films have premiered at the Cannes Film festival, the Venice Film festival, Clermont Ferrand, and the Sundance Film festival. Charlotte earned a Bachelor’s degree from the London School of Economics and a Master of Fine Arts in Filmmaking from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, with generous support from the W.T.C. Johnson Scholarship and the Tisch Scholarship. She has attended the Berlin Talents as a producer and was a Rawi Screenwriter’s Fellow with her first feature she will be directing, Tourne Cheri, which takes place in Lebanon and Syria.
Shane Sigler
CINEMATOGRAPHER
Shane is a Brooklynbased cinematographer, who was born and raised in Iowa. He studied photography & film at the University of Virginia and apprenticed under filmmaker/photographer Bruce Weber, later serving as cinematographer on his feature, A Letter to True. His recent narrative credits include, Love Comes Later, directed by Sonejuhi Sinha, selected for Cannes Critics Week 2015, Good Enough (AnnaRose King), Out There (Jennifer Suhr), and News From Nowhere (Paul Morrissey). He has also worked extensively in documentaries with the films (John Walter, in production), Alias Ruby Blade (director: Alex Meillier, IDFA/Tribeca FF 2013), Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (Chiemi Karasawa, Tribeca FF 2014), and Capitalism: A Love Story (Michael Moore, Venice FF 2009). His commercial clients include Chanel, Ralph Lauren, Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton, Vogue, Gucci, Fendi, Vice, Levi’s, IBM, Pringle of Scotland, Johnson & Johnson, Warby Parker, Kate Spade, Tommy Hilfiger, Coach, Calvin Klein, Planned Parenthood, The New York Times. He frequently collaborates with directors Bruce Weber, Pamela Hanson, Cass Bird, Fabien Baron, Chiara Clemente, Diane Martel, Stefano Azario, Andrew Zuckerman, Roman Coppola, Jennifer Venditti, Dewey Nicks, Freddie Helwig, Jake Chessum, We Are the Rhoads, Sharif Hamza, Mickalene Thomas, Jake Sumner, Crystal Moselle, Molly Shiot, and Noe DeWitt. He is a member of the International Cinematographers Guild, Local 600 NY.
Gingger Shankar
COMPOSER
Gingger Shankar is a singer, virtuoso violinist and composer. Her accomplishments include working with top producers and film composers including Mel Gibson, Trent Reznor, Mike Nichols, Mike Myers, and James Newton Howard. Gingger is the only woman in the world to play the Double Violin, an instrument that covers the entire orchestra range. She guested on Katy Perry's last album 'Prism', has toured with the Smashing Pumpkins and co-composed music for the 'Passion of the Christ', Sundance Award Winner Circumstance and and several other films. Press links.