LOVE ME (2024)
WRITER-DIRECTOR: SAM & ANDY ZUCHERO
PRODUCED BY SHIVHANS PICTURES & AGX
CASTING DIRECTOR: DAMIAN BAO (UGC GLOBAL CASTING)
AWARDS:
2024 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL – THE ALFRED P. SLOAN FEATURE FILM PRIZE
2024 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL – GRAND JURY PRIZE NOMINEE
SYPNOPSIS: LONG AFTER HUMANITY’S EXTINCTION, A BUOY AND A SATELLITE MEET ONLINE AND FALL IN LOVE.
AS FILMMAKERS SAM & ANDY DEMONSTRATE IN THEIR WILDLY IMAGINATIVE DEBUT FEATURE, TELLING THE LOVE STORY OF A SMART BUOY AND AN ORBITING SATELLITE THAT SPANS A BILLION YEARS AND PROBES THE MYSTERIES OF BEING AND CONSCIOUSNESS REQUIRES LEGIT STORYTELLING DEXTERITY. LOVE ME’S WHIMSICALLY PHILOSOPHICAL, SHAPE-SHIFTING STRUCTURE INGENIOUSLY WEAVES TOGETHER THE REAL, THE VIRTUAL, AND THE SURREAL. ITS STAR-CROSSED, WEB-PAIRED METALLIC PROTAGONISTS — INHABITED IN DIFFERENT FORMS BY KRISTEN STEWART AND STEVEN YEUN — AWKWARDLY NAVIGATE ROMANCE AND COMPANIONSHIP, EQUIPPED ONLY WITH UNTOLD PETABYTES OF ARCHIVED WEB DATA, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND ONLINE VIDEOS. AWASH IN THESE MEDIATED EXPERIENCES AND FABRICATED EXPRESSIONS OF LOVE AND IDENTITY, THEY YEARN TO UNDERSTAND WHO THEY ARE, WHETHER THEIR FEELINGS ARE REAL, AND FOR THAT MATTER, WHETHER THEY ARE REAL. – SUNDANCE