When Lizzy, a single, down-on-her-luck 35-year-old, can’t open a jar of pasta sauce for her sad-girl-dinner, she goes on a joyfully unhinged journey of self-love, crushing heartbreak, and radical acceptance—all in the name of opening that damn jar.
It’s another shitty night for Lizzy (35), single, alone, and from the post-it on her mirror, struggling to feel like she’s enough. So when Lizzy can’t open a jar of pasta sauce for her sad-girl-dinner, she takes it personally. Lizzy embarks on a joyfully unhinged journey to open it–she sages it, prays to the jar gods, recites affirmations, hits on it, takes it “out” dancing–but it doesn’t budge. Jar is every failed relationship Lizzy has ever had. Finally, in a moment of radical acceptance she opens the jar and discovers the woman within. She is goddess, she is warrior, she is master of her own universe–which happens to be a tiny studio apartment. Not only is jar everything, but so is Lizzy.
Writer-Director Erin Cantelo tells devastatingly uplifting stories about women healing from grief or trauma, with the aim to break your heart wide open. She has spent the majority of her adult life working in various crew positions on film, TV, and commercial sets, racking up thousands of hours of first-hand experience behind and in front of the camera.
With a belief that you must live stories worth telling, Erin is prone to adventure, including a 4-month solo trip to Southeast Asia where she took a 5-day motorbike trip in rural Laos alone, a 10-day silent meditation retreat in Southern Thailand, and a 16-day cargo ship ride home from Hong Kong to California. The latter of which inspired her most recent feature script, CARGO, which is a Stowe Story Labs and WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Labs Finalist.
Erin is a queer, neurodiverse, Muppet at heart, native-Californian based in Los Angeles. She loves tacos, tea, chatting up strangers, and her unbroken-12-years-and-counting, daily meditation practice.
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Actor - Chloe Tuck
Set Dresser - Kelsi Ephraim
Producer - Erin Cantelo & Chloe Tuck
