Cast & Crew

Lauren Wolkstein (writer/director)

Lauren Wolkstein recently graduated with Honors from Columbia University’s Graduate Film School, where her short film, Cigarette Candy, won Best Narrative Short at SXSW in 2010 and went on to screen at film festivals worldwide garnering multiple awards (http://www.cigarettecandy.com). Lauren received her B.A. in computer science at Duke University, where she also won the Duke Filmmaker Award. She lived in Los Angeles for a year, assisting film producer Chris Hanley at Muse Productions (The Virgin Suicides, American Psycho, Buffalo ’66). Her award-winning short, Dandelion Fall, played at numerous film festivals and was distributed by Wolfe Releasing. She is currently developing two projects with close friend and collaborator Jeff Sousa: the feature version of Cigarette Candy and a television show based loosely on her own high school experiences as a “teenage hacker and spy.” She is also adapting David Foster Wallace’s short story Little Expressionless Animals into a feature that is in development with Plum Pictures producer Galt Niederhoffer.