{"id":23870,"date":"2021-12-30T15:01:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T22:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/?post_type=film&p=23870"},"modified":"2022-01-01T10:43:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T17:43:24","slug":"the-roommate","status":"publish","type":"film","link":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/film\/the-roommate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Roommate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When Alexis is laid off from her job in New York City, she impulsively decides to reboot her life by moving to the cultural boomtown of Austin, Texas. She responds to a \u201cRoommate Wanted\u201d ad, quickly lines up a place to live, and is eager to commence the next chapter in her life.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when she arrives\u2014amid one of Austin\u2019s famous citywide music festivals\u2014her roommate, Brenda, is nowhere to be found, and Alexis embarks on a search for a woman she\u2019s never met that takes her beneath Austin\u2019s sunny surface into the neon labyrinth of its music scene. The farther she follows Brenda\u2019s trail, the harder it gets for her to know who to trust\u2014or whether she can trust anyone at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shot in iconic Austin venues just before COVID crushed the music world, The Roommate combines\u00a0the mystery, mood and themes of\u00a0film noir\u00a0with a dark psychedelic rock score that acts as the pulse of a kaleidoscopic city\u00a0to explore the underbelly of gentrification and the sharing economy. Alexis travels down the rabbit hole from the sunshine-daydream veneer of Austin, into bars and clubs filled with shady characters who put a sinister twist on the motto \u201cKeep Austin Weird.\u201d \u00a0It\u2019s a trip that will keep you guessing until the last frame.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director Biography –\u00a0Curtis Pollock<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Curtis Pollock, founder of the Yellow House Studios, is an award-winning director and producer as well as an accomplished writer, videographer, and editor. Having studied theatre in college and gotten his start in television (on shows such as Michael Moore\u2019s The Awful Truth, Saturday Night Live, and Survivor), Curtis is essentially a self-taught filmmaker and The Roommate is his feature film directorial debut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curtis has since produced the 2015 SXSW Grand Jury Award\u2013winning narrative short film The Samaritans. And he and the Yellow House Studios have produced live satellite broadcasts for National Geographic\u2019s Earth: Live and Amazon Prime, and shot the PBS documentary The Paley-James Project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since deciding to call the \u201cLive Music Capital of the World\u201d home and establishing Yellow House in Austin in 2007, Curtis has been fortunate enough to develop strong relationships in the Austin music community and has directed music videos and captured live performances for touring artists (including Steely Dan, Eminem, and the Flaming Lips) as well as hometown favorites (such as Willie Nelson, Gary Clark Jr.,and the Black Angels).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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