Deauville American Film Festival 2022: Over/Under | Interview of Director, Co-Writer, and Actresses

We interviewed Sophia Silver, Emajean Bullock, Anastasia Veronica Lee, and Sianni Rosenstock of Over/Under, presented in Competition at the 48th Deauville American Film Festival.

The 48th Deauville American Film Festival, which ran from 2nd September to 11th September 2022 showcased US indie cinema to 2022 festival favorites for its competition line-up. Consisting of 13 films, from Sundance 2022’s Palm Trees and Power Lines, Dual, Watcher, and Emily the Criminal to Cannes 2022 Camera d’Or winner War Ponny, Un Certain Regard’s The Silent Twins and Directors’ Fortnight entry Aftersun, which took home the Special Grand Prize, Over/Under (San Francisco Film Festival 2022), Montana Story (TIFF 2021), Peace in the Valley (Tribeca 2022), Stay Awake (Berlin 2022), with 1-800—Hot-Nite by Nick Richey and Scrap by Vivian Kerr premiering at the festival.

We are thrilled to sit down with the cast and crew of Over/Under: Sophia Silver (director, co-writer), Emajean Bullock (actress), Anastasia Veronica Lee (actress), and Sianni Rosenstock (co-writer) to chat about the film.

Synopsis

“It’s the sum­mer of 2002. Vio­let and Stel­la are nine-years old and insep­a­ra­ble. They spend their days play­ing in waves, catch­ing but­ter­flies, send­ing wish­es to fairies, and spy­ing on nude adults at the beach. But then, the sum­mer ends. Stel­la has friends back home but would rather talk with them about mer­maids than tam­pons. A lone­ly Vio­let attracts the atten­tion of a vicious bul­ly, while silent­ly pro­cess­ing her chang­ing body. Over the next few sum­mers, the girls come togeth­er, but puber­ty, boys, fam­i­ly trau­ma, and the desire to fit in all begin to threat­en the mag­ic of their friendship.”