When Cleo receives an ominous alert on her phone, she finds herself counting down the moments until she and her children can be reunited; CLEO FROM 8:20 TO 2:35 is a chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life.
Cleo has six hours and fifteen minutes between drop off and pick up. This is when she gets to be herself — the adult version of herself, away from her two young children. She wants to be sexy for her husband, practical when running errands, competent when at work. But when she receives an ominous alert on her phone, Cleo finds herself counting down the moments until she and her children can be reunited. CLEO FROM 8:20 TO 2:35 is a chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life.
Shaina Feinberg (she/they) is an award-winning American filmmaker and writer. She spent her twenties making a stoner, punk sketch show called The Spew. She has been on This American Life, was a resident at Space on Ryder Farms (2018) and Twenty Summers (2021), a Reel Families for Change grantee (2022) and a recipient of the Reboot Studios grant (2023). Her short doc, A Brief History of Hating My Face (2023), was commissioned by The New York Times. She has written for The New Yorker, Washington Post, Tablet and writes regularly for the New York Times. Her third book, Work, is due out in December 2024. Her films and books have been written about in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Bust, Broadly, Logo, THEM, Indiewire and more. She lives in Brooklyn with her partner and their two children.
Premiere - Aspen Shortsfest 2024
Provincetown Film Festival 2024
NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music 2024 - Winner
Theatre MOME Grant 2024 - Winner
Actor - Sophie Amieva
