Seventeen-year-old Lea spends her summer break aimlessly tanning in her backyard with her best friend, tiptoeing around her needy mother, and getting stoned with a group of boys from school. This monotony is interrupted by a chance encounter with Tom, an older man who promises an alternative to Lea’s unsatisfying adolescent life. But as things progress between them, red flags about Tom’s life begin to surface, and Lea chooses to ignore them. Under Tom’s influence, Lea begins to see her mom as unfit and her friends as a waste of her time. Isolated from those around her, Lea discovers Tom’s true intentions and finds herself in a situation that she never could have imagined.
Palm Trees and Power Lines
Palm Trees and Power Lines
63rd TIFF: Greek Premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Jamie Dack
- Script: Jamie Dack, Audrey Findlay
- Cinematography: Chananun Chotrungroj
- Editing: Christopher Radcliff
- Sound: Eric Han, Lars Struck
- Actors: Lily McInerny, Jonathan Tucker, Gretchen Mol
- Producers: Leah Chen Baker, Jamie Dack
- Costumes: Aaron Crosby
- Production Design: Yu-Hsuan Chen
- Executive producer: Rae Swirnow, Judith Golden, Rhianon Jones
- Make Up: Kathryn Fernandez, Sophie Muth Guzman, Edder Sandoval
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: USA
- Production Year: 2022
- Duration: 110΄
- Contact: Film Constellation
- Awards/Distinctions: Directing Award – Sundance Film Festival 2022, Jury Prize – 48th Deauville Film Festival
Jamie Dack
Jamie Dack is a filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. Her debut feature, Palm Trees and Power Lines, premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival where Jamie won the Directing Award for the U.S. Dramatic Competition. Her short film of the same name premiered at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival as a Cinéfondation selection. She is a 2020 Film Independent Fast Track Fellow and was selected for Panavision's New Filmmaker Program. She received her MFA from New York University’s Tisch graduate film program.
Filmography
2016 Horizon Diner (short)
2022 Palm Trees And Power Lines