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Under the Midnight Sun

Directed by Lisa Hammer

A mentally ill girl, provoked by her talking chicken handbag, stalks and eats a country singer.

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Synopsis

Emily struggles with dissociative personality disorder and paranoid schizophrenia. During moments of crisis, she hears her rubber chicken purse, whom she calls Chickenbag, speaking to her. Chickenbag fills her thoughts with conspiracies and plans for escaping her painful reality by becoming a famous country singer at her local nightclub. In a misguided attempt to embody her fantasy, Emily stalks and kidnaps her favorite singer, and Chickenbag encourages her to consume the singer's flesh to truly become her and escape her torment.

Bio

Lisa Hammer is a NY independent filmmaker best known as the voice of Triana Orpheus on Adult Swim's cartoon "The Venture Bros." Hammer's film, "Empire of Ache" is included in the "Joanie4Jackie" collection run by Miranda July, recently acquired by The Getty Museum. Lisa has collaborated with Ben Edlund ("Firefly," "The Tick") and Doc Hammer ("The Venture Bros") and with James Merendino ("SLC Punk!"). Hammer has directed such outstanding talents as Clayne Crawford, James Duval, Aarti Mann, H. Jon Benjamin, Jonathan Katz, Eve Plumb, Courtney Love, Thurston Moore, and Arden Myrin. Past projects include a biographical rock and roll series "Maybe Sunshine" (Directed by Levi Wilson, now on ROKU/SeekaTV) and a musical comedy feature film ""The Sisters Plotz"" with Eve Plumb (screened at NYWIFT/Anthology Film Archives/The Egyptian Theater). Hammer is executive producer and editor on a new feature film "Montauk," starring Molly Ringwald, Charlie Tahan ("Ozark"), Sadie Calvano ("Mom") to be released in 2025, and asst. editor on a comedy feature "Out of Order" starring Brooke Shields, Sandra Bernhart, Luis Guzman and Brendan Routh, for release in 2025. She is co-creator, co-star and DP and additional editor on the series "Great Kills" (on Amazon TV). She is executive producer and editor of "Luke and Emma and a Gas Station on Franklin Avenue," working with her husband, Levi Wilson. This short film is being developed as a feature film and was recently acquired by AMC+. Hammer recently worked with Cathy Moriarty, Lou Diamond Phillips, Bai Ling and Eric Roberts on Season 2 of “Great Kills” and another indie film. Hammer was recently honored at a screening of her film “Empire of Ache” for "Future is Female" at the Nighthawk Cinema, and is featured in Heidi Honeycutt's book "I Spit on Your Celluloid" and the French film journal OpticalSound n° 09.

Awards History

London Womens Film Festival - Finalist best short screenplay 2024

Credits

Actor - Gabrielle Sterbenz

Cinematographer - Levi Wilson

Producer - Dylan Mars Greenberg