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ALL THAT'S LEFT OF EDDIE
Helen is determined to give her late husband Eddie one final ride: a motorcycle trip to Glacier National Park to scatter his ashes. But the 80 year old has no intention of making the journey alone. During a court-ordered stint in community service, she meets Jimena, a struggling young artist facing eviction after being stiffed out of $35,000 by her sleazy art dealer, Doug. Helen sees a solution to both their predicaments. Helen has the money to buy Jimena’s companionship. And besides, Jimena could use a change of scenery.
They hit the road, Jimena on a Honda with sidecar tagging behind Helen’s Harley. But the uneasy arrangement becomes even more volatile when, at a Utah roadhouse, to Jimena’s horror, Helen impulsively invites Sam, an outlaw biker, to join the caravan. Soon after, in Provo, Helen’s emotionally fragile son Robbie climbs into the sidecar, turning the trip into an increasingly chaotic traveling circus.
As the mismatched crew barrels toward Montana, they endure confrontations with a violent biker gang, an awkward encounter with Eddie’s longtime mistress, a befuddled Idaho state trooper, boorish college students, and relentless FaceTime calls from Doug, all while exposing one another’s idiocies, loneliness, and buried grief.
But when they finally reach Glacier, Helen reveals the truth: she already dumped Eddie’s ashes days earlier into a toxic pit outside Butte. From the urn she produces a single spliff laced with the last of Eddie’s remains, which the group shares in a strange, bittersweet act of forgiveness before going their separate ways.
Bio
A native of Southern California, Jill D’Agnenica grew up escaping into stories in books and on television in the kitchens of her family’s restaurants. She is now an award winning filmmaker and visual artist working in Los Angeles as a director and editor.
The Los Angeles Times called LIFE INSIDE OUT, Jill’s directorial debut, “a gentle, poignant drama whose heart and head are squarely in the right place...with tender direction by Jill D’Agnenica.” LIFE INSIDE OUT premiered at the 2013 Heartland Film Festival where it won both the Crystal Heart Award for Narrative Feature and Best Premiere. It went on to screen at 21 festivals, receiving 16 awards. Jill has since directed a series of PSAs for the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, music and art videos, and her first episode of television on Freeform’s SWITCHED AT BIRTH. Her tragi-comic absurdist short, A DOG’S STORY, is currently making the festival rounds.
As an editor, Jill has crafted over 80 hours of prime-time television on shows including the new PARTY OF FIVE (Freeform), HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER (ABC), LUCIFER (Fox), PRETTY LITTLE LIARS (Freeform), SWITCHED AT BIRTH (Freeform), and UNDERCOVERS (NBC).
Jill holds a BA in History from UCLA and an MFA in Visual Art from Claremont Graduate University. She is a faculty member at American Film Institute and enjoys opportunities to contribute as a guest lecturer, panelist, and mentor to fellow filmmakers and artists.
