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TALLULAH
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TALLULAH
We all face life-altering turns every day: Do we stay where we are, or strike out on our own? Do we live in
anger, or try and forgive? Are we the results of our own — or other people’s — bad decisions, or are we
the sum total of our own judgment calls?
Tallulah (Ellen Page), or, as she prefers to be called, Lu, is the center of writer-director Sian Heder’s
thought-provoking, deeply felt drama Tallulah, and she’s a young woman who finds herself at the
intersection of choices. Tallulah lives life on her own terms, caring for only herself. She lives out of a van
around New York City, and when we first meet her, she’s ending a just-for-now relationship with Nico
(Evan Jonigkeit). After spending some time drifting, Nico wants to move on from his and Tallulah’s life of
dumpster-diving and stealing food from convenience stores.
That goes against the freedom Tallulah craves, and so she and Nico part ways. Soon after, roaming a
swanky hotel to eat whatever leftover meals she finds in the hallways, Tallulah is mistaken for an
employee by an inebriated, affluent woman, Carolyn (Tammy Blanchard). Carolyn, railing loudly against
what motherhood has done to her marriage, her body, and her life, is preparing to meet her lover, but first
she needs someone to watch her one-year-old daughter, Madison. Accepting $100, Tallulah takes on the
role of caregiver for a few hours.
But when Carolyn returns and passes out on the bed, Tallulah judges Carolyn as someone who can’t (or
won’t) care for her child. So Tallulah makes a split-second decision to take Madison.
Tallulah then seeks out Margo (Allison Janney), Nico’s estranged mother. An edgy academic ensconced
in a Manhattan apartment, the quietly seething Margo hasn’t gotten over her husband (John Benjamin
Hickey) leaving her years ago for another man. Margo assumes the baby girl Tallulah is holding is also
Nico’s. Tallulah, cagily, doesn’t correct the miscommunication.
Initially hesitant, Margo is later appalled to see Tallulah selling lemonade out of the back of the van, and
brings Tallulah — and the child she believes is her granddaughter — into her home. As Margo takes
tentative steps towards mending the rifts within herself and her family, and Carolyn goes to the police for
help, Tallulah discovers a connection she wasn’t anticipating. And all three women find themselves
coming to grips with the choices they’ve made.
THE BIRTH OF TALLULAH
“Tallulah is the story of three very different women whose lives intersect through the impulsive and wellintentioned kidnapping of a child,” says Heder. “It’s a story about motherhood, about looking for a mother
and becoming a mother. But mostly it’s a story about humanity, about the blurry lines of morality, and
about deeply flawed human behavior.”
The story began in real life, in two different situations. Heder, a veteran writer on Netflix’s hit series
Orange is the New Black, had a friend in New York many years ago who was, Heder says, “living a very
hand-to-mouth existence. She also felt very liberated and free. She didn’t seem to need anyone and
didn’t seem to be needed. But there was incredible pain involved with that.”
“I thought the idea of a person who was living a consequence-free existence, who was living truly in the
moment, was fascinating,” continues Heder. “This friend of mine could act from a sense of pure instinct,
as opposed to living by societal rules and norms. And there was something I found kind of inspiring – and
also very terrifying — about that.”
With her main character in mind, Heder needed a situation that would serve her themes. She discovered
that when she found herself in a very alien situation.
“When I first moved to Los Angeles, I worked as a nanny at several high-end hotels,” recalls Heder, who
grew up in Massachusetts. “At the time, I was broke, driving an old Buick. When I would pull up to the
Four Seasons or the Beverly Hills Hotel, the valet would be forced to crawl through the passenger side
door, since the driver’s side door didn’t open.”
“While most of the parents I dealt with were great, I had a couple of truly strange experiences,” the
filmmaker says. “One of the mothers I worked for had come to the hotel to have an affair. She had
brought her toddler with her, but not the nanny, as she was afraid the nanny would tattle to the husband.
This woman had never been alone with her child before. Over the course of the night, I became just as
much her confidante as the child’s caregiver. She confided in me that she blamed the loss of her sexuality
and freedom on her child. She was desperate to get out of the life she had found herself in. She ended
the night passed out drunk. I wanted to take the baby before this woman could screw her up any further.
“I was convinced that I could do a better job of raising that child,” says Heder. “Of course, I didn’t steal the
baby. But it raised the question for me … Who would?”
And with that, the strands of a movie began to merge.
