"In a near-abandoned subdivision west of Houston, a wayward teen runs headlong into her equally willful and unforgiving neighbor, an aging bullfighter who’s seen his best days in the arena; it’s a collision that will change them both." "Bull" will have its world premiere in the festival's Un Certain Regard section.
If you caught Sliverstein's terrific short film "Skunk" when it was streaming on FilmStruck, you have some sense of this filmmaker's mastery of the filmic narrative form. The film won top prize in Cannes's Cinéfondation category five years ago.
Writer/director Annie Silverstein is an award winning filmmaker and youth worker based in Austin, Texas. Her films have screened at international festivals including Cannes, SXSW, Silverdocs and on PBS Independent Lens. Her latest film, Skunk, won the jury award at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival–Cinéfondation. Before attending film school, Annie spent ten years as a youth worker and media educator, collaborating on community film based projects with Native American youth on reservations across Washington State.
Silverstein co-founded and served as Artistic Director at Longhouse Media, an indigenous film organization based in Seattle. For her work there, Annie received the National Association for Media Literacy Award for outstanding contributions made in the field of media education. Annie is currently a lecturer at the University of Texas-Austin, where she earned her MFA in Film Production. She’s been named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine (2014), Annie is a recipient of the San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Foundation Grant. She was selected for the Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Labs, and received the Time Warner Fellowship.
