After taking home the best narrative feature award at SXSW Film Festival this year, Lena Dunham‘s Tiny Furniture was picked up by IFC Films. You may recognize the writer/director/star from Ti West‘s The House of the Devil. She will also be in his next film, The Innkeepers. Tiny Furniture also stars Laurie Simmons, Grace Dunham, Alex Karpovsky, David Call, Merrit Wever and Jemima Kirke.
Synopsis: 22-year-old Aura returns home to her artist mother’s TriBeCa loft with the following: a useless film theory degree, 357 hits on her Youtube page, a boyfriend who’s left her to find himself at Burning Man, a dying hamster, and her tail between her legs. Luckily, her trainwreck childhood best friend never left home, the restaurant down the block is hiring, and ill-advised romantic possibilities lurk around every corner. Aura quickly throws away her liberal-arts clogs and careens into her old/new life: a dead-end hostess job, parties on chilly East Village fire escapes, stealing twenties out of her mother’s Prada purse, pathetic Brooklyn “art shows,” prison-style tattoos done out of sheer boredom, drinking all the wine in her mother’s neatly organized cabinets, competing with her prodigious teenage sister, and desperate sex in a giant metal pipe. Surrounded on all sides by what she could become, Aura just wants someone to tell her who she is.
Tiny Furniture hits theaters November 12th.
What do you think of the trailer? Did you see it at SXSW?