A FACE-TO-FACE CONFRONTATION
In 2006, Heder made a short film, Mother, from the idea. It consisted of the character of Tallulah meeting
with an unstable woman in a hotel room, and ends with Tallulah taking the woman’s baby.
“Everybody who saw it asked, ‘What happens next?’” Heder says.
Mother won a Cinéfondation award for emerging filmmakers at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. Heder
then began to expand the story. And as she grew as a person, the script grew as well.
“Sometimes, when a project takes a long time to get made, it can be frustrating. But then you look back
and see that it was actually helpful it took that long, because I had to evolve as a person and an artist,”
says Heder. “When I first wrote the script for Tallulah, I was judgmental toward a certain kind of woman
who I thought shouldn’t have kids. But by the time I made the feature, I became more like her, and in fact
more like the other characters, too. Your perspective changes.”
Part of that perspective shift came with the filmmaker becoming a mother herself. “At about the same time
I found out the movie was green-lit, I found out I was pregnant with my second child,” says Heder.
As the film started shooting in summer 2015, Heder had even more experience to draw from.
“When the movie was being shot, I was six months pregnant and also had a 16-month old daughter,” she
says. “So there’s a lot about identity as a woman in the movie, and how we struggle with our perception of
ourselves: Who we’re supposed to be versus who we feel like. I found I had a great deal of empathy for
all of the characters — and when you feel for the person who is supposed to be your villain, it’s
fascinating. When I first wrote the script, Carolyn was just a clear-cut bad mom. And it ended up being a
more complex look at parenthood, and how complicated that is.”
FINDING THREE POINTS OF VIEW
Tallulah may be named after the character who drives the story, but at its heart, Heder says, is “A triptych
of archetypal women” – Tallulah, Margo and Carolyn.
“All of these characters are morally ambiguous,” says Heder. “I like that the person you’re rooting for is a
kidnapper, while the ‘villain’ is a mom who had her child stolen — and you grow to care about her, too.
And Margo is someone who thought she had her life all planned out, but is in fact someone who hasn’t
taken responsibility for her life.”
“I like it when the audience realizes that they care about everybody in the film, because then there’s no
easy outcome,” Heder continues. “The film is about those crossroads in our lives, the moment we think
we’ve hit rock-bottom. I was interested in exploring a much more complex and complicated view of what
that experience is, and I used these three women to be different facets of that conversation.”
THE WOMEN OF TALLULAH
To bring the character of Tallulah to life, Ellen Page taps into the razor-sharp intelligence audiences have
come to expect from the Oscar-nominated star of Juno. The actress is always able to find the soulful-butyouthful point where self-resolve and survival blends with selflessness and soul. But when Heder first
started writing the script for Tallulah, she thought it might be a bit too early for Page to jump aboard.
“Ellen was someone whose work I always loved, but when I began the project, she was too young,” says
Heder. “But that was another benefit to the film coming together later. Ellen had read the script and we
met and clicked right away. I knew that the part of Tallulah could be a bit unlikeable – when we first
encounter her, she’s a thief and a scam artist who makes questionable choices — so I wanted someone
who felt a bit feral, yet also had charm and charisma to counteract the questionable morality.”
“Ellen is also just so funny and dry, and has such a great wit and a lot of charm and warmth. So I knew all
that would help to bring Tallulah to life,” adds Heder.
“My friend that I based the character on had this winning way about her — she could go up to a food truck
and say ‘Hey, can I have some of that,’ and people would just give her stuff! She had a kind of magical
aura about her, and I was looking for an actress who had that, as well as an emotional depth to go to this
wounded place. Ellen had all of that.”
“This is one of those roles that was brand new to me,” says Page. “I had never really read a character like
Lu before. She’s very unique.”
“Tallulah had a lot of trauma in her life, and has clearly spent her life running from the pain she feels,”
adds Page. “And when she sees this baby, who hasn’t had pain yet in her life, she bonds with her.”
“Tallulah is sort of forced to stop and love something that ends up connecting to her, and loving her back,”
Page continues. “And that makes her open up and understand herself a little bit more. And understand
that maybe it’s okay to need people, and that maybe people need to rely on you, too.”
For the role of Margo, Heder needed an actress who had a similar duality. Enter Allison Janney.
“Allison is also very funny and has a dry wit and intelligence to her, but she also has a big deep emotional
well, and I loved that,” says Heder. “To me, her performance here is a master class on acting.”
Says Janney, “Margo is desperate for connection when Tallulah shows up. She’s stuck and can’t move
forward, and Lu and the baby help Margo open her life. I felt for her, and I loved her journey.”
