VAGABOND STARS
2023; audio dramaWritten & Directed by Marina Michelson
Produced by David Brundige and Marina Michelson
Cinematography by Lowell A. Meyer
Edited by David Brundige
Production Design by Emily Scott Simpson
Original Score by Josh Lim
Sound Design by Chase Everett
Casting by Marin Hope, C.S.A
Starring
Spenser Granese
Chloe Weppe
Briana Venkus
Ramiz Monsef
Marina Michelson
with Aaron Smith, Angel Halford, Michael Ashley, Patricio Cabrera-Sanchez
Logline
An amateur Yiddish Theater troupe in 1930s Eastern Europe is haunted by a dybbuk from the future while on the run from Stalin’s Secret Police.
Synopsis
When struggling podcaster Leah sustains a head injury, she is knocked back through time and space and wakes up in the body of a teenage boy in 1930s Eastern Europe. On one hand—what the hell is going on? But on the other—she has found her way into the exact time and place she was researching for her podcast! She quickly meets the great Soviet Yiddish Theater director Gershon Khomsky, who might be the only person who knows why her great-grandfather disappeared. But solving the mystery of her great-grandfather’s disappearance gets even more complicated when she realizes Khomsky is using his amateur theater group to hide from Stalin’s Secret Police.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Maryland Film Festival 2021 (World Premiere)
Brooklyn Film Festival 2021
Berkshires International Film Festival 2021
Portland Film Festival 2021
NOMINATED
Artios Award for Best Ensemble
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