About the Film: Crooked Finger

After the sudden deaths of her aging parents, Maria Gallucci returns to her childhood home on Cape Cod (Massachusetts). When Maria's estranged brother Nico (and his older girlfriend Sigrid) show up to help sort out the estate, tensions soon rise about how to best sell the decrepit house. While Maria and Sigrid forge an unexpected friendship, Nico's emotional volatility becomes increasingly unstable. Is it the effects of an old brain injury, the toll of revisiting past family traumas, or something related to the strange vibrating hum that only Maria seems to hear?

About the Directors

Julia Halperin - Julia Halperin received a Gotham Award nomination for Breakthrough Director for NOW FORAGER (2012), which premiered at IFF Rotterdam and New Directors/New Films. Her follow-up feature BARRACUDA premiered in competition at SXSW and Cairo IFF in 2017 and was acquired by Samuel Goldwyn/Orion/MGM. Her work has been supported by Venice Biennale College, The Gotham, Austin Film Society, IFF Rotterdam CineMart, MacDowell, and Yaddo. Julia is an assistant professor of directing and production at Emerson College.

Jason Cortlund - Jason Cortlund wrote, co-directed, and starred in the Gotham-nominated drama NOW FORAGER (2012). His follow-up feature BARRACUDA premiered in competition at SXSW and Cairo IFF in 2017 and was acquired by Samuel Goldwyn/Orion/MGM. Jason was a postgraduate fellow at the James A. Michener Center for Writers; his work has been supported by Venice Biennale College, The Gotham, Austin Film Society, IFF Rotterdam CineMart, Centrum Institute, MacDowell, and Yaddo.