Both Janney and Page threw themselves into their roles – literally: For one crucial moment in the film that
finds Margo experiencing a giddy sense of floating in a park, Janney scaled the heights.
“Allison was 50 feet in the air in Washington Square Park, dangling off of the most sketchy-looking filmset rig you’ve ever seen,” laughs Heder. “I had it set up for a green screen, and had a stunt double, but
Allison was the one who wanted to do it. She did it about 7 or 8 times! It was really hard. At one point she
got stuck up there as the crew was going to lunch. She yelled, ‘You all go to lunch, I’m fine here!’”
Page, too, dove right in.
“For one scene, Ellen actually dove into the Hudson River – I wouldn’t have done that,” says Heder. “But
she was up for it. These actors are so professional and with such great experience, but they were also
totally game for everything, take after take.”
A different kind of tightrope walk was needed for the character of Carolyn.
“That was hardest part to cast, in many ways,” says Heder. “Carolyn has to be an almost repulsive
character with dark and ugly aspects to her, but then we have to see humanity in her. She’s sort of the
movie’s Id, a crazy representation of a feeling that a lot of parents have. And I was looking for an actress
who had the chops to be all those things and yet not judge the character. I wanted to find someone who
understood that Carolyn was a complicated person.”
Heder found everything the character needed in Tammy Blanchard.
Explains the filmmaker, “Tammy’s someone who I think really really understood the role. She didn’t judge
the character at all, and in fact had so much love and compassion for her, which is important.
“Plus, Tammy is sexy, with a sort of Marilyn Monroe quality. But there’s also the sense that you don’t
know as the scenes go on what Carolyn might do. Tammy was also able to bring something dangerous.”
There’s an additional role that’s crucial to understanding the complexity of Tallulah: The New York police
officer Detective Kinnie, played by Uzo Aduba, best known for her portrayal of “Crazy Eyes” Warren on
Orange is the New Black.
“Detective Kinnie and Crazy Eyes couldn’t be more different,” laughs Heder. “Uzo as a person is very
earthy, and Kinnie is in many ways the conscience of the movie.”
“I wanted someone who felt like this straight-talking ‘Voice of Truth,’ and I knew Uzo could come in and
make a small part really feel like a fully-lived person,” adds Heder. “We spoke about how when people
have a job like that, watching out for family disputes and child endangerment, there’s a way you could
become desensitized. And this is a case that sort of throws the detective off her bearings.”
ANOTHER SIDE OF THE STORY
For the role of Margo’s ex-husband, Heder knew the close-knit cast would benefit from friendship.
“Ellen and Allison have a long history since costarring in Juno and Touchy Feely,” says Heder. “And it
made my job easier in creating the way they spark to each other in the film. Similarly, Allison and John
Benjamin Hickey (TV’s The Good Wife, Broadway’s Cabaret) have been best friends for 25 years. I
wanted this feeling of Allison and John having a rich history as a couple.”
“So I knew that we would be able to feel like these people had been married, and have all these emotions
and connections and love under the anger,” Heder says.
To play the boyfriend of Margo’s ex-husband, Heder turned to one of her own old pals: Zachary Quinto
(Star Trek, Margin Call, Broadway’s The Glass Menagerie).
“Zach has been one of my closest friends for years,” says Heder. “We went to Carnegie Mellon together,
and made a short film together years ago. He’s also a phenomenal actor, of course, so it was perfect.”
Adds Heder, “I wanted every character to feel like they were there for a reason, and hiring great actors
does that.”
COMING HOME
Heder – who wrote the film before she was a mom, began directing it when she was pregnant a second
time, and locked the final print on the very day she went into labor – finds something poetic in so many
aspects of the film. That includes the scene that started it all.
“The wild part is, when I went to shoot the feature, the scene that was the short film was virtually
unchanged,” says Heder. “It’s based on a real thing in my life. The dialogue had even come from my life.”
Heder says that bringing all of her characters to a place they all belong was deeply satisfying.
“Each character gets the very things they needed,” says Heder. “Tallulah is scrappy and resourceful, but
she was missing a family, and in the end she has that. Margo, you get the sense, has been awakened to
the fact that she’s responsible for her own happiness. And Carolyn had to have the most important thing
in her life ripped away from her in order to look inside herself and realize she loves her child.”
“Each of these women become transformed in the way they needed to be transformed.”
