Ex Patria
Ex Patria is an Official Selection of Deep in the Heart Film Festival
Ex Patria, directed by Scott Cobb, starring Shelby Graham and Rebecca Karpovsky, with Cinematography by Colemar Nichols and edited by Stanley Thai has been accepted to screen at the 2021 Deep in the Heart Film Festival.
Logline: Ilyana offers a last souvenir to Erica on the final day of their year junior year abroad, sparking a discussion of values and identity with their futures on the line.
The Deep in the Heart Film Festival is an event with film screenings, panels, workshops, and after-parties for the Waco community to enjoy.
The event will be available in-person at the Waco Hippodrome from July 22-25, and also online July 25-31.
The Ilyanica Trilogy
The Ilyanica Trilogy tells the story of two friends, Ilyana and Erica, who met as college students studying in Berlin in 2005 when they are 20. Ilyana offers a last souvenir to Erica on the final day of their study abroad year, sparking a discussion of values and identity with their futures on the line. They meet up again ten years later in Austin, Texas in a drained out pool where Erica seeks to win Ilyana’s renewed companionship by showing her a film she made of an important incident in their lives. Finally, they meet in their 40s in an abandoned prison in Poland where Ilyana has become involved with a group of radicals occupying the site where the U.S. tortured people in the 2000s.
Written and Directed by Scott Cobb. All cinematography by Colemar Nichols.
“Ex Patria” stars Shelby Graham as Ilyana and Rebecca Karpovsky as Erica.
“The There” stars Venus Monique as Ilyana and Teresa May Nichta as Erica.
“Ilyanica” stars Circe Sturm as Ilyana and Cynthia Fray as Erica.
Ex Patria Accepted to 2020 Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival
Ilyana offers a last souvenir to Erica on the final day of their year junior year abroad, sparking a discussion of values and identity with their futures on the line.
Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival is committed to presenting nationally and internationally acclaimed narrative fiction, documentary, animated and experimental films and filmmakers with truly original voices.
1/25/20 3:15pm at Cité des Arts on Lafayette, Louisiana.