Palm Trees and Power Lines
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.
Age recommendation: 14+
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 she 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 Programme. She received her MFA from New York University’s Tisch graduate film programme.
Filmography
Palm Trees and Power Lines (2022)