CAST AND FILMMAKERS
ELLEN PAGE (Tallulah/Executive Producer), an Academy Award-nominated actress, continues to build
upon her on screen presence with performances that span both tentpole and art-house films. Expanding
on her impressive body of work, she has recently stepped behind the camera as a producer, shepherding
passion projects on the big and small screen.
Page can next be seen starring in Patricia Rozema’s Into the Forest opposite Evan Rachel Wood.
Produced by Page, Niv Fichman and Aaron L. Gilbert, the film premiered at the 2015 Toronto
International Film Festival. Additionally, Page produces and co-stars in the new documentary series titled
Gaycation, along with her best friend Ian Daniel. Created with VICE and Spike Jonze, the series follows
Page and Daniel as they travel through different cities around the world, exploring the sometimes dark
and disturbing perspective of each city’s LGBTQ community, as well as the local culture’s overall attitude
toward LGBTQ people. The series recently premiered on Viceland. Tallulah, costarring Allison Janney
and directed by Orange is The New Black writer Sian Heder, tells the story of a woman who rescues a
baby from her reckless mother and pretends the child is hers, with the help of her ex-boyfriend’s mother.
The film premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, and Netflix will release it on July 29th.
Page was last seen opposite Julianne Moore in Peter Sollett’s Freeheld. Based on the true story of
Detective Laurel Hester (Moore) and her domestic partner Stacie Andree (Page), the film follows their
personal fight for justice and equality as Hester struggles to transfer her pension to Andree after she is
diagnosed with terminal cancer. Freeheld premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival and
was released by Lionsgate in October 2015.
Page also starred in the seventh installation of the X-Men franchise, Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of
Future Past, reprising her role as Kitty Pryde from the previous film, X-Men: The Last Stand. The two
films alone grossed nearly $2 billion at the worldwide box office. With her breakout role in Jason
Reitman’s hit comedy Juno, Page received Academy Award®, BAFTA, Golden Globe and SAG Best
Actress nominations, and won the Independent Spirit Award for her performance. Additional credits
include Christopher Nolan’s Inception, Woody Allen’s To Rome With Love; Lynn Shelton’s Touchy Feely;
Drew Barrymore’s Whip It; Zal Batmanglij’s thriller The East; David Lander’s Peacock; Bruce McDonald’s
The Tracey Fragments; An American Crime; Kari Skogland’s The Stone Angel; Alison Murray’s Mouth to
Mouth; Daniel MacIvor’s Wilby Wonderful, Noam Murro’s Smart People and David Slade’s Hard Candy.
In 2014, Page publicly came out as gay. She gave a moving and deeply personal speech at Time to
Thrive, a conference to promote the welfare of LGBT youth. The speech reached millions around the
world as she eloquently shared she was there because she hoped to “make a difference, and help others
have an easier, more hopeful time” and felt a “personal obligation and social responsibility.” Since then,
Page has gone on to receive the support and admiration from peers and fans alike, for her courage and
honesty.
ALLISON JANNEY (Margo) The incredibly versatile Allison Janney has taken her place among a select
group of actors who combine a leading lady’s profile with a character actor’s art of performance. Currently
starring alongside Anna Faris in the CBS/Chuck Lorre sitcom Mom, Janney has also received rave
reviews for her turn as Margaret Scully on Showtime’s groundbreaking drama Masters of Sex. Janney
won Emmys for both roles in the same year — a feat that has only been done twice before in Emmy
history. She won a second Emmy for Mom the following year, bringing her total number of ATAS statues
to seven.
She recently wrapped production on three feature films awaiting release: Tallulah which reunited her with
Ellen Page; Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children for director Tim Burton; and Girl on the Train,
collaborating again with longtime friend, director Tate Taylor. She was also seen in two of last summer’s
biggest box office titles: Minions and Spy. Previous feature work includes The Duff, Jason Bateman’s
directorial debut Bad Words, Dreamworks’ animated film Mr. Peabody & Sherman and The Way, Way
Back with Steve Carell and Toni Collette. Additionally, Janney costarred in the much anticipated feature
film The Help based on the best-selling novel of the same name. For their extraordinary performances,
the cast won Ensemble awards from the Screen Actors Guild, National Board of Review and the
Broadcast Film Critics. The film was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
Janney has also delighted audiences with outstanding performances in the Oscar-winning ensemble hit
Juno and in the movie version of the Tony Award-winning musical Hairspray. For her role in Todd
Solondz’s film Life During Wartime she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress by the Spirit Awards.
