Modern Love
TFI Suppport
Tribeca All Access® 2018
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In the era of chill, where the goal is to “live your best life” for your followers, two young lovers are torn apart. Twenty year-olds Zoe and Oscar fight for love, sex and connection in the age of Instagram.
Francesca Mirabella
Director, Screenwriter
Francesca Mirabella is a writer, visual artist, and filmmaker currently completing her thesis years in the graduate department at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she is a Dean's Fellow. Mirabella’s short films have screened at numerous festivals including: The Catskills Film Festival, The Atlanta Film Festival, Picture Farm Film Festival', Festival International Signes De Nuit, The Palm Beach International Film Festival, The New Orleans Film Festival, The Montana Film Festival, and The First Run Film Festival. Mirabella was singularly nominated out of her class by the Tisch Graduate faculty for a Princess Grace Award. She recently won the Wasserman Fox Writing Award for Best Screenplay. Mirabella is a 2017-2018 Marcie Bloom Fellow. She recently wrapped up shooting a four part series for Topic Stories and is currently in development on a television show, feature film, and new shorts.
Ilana Rossein
Co-Producer
Ilana Rossein is a New York City based producer and filmmaker. She founded Curbside Films in 2009, a production house dedicated to creating cinema with a global vision. Ilana specializes in South Asian production in the US and has worked with legendary Hindi film companies Yash Raj Films, Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment, and UTV among others. Curbside films handled the largest Indian production in the US, DHOOM 3. She has produced award-winning films such as SEA MEADOW (premiered at SXSW – 2012) and ENGLISH VINGLISH. She holds a BA in film studies form Wesleyan University.
Sheldon Chau
Cinematographer
Born and raised in Los Angeles and of Cantonese descent, Sheldon first discovered his greater passion for films in high school when he was introduced to the Criterion Collection DVDs by both his artist uncle and his drama teacher. After earning a Bachelor’s degree in Film & Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine, where he explored storytelling through visuals and camerawork, Sheldon committed fully to the pursuit of cinematography at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where he earned his MFA. Sheldon was the winner of the 2015 ARRI Volker Bahnemann Award for Cinematography and a 2013 Kodak Cinematography Scholarship nominee. He recently screened his work (as a cinematographer) at the Sundance, Toronto, Venice, and Los Angeles Film Festivals. He recently wrapped production on the AT&T and Tribeca Film Institute film, NIGERIAN PRINCE, in Lagos, Nigeria.