ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS presents " THE FUTURE " A FILM BY MIRANDA JULY Germany / USA, 2011, 35mm / color / 1.85:1, Dolby SRD, 91 min Written and Directed by: Miranda July Cast: Hamish Linklater………………Jason Miranda July…………………...Sophie David Warshofsky……………..Marshall Isabella Acres………………….Gabriella Joe Putterlik……………………Joe, The Moon Crew: Produced by: Gina Kwon, Roman Paul, Gerhard Meixner Executive Producer: Sue Bruce-Smith Co-Producer: Chris Stinson Director of Photography: Nikolai von Graevenitz Production Designer: Elliott Hostetter Editor: Andrew Bird Costume Designer: Christie Wittenborn Music by: Jon Brion Casting By: Jeanne McCarthy, Nicole Abellera Music Supervisor: Margaret Yen Associate Producers: Mary Prendergast, Rod Smith, Aaron Beckum Logline The Future tells the story of a thirty-something couple who, on deciding to adopt a stray cat, change their perspective on life, literally altering the course of time and testing their faith in each other and themselves.
THE FUTURE: DOMESTIC THEATRICAL TRAILER (VO) - FILM CLIPS (VO): " Control the Prosecution" - " You Want Out" - " Help Your Mother" - " I Just Can't" -
Writer and director, Miranda July, on the set of THE FUTURE. Photo Courtesy of Roadside Attractions Miranda July Miranda July is a filmmaker, artist, and writer. Her videos, performances, and web-based projects have been presented at sites such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and in two Whitney Biennials. July wrote, directed and starred in her first feature-length film, Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), which won a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival and four prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, including the Caméra d'Or. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper’s, and The New Yorker; her collection of stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You (Scribner, 2007), won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and has been published in twenty countries. July created the participatory website, learningtoloveyoumore, with artist Harrell Fletcher and a companion book was published in 2007 (Prestel); the work is now in the collection of The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Eleven Heavy Things, an interactive sculpture garden she designed for the 2009 Venice Biennale, was on view in Union Square in New York in the summer of 2010. Raised in Berkeley, California, she currently lives in Los Angeles. Her new movie, The Future, premieres this year at the Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals. Jon Brion (Composer) In a decade, Jon Brion’s film and music career has developed in exponential proportions. Brion is a singer, songwriter, composer, music producer and instrumentalist. As a film composer, he recently scored the hit comedy The Other Guys (2010) starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, along with films such as Synecdoche, New York (2008), Step Brothers (2008), The Break-Up (2006), I Heart Huckabees (2004), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Punch-Drunk Love (2002) and Magnolia (1999). High in demand as a producer and studio musician, Brion has worked with artists that include Kanye West, Dido, Macy Gray, Rufus Wainwright, The Crystal Method, Jude Cole, Susanna Hoffs, Sam Phillips and the Eels. Brion contributed much of the sound on Aimee Mann’s two solo albums, and also produced Fiona Apple’s debut album Tidal, as well as much of her second album. In addition to his collaboration with top artists, Brion as a performer released his first solo album, Meaningless, in 2001. Miranda July as Sophie and Hamish Linklater as Jason, in THE FUTURE, written and directed by Miranda July. Photo Courtesy of Roadside Attractions