Brut Force

Directed By Eve Symington

Newly-fired reporter Sloane Sawyer reluctantly returns to her rural California hometown to investigate the harassment of local vineyard workers and uncorks a tangled web of crime and corruption behind wine country's shiny façade.

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Newly-fired reporter Sloane Sawyer hears that someone has been harassing vineyard workers in her hometown, so she starts investigating. When haunting beauty Dulce goes missing and the alluring Tico Reyes shows up looking for her, Sloane is drawn down a twisting trail of violence and crime, determined to help those she's come to care about in this town... before it's too late.

Eve started making films when she discovered a video camera in her basement at the age of eleven. Her first feature film BRUT FORCE, a wine country thriller distributed by XYZ Films, is available to rent/buy on Amazon, AppleTV and more! BRUT FORCE has a 100% fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes and comes recommended by the New York Times.

Eve has backpacked solo to nineteen countries and visited twenty more. After graduating with a B.A. in Film Studies from Columbia University, Eve's twin passions for film and travel came together at New York University’s Tisch Asia program in Singapore, where she earned her MFA. Her thesis short Tether, filmed in Guatemala, screened at Palm Springs, Rhode Island, and Newport Beach. Eve is based in Los Angeles, where she spent several years assisting producer/director Rob Lorenz (AMERICAN SNIPER, MILLION DOLLAR BABY). She directs commercials, produces branded videos for BuzzFeed (clients include McDonald’s, Subway, Visit California, General Mills), and has produced films for the AFI Directing Workshop for Women and the Alliance of Women Directors.

Eve's debut screenplay CALIFORNIANAS was an Academy Nicholls Fellowship Semifinalist and a Slamdance Competition Semifinalist. Her comedy ORIENTATION was an Austin Competition Finalist and was selected for the Women at Sundance Financing Intensive. She is developing and packaging a horror feature titled SUNDOWN, which is currently a Shore Finalist, Slamdance Semifinalist, Vail Semifinalist, and in the top 1% on Coverfly, and a tension thriller called SCRATCH.