Booger (2024)
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Director: Mary Dauterman Run Time: 78 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2024
Starring: Garrick Bernard, Grace Glowicki, Heather Matarazzo, Marcia DeBonis, Sofia Dobrushin
Country: United States
Language: English
About the film:
After her best friend Izzy unexpectedly dies in a bike accident, Anna struggles to put the pieces back together. Before she even has a chance to process, Booger, Izzy’s cat, escapes the Brooklyn apartment they used to share. As she turns her already unstable life upside down looking for him, a gnarly cat bite results in terrifying and surprising physical changes. Anna must face her grief head on before it consumes her completely.
“Dauterman wisely uses genre elements to visualize and augment the often visceral impact of maintaining (and losing) close female friendships.”
– Joe Lipsett, Bloody Disgusting
About the filmmaker:
Booger (2024) is Mary Dauterman’s debut feature. In 2022, she participated in the Tribeca Festival Creators Market. Her short films have been selected for multiple Vimeo Staff Picks and screened at 30+ festivals including Palm Springs, Maryland, Rooftop, Montclair, Fantasia, and Fantastic Fest. Her work has been featured on NoBudge, Vulture, and TEDWomen, as well as honored by the Webbys and covered by NPR, Vice, New York Magazine, and CNN. She’s written and directed projects for Adult Swim, won best director at Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, and was commissioned by 20th Century Digital Studios to write and direct a short in collaboration with Skittles, which premiered on Hulu. She was named part of SHOOT Magazine’s New Directors showcase in 2019 and was recognized as an ADC Young Gun in 2018 for her body of work. Her commercial work has been honored by the Cannes Lions, the One Show, and D&AD.
She is originally from Texas, attended the University of Texas at Austin, and lives in Brooklyn with multiple cats. She is represented for film and TV by Lindsay Cohen at Rise.
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