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Black Christmas

James Room

  • Director: Sophia Takal
  • Writer: Sophia Takal and April Wolfe
  • Type: Features
  • Year: 2020
  • Language: English
  • Length: 92 minutes
  • Screening: Feb 28 10:00 PM

As Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays, sorority girls on campus are being killed by a stalker. In this loose remake of the 1974 Canadian “slasher” classic, the killer is about to discover that today’s generation of fearless women are not willing to become hapless victims.

Filmmaker Bio:
Sophia Takal ’07 wrote, directed and starred in the critically-acclaimed feature film Green (SXSW 2011), which won the SXSW Emerging Female Director award, was nominated for a Gotham Award and is distributed by Factory 25. She recently directed an episode of Into the Dark (2018). Takal produced and starred in Lawrence Michael Levine’s Wild Canaries (SXSW 2014), opposite Alia Shawkat, Jason Ritter and Kevin Corrigan. She also produced, edited and starred in Levine’s Gabi on the Roof in July opposite Kate Lyn Sheil, Amy Seimetz and Lena Dunham.

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