Jennifer Prediger
Nacimiento : 1977-01-15, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
Historia
Prediger's first film role was as an out-of-town guest and temptress in 'Uncle Kent', a film directed by Joe Swanberg that premiered at Sundance in 2011 and was purchased by IFC. She has also gone to Sundance with three other films - as the composting love interest in 'The Foxy Merkins' in 2014 (dir. Madeleine Olnek), the nosy roommate in 'A Teacher' in 2013 (dir. Hannah Fidell) and as the tentative Vice Principal in 'First Girl I Loved' in 2016 (dir. Kerem Sanga). Jennifer plays an obsessed cinephile in the Gotham Award nominated comedy 'Red Flag' (dir. Alex Karpovsky), released by Tribeca Film. Jennifer is the star of the dark comedy 'Living Room Coffin' and the site specific fringe festival playwright in the upcoming feature 'Hollywood Fringe'. Prediger also has leading roles in 'Richard's Wedding' and 'Applesauce' (dir. Onur Tukel) and 'Pollywogs' (dir. Karl Jacob).
Jennifer plays a lusty doctor in 'The Strange Eyes of Dr. Myes' (dir. Nancy Andrews) which won a Gotham Award for Breakout Series. She also appears in 'Uncle Kent 2' (dir. Todd Rohal) and '7 Chinese Brothers', 'Infinity Baby' and 'Frances Ferguson' (dir. Bob Byington) - all of which premiered at SXSW. She plays opposite Max Casella in Applesauce (dir. Onur Tukel) which premiered at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival.
'Apartment Troubles' (formerly Trouble Dolls) is her first feature film as a director and writer, co-directed and written with Jess Weixler. The film stars Prediger and Weixler and features Megan Mullally, Will Forte and Jeffrey Tambor, and was released by Gravitas in spring 2015 and aired on Showtime. She also produced 'Song of Back and Neck' (dir. Paul Lieberstein) that premiered at Tribeca in 2018.
Renae
En un pobre suburbio del oeste medio de los Estados Unidos, un punkarra llamado Simon (Kyle Gallner) se da a la fuga después de cometer un delito y de algún que otro problema con la policía. Un encuentro accidental con la excéntrica Patty (Emily Skeggs) le proporciona un lugar para esconderse, aunque ella no se da cuenta de que acaba de conocer al líder de su banda musical favorita. A medida que ambos se embarcan en una serie de desastrosas aventuras, comienzan a darse cuenta de que tienen mucho más en común de lo que habían imaginado en un principio.
Mom
Frances Ferguson, the eponymous character at the center of Bob Byington’s new film, is discontent. Like a lot of us, she does a bit of “acting out” and pays the price —an arrest, a trial, incarceration. And then a new identity, one that’s not terribly comfortable. Nick Offerman narrates this deviant comedy, based on actual events.
Iris Hawthorn
In this dark comedy, a young woman has her quiet life turned upside down when she receives an empty coffin in the mail. She then sets off on a twisting journey to find out who sent it and why.
Producer
A hapless man seeking treatment for his crippling back pain discovers a very unusual talent and unexpected love.
Ms. Elkins
A una pequeña ciudad del sur de Florida llega la misteriosa Josie, que comienza a entablar relaciones con un joven punk local, Marcus, y con su solitario vecino Hank. Rápidamente la atractiva chica llena de tatuajes se convierte en el principal cotilleo de la localidad. Pero sus verdaderas intenciones para estar en la ciudad son mucho más siniestras cuando su oscuro pasado sale a la luz.
Billy
FFF alumnus Leah Shore (“Old Man,” FFF 2013) brings us yet another unique tale—this time, about a pregnant woman who can see and talk to the adorable cartoon ghost of her dead husband.
Emily
On the heels of booking a life-changing motion picture, a film director drives away his girlfriend and aggressively re-enters the LA dating scene.
Lydia
Una comedia sobre bebés que no envejecen.
Female Shopper
A struggling writer can't seem to escape his wife's literary success. When a road trip to a publisher's salon takes an unexpected turn, he has to face his own creative shortcomings and find a way to regain control of his life and work.
Assistant Principal Heather Wiggins
Anne es un joven de 17 años que vive con su madre soltera. Mientras cubre un partido de softball del instituto, se enamora de Sasha, la guapa estrella del equipo. Las dos chicas se conocen cayéndose mutuamente bien y rápidamente se hacen amigas. Pero cuando Anne comparte con entusiasmo su atracción por Sasha con su mejor amigo Clifton, este que está enamorado de ella, no acepta su recién descubierta sexualidad y hará todo lo posible por interponerse en el camino de su felicidad.
Jenny
In a desperate search to create a follow-up to Joe Swanberg's 2011 film Uncle Kent, Kent Osborne travels to a comic book convention in San Diego where he loses his mind and confronts the end of the world.
