| Between Floors | |
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| Directed by | Jen White |
| Produced by | Jen White Paul Alvarado-Dykstra Jim Walters IV |
| Written by | Jen White |
| Starring | Michael D. Conway Anika Kunik Kathryn MaGill Ryan Wickerham Brent Smiga Jim Walters IV Scott Bate |
| Music by | Spencer Gibb Stewart Cochran |
| Cinematography | Jen White |
| Studio | UNCFilms |
| Release date(s) | August 30, 2009 (Atlanta Underground) |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Between Floors is a 2009 American award winning independent film that is currently making its way through the festival circuit which was produced and directed by Jen White and executive produced by Paul Alvarado-Dykstra, co-founder of Fantastic Fest
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Between Floors examines the human condition through a uniquely claustrophobic lens, inter-cutting between five stuck elevators and the people trapped inside them. Each elevator becomes an existential purgatory, forcing its occupants to not only confront their isolation, but themselves and each other in varied and unexpected ways.
Taking place entirely in five elevators, Between Floors is as unusual as it is arresting, blurring the lines of genre, tone and form while its characters are stripped bare – trapped, alone, waiting – and we get to watch what happens.
The film was edited from hour-long, structured improvisations, shot in working elevators. Each scene plays out in a single shot, with the only editing being from scene to scene.[1]
The reception for the movie has been largely positive. Jen White won best director in the 2009 Atlanta Underground Film Festival[2] and the 2010 Strasbourg International Film Festival in Strasbourg France.[3][4] The movie has won best feature film at the 2010 Magnolia Film Festival[5] with praise given to the high quality of the acting of the cast, and is a great "watch with a crowd" film.[6][7] Between Floors also won best narrative feature at the Hardacre Film Festival[8] and the 2010 Salem Film Festival in Salem Oregon.[9][10] Between Floors has also been featured in the Boston Film Festival[11], The San Francisco Women's Film Festival[12], and screened during the 2010 Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers[13][14]