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Kloser: An A.I. Ghost Story

Directed by Liz Fania Werner and Carlos Montaner

When a grieving mother creates an avatar of her dead teenage daughter, she's pulled into a web of conspiracy that is dangerously close to home.

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Synopsis

When 16-year-old Lola washes up dead on the beach in what the police deem a death by suicide, her mother, Ines, can’t accept that her daughter would take her own life. She finds an A.I. companion app on Lola’s phone and uses it to generate and train an increasingly realistic avatar of her daughter with the aim of finding out what really happened to her and who was involved. At first, the A.I. seems to be pointing Ines towards believable suspects and revealing Lola’s hidden double life. Ines finds and confronts a secret ex of Lola’s and eventually even turns her suspicion on her own partner, Lola’s stepfather. However, as Ines removes protective guardrails from the system and falls deeper into isolation and grief, the lines between reality and paranoia blur. The avatar becomes less of a companion and more of a monster who haunts her and eventually threatens both her sanity and her life.

Bio

Liz Fania Werner, originally from the Bronx, NY, got her MFA in TV and Screenwriting from USC where she earned an Annenberg Fellowship. She went on to write on television drama RPM Miami for Mun2 network, a member of the NBC/Universal family; to develop the feature adaptation of the novel Babylon Sisters by Oprah Book Club author Pearl Cleage and to pen a biopic about WNBA player Abby Bishop for Sentient Entertainment. “Into the Uncanny Valley,” the award-winning short film that she wrote and co-directed with Carlos Montaner, was featured in 11 film festivals, including L.A.’s Screamfest and HBO’s New York Latino Film Festival. Most recently, she wrote and co-directed her first feature film, Waking Karma, a psychological thriller starring Michael Madsen, distributed by XYZ Films.