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ARE WE NOT CATS is a feature film about
Two strangers who spark romance through their unusual habit.
STARRING
Michael Patrick Nicholson
Chelsea Lopez
Michael Godere
FEATURING
Adeline Thery
Tuffy Questall
Ernst Zorin
Marika Daciuk
Charles Gould
Joe Buldo
Theodore Boloukos
Alex Goldberg
Kelsea Dakota
Willy Muse
Bill Weeden
Tony Cuestas
Dean Holtermann
Alice Frank
MUSIC SUPERVISOR
Garret H. Morris
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY
PRODUCED BY
Joshua Sobel
Theo Brooks
Xander Robin
CINEMATOGRAPHY
COSTUME DESIGN
ART DIRECTION
Serban Ionescu
J. Mcdonald
Justin Murphy
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Tom Davia
CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
Mario Kenyon
CO-PRODUCERS
Garret H. Morris
Judith Posey
EDITING
Dustin Waldman
Xander Robin
SPECIAL FX MAKEUP
Jeremy Selenfriend
Lisa Forst
COLOR
SOUND MIX
Steve Giammaria
REVIEWS
“The tonal shifts leave you with a horror story that's earnestly sweet, a romantic comedy with a scene of shocking gore, and a directorial debut that makes Xander Robin someone to watch out for.”
"The sensory detail of the film as whole is incredible. You can feel the wind, smell the exhaust, taste the cheap food... The world is richly, absurdly textured."
“Lopez invests Anya’s attitude-and-artifice exterior with something shy and raw and sad... like the inside-out Rapunzel she is. And Nicholson registers a low-key breakout for his rangy, rumpled riff on the lovestruck, questing Prince. He doesn’t write a single line but exudes the soulful, scuzzy romance of a beat poet.”
“Are We Not Cats is short, bizarre and to the point... the singular aesthetic is gritty, beautiful and expressive, and somehow, you want to root for the love story of Eli and Anya, thanks to the charismatic performances of Nicholson and Lopez.”
“The roots of romance are intimately and ickily probed in Xander Robin's debut feature Are We Not Cats, a distinctive New York indie that's promising and uncompromising in roughly equal measure”
"Robin and cinematographer Matt Clegg balance on-the-fly naturalism with a heightened reality, infusing ordinary encounters with dry wit and absurdist verve"
PREVIOUS SCREENINGS
WORLD PREMIERE
2016 Venice Film Festival, Critics Week
SCREENINGS
2016 Oldenburg Film Festival, Germany
2016 /Slash Film Festival, Vienna Austria
2016, Sitges Film Festival, Catalonia Spain
2016, Chicago International Film Festival, Illinois
2016 New Orleans Film Festival, Louisiana
2016 Morbido Film Festival, Mexico City
2016 Indie Memphis Film Festival, Tennessee
2016 Cucalorus Film Festival, Wilmington, North Carolina
2016 Stockholm International Film Festival, Sweden
2017 Richmond Film Festival
2017 Miami Film Festival, Florida
2017 Sarasota Film Festival, Florida
2017 Imagine Film Festival, Netherlands
2017 Calgary Underground Film Festival, Canada
2017 American Essentials Film Festival, Australia
2017 Revelation Perth International Film Festival, Australia
2017 Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, South Korea
2017 Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival, Birmingham Alabama
2017 Arizona Underground Film Festival
2017 Splat Film Festival, Poland
2017 Morbido Merida Film Festival
AWARDS
Best Narrative Feature - Imagine Film Festival 2017
Best Narrative Feature - Sidewalk Film Festival 2017
Jury Award - Arizona Underground Film Festival 2017
Special Jury Mention - Noves Visions Plus - Sitges Film FestivaL 2016
Jury & Audience Award for Best Poster Design - Indie Memphis 2016
2018 THEATRICAL RUN
February 23 - March 1st - Cinema Village, New York City
February 23 - March 1st - Laemmle Music Hall, Los Angeles
February 23 - March 1st - Roxie Theater, San Francisco
February 23 - March 1st - Screenland Tapcade, Kansas City
March 9th - 15th - Mayfair Theatre, Ottowa, Canada
March 15, Somerville Theater, Boston
March 30 - April 4th - Arena Cinelounge, Los Angeles
May 16th - Crosstown Arts, Memphis
May 24th - 25th - Cleveland Cinemateque, Cleveland Museum of Art
