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    Signature Move

    Jennifer REEDER 2017 USA Fiction color 80min English, Urdu, Spani DCP
    Signature Move is a comedic and heartfelt look at modern families and the complexities of love in its many forms. Zaynab is a Pakistani, Muslim lawyer living in Chicago who begins a new romance with Alma, a confident Mexican-American woman. Zaynab's recently widowed mother Parveen has moved in and spends her days watching Pakistani TV dramas while searching for a potential husband for her only daughter. Alma's mother is a former professional Luchadora, which Zaynab finds fascinating, as she has recently taken up lucha-style wrestling with a former pro wrestler. Zaynab tries to keep her secrets from her mother, who knows more than she lets on.

    Director

    Jennifer REEDER

    Jennifer Reeder constructs personal fiction films about relationships, trauma and coping. Her award-winning narratives are innovative and borrow from a range of forms including after school specials, amateur music videos and magical realism. These films have shown consistently around the world, including the Sundance Film Festival, The Berlin Film Festival, The Venice Biennale and The Whitney Biennial. Her awards include several that have qualified her films for Oscar nomination. She won a Creative Capital Grant in Moving Image in 2015, short film funding from the Adrienne Shelly Foundation in 2016 and short film funding from the Hamburg Film Fund in 2016.

    Jennifer REEDER
    • 2017 Signature Move
    • 2008 Accidents at Home and How They Happen
    • 1995 White Trash Girl

    Director : Jennifer REEDER
    Producer : BRIAN HIEGGELKE, FAWZIA MIRZA, EUGENE SUN PARK, HUGH SCHULZE
    CINEMATOGRAPHy : CHRISTOPHER REJANO
    EDITOR : FELIX PINEIRO
    SOUND : JOHN WONG
    MUSIC : CARLOS VILLALOBOS, JR.
    PRODUCTION DESIGNER : AMANDA BRINTON

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