Sarah
Un hombre de 40 años con retraso del desarrollo llamado Shonzi es enviado a vivir con su hermano Todd. Pero cuando Shonzi se enamora de Lindsay, la nueva novia de Todd, amenaza con revelar secretos del pasado que podrían acabar con la pareja…
Kate
Every Tuesday night, radio talk show host Stevie Bricks invites his listeners to call in and share their stories. When one night he asks people to share the worst thing they’ve ever done, high school teacher Ron Welz can't resist. Big mistake—what he reveals sets off a chain of hilariously uncontrollable events adversely affecting his marriage and another couple. And when someone starts sending him body parts, his life really begins to fall apart. Who is tormenting him? An insolent high school student? His best friend? His wife? There are over eight million people in the Naked City, and everyone's a suspect.
Woman with Glasses
Larry, que tras ser despedido de su trabajo, con la ayuda de su amigo, las regañinas de su abuela y su amor por el alcohol, intenta encontrar un trabajo estable. Al final termina como técnico de Quick Lube y termina enamorándose de su jefa. Para esta tarea cuenta con la compañía de Tunde Adebimpe, Olympia Dukakis y Eleanore Pienta.
Doll House Love Interest
A has-been New York rock-star teams up with a wannabe filmmaker to destroy hipster culture in New York... if they don't destroy each other first.
Carol Humphrey
A young woman's sister goes missing. She then sets out on a quest through Brooklyn to find her on her own, enlisting the help of a motley crew of New York weirdos.
Dr. Linda Wiley
Dr. Sheri Myes survives the bombing of her home by protesters, but is changed forever by this traumatic experience. Isolated by her obsessions, she functions in a reality of her own creation. She is on the verge of a scientific breakthrough, grafting animal senses to her brain to regain the profundity of her near-death experience. Just when Dr. Myes is poised to succeed, she loses everything and must climb back up from the bottom using unconventional means. This hybrid of animation, songs, and live-action narrative follows the research of Dr. Sheri Myes and her attempts to expand human consciousness.
Olivia
Two codependent roommates, on the verge of eviction, flee New York for the promise of sunshine in Los Angeles where their friendship is tested by a chance at fame, a fortune teller and an amorous wealthy aunt.
Director
Two codependent roommates, on the verge of eviction, flee New York for the promise of sunshine in Los Angeles where their friendship is tested by a chance at fame, a fortune teller and an amorous wealthy aunt.
Writer
Two codependent roommates, on the verge of eviction, flee New York for the promise of sunshine in Los Angeles where their friendship is tested by a chance at fame, a fortune teller and an amorous wealthy aunt.
Marshall's Assistant
Los hechos ocurren quince años antes de lo narrado en "Jackie Brown". Ordell Robbie y Louis Gara se conocen en la cárcel, a donde han ido a parar por culpa de su afición a robar coches. Una vez en libertad, organizan un gran golpe: el secuestro de la esposa de un rico empresario de Detroit. Con lo que no contaban era con que el marido no tuviese el más mínimo interés en liberarla. Recurren entonces a un plan B, en el que la mujer participará gustosamente para vengarse de su marido.
Sophia
Una maestra joven bastante popular, que da clases en un rico suburbio de una escuela secundaria de Texas, comienza un romance con uno de sus alumnos. Su vida comienza entonces a parecer desmoronarse cuando la relación llega a su fin.
Ashley, Margaret's Composting Girlfriend
Two lesbian hookers wind their way through a world of bargain-hunting housewives and double-dealing conservative women in this buddy comedy, an homage to and riff on iconic male hustler films. Margaret is a down-on-her-luck hooker in training, who meets up with Jo, a beautiful and self-assured grifter from a wealthy family and an expert on servicing women, even as she considers herself proudly heterosexual. The film follows their adventures together on the street, through encounters with husky-voiced seductresses, mumbling erotic accessory salesmen and shopaholic swingers. Navigating the bizarre fetishes and sexual needs of their 'dates' brings into focus the hilarious and pathetic disparity between the two hookers, fellow travelers who will share the road together but only for a while.
Jullie
Left reeling by his latest catastrophic breakup, Dylan retreats to Minnesota for a family reunion featuring firearms, heavy metal and unwelcome questions. Amongst the throng of relatives, he discovers Sarah, the childhood crush he hasn't seen since her family decamped to a religious compound. Could she prove to be the perpetually heartbroken Dylan's salvation or will their emotional scars fail to align?
River
Writer/director/star Alex Karpovsky, a familiar face to indie filmgoers, reveals his sterling comic chops in this close-to-the-bone comedy. Teasing the line between fiction and reality, he plays an indie filmmaker named Alex Karpovsky who, dumped by a longtime girlfriend fed up with his refusal to marry, takes to the road with a reluctant old pal for a misbegotten mini tour screening his movie on college campuses and independent cinemas.
Alex
RICHARD'S WEDDING is an ensemble comedy that explores how the most enduring friendships require a mixture of envy, love and ridiculous egomania disguised as self-contempt. Alex and Tuna are on their way to Richard and Phoebe's wedding, to be reunited with a group of old friends. As they make their trek from Brooklyn to Central Park, they're joined by an ever-increasing number of friends with their own set of misgivings, self-righteousness, and violently annoying iPhone Apps.
Kate
A pothead kid's show cartoonist in Los Angeles spends a weekend trying to sleep with his visiting house guest - a woman from New York who he met on Chatroulette.
Christine
With only a few months to live, a desperate man kidnaps a successful advertising director and makes one demand: Create an online campaign to pay for treatment - or share his fate.