She also appeared in Sam Mendes’ Away We Go, the comedy Strangers with Candy, and was heard as
the voice of “Gladys” in Dreamworks’ animated film Over the Hedge, as well as “Peach” in Finding Nemo.
She received another Spirit Award nomination for her work in the independent feature Our Very Own, and
starred opposite Meryl Streep in The Hours, which received a SAG Award nomination for Outstanding
Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture. Other feature credits include the Academy Award-winning film
American Beauty (for which she won a SAG Award for Outstanding Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture)
as well as Nurse Betty, How to Deal, Drop Dead Gorgeous, 10 Things I Hate About You, Primary Colors,
The Ice Storm, Six Days Seven Nights, The Object of My Affection, and Big Night.
Throughout her career Janney has made a handful of memorable guest-star appearances on TV, but she
is renowned for her starring role in the acclaimed NBC series The West Wing, where she won a
remarkable four Emmy Awards and four SAG Awards for her portrayal of White House Press Secretary
CJ Cregg.
While a freshman studying acting at Kenyon College in Ohio, Janney auditioned for Paul Newman and
got the part. Soon after, Newman and his wife Joanne Woodward suggested she study at the
Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. She followed their advice and went on to make her Broadway
debut in Noel Coward’s Present Laughter for which she earned the Outer Critics Circle Award and
Clarence Derwent Award. She also appeared in Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge, receiving her first
Tony Award nomination and winning the Outer Critics Circle Award. Janney was last seen on Broadway
in the musical 9 to 5, for which she earned a Tony nomination and won the Drama Desk Award.
TAMMY BLANCHARD (Carolyn) Ms. Blanchard was most recently seen in Dada Woof Papa Hot at
Lincoln Center Theater. She has won a Primetime Emmy Award for her portrayal of young Judy Garland
in Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows and was Golden Globe and AFI nominated for that
performance. She received a 2011 Tony Award nomination for her performance in How to Succeed in
Business Without Really Trying, and was previously Tony nominated for her Broadway debut
in Gypsy opposite Bernadette Peters, for which she received a Theater World Award. Film credits include
Tallulah, Into The Woods, Blue Jasmine, Moneyball, The Good Shepherd, Bella, Cadillac Records, Rabbit
Hole, The Music Never Stopped, Certainty, Union Square and Burning Blue. Television credits include
Hoke, The Big C, A Gifted Man, We Were the Mulvaneys, Sybil, Living Proof, Amish Grace, The Good
Wife, Law & Order: SVU, Guiding Light and the original Lifetime TV movie Of Two Minds.
EVAN JONIGKEIT (Nico) Actor, producer, director Evan Jonigkeit will next be seen in the independent
comedic drama, TALLULAH, opposite Ellen Page, which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.
He recently appeared opposite Tina Fey in the Paramount comedy, WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT and
wrapped production on the ensemble indie, BRAVE NEW JERSEY, co-starring Anna Camp and Tony
Hale. On the television side, Jonigkeit will be seen as one of the stars of Netflix's "Frontier" and currently
appears as a guest star on Comedy Central’s Broad City and Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. He
recently wrapped production on Joe Swanberg's straight-to-series anthology comedy "Easy." On
Broadway, Jonigkeit starred opposite Mary-Louise Parker in the play THE SNOW GEESE and won an
Outer Critics Award for his role in HIGH opposite Kathleen Turner. Additional credits include films Bone
Tomahawk, X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST as well television series "The Good Wife" and "Girls."
Jonigkeit and his partner, Zosia Mamet, started Rooster films in 2014. They have produced two films
under this canopy to date and are in various stages of development for a number of other film and
television projects.
UZO ADUBA (Detective Kinnie) A formidable talent to be reckoned with, Uzo Aduba is an award winning
actress whose work spans television, film and theatre. Aduba currently stars as Suzanne “Crazy Eyes”
Warren in the critically acclaimed Netflix Original Series Orange Is The New Black. Her performance has
garnered a sweep of awards including the 2016 and 2015 SAG Award for Best Actress in Comedy, the
2015 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series and the 2014 Emmy Award for
Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy. In addition, Aduba was honored as part of the show’s win in the
category of Best Ensemble in a Comedy at both the 2016 and 2015 SAG Awards. For her Emmy wins,
Aduba joined Ed Asner to become only the second actors ever to win Emmys for the same role in the
comedy and drama categories. Furthermore, with her SAG and Emmy honors, she became the first
African American actress to win the award in each category. She was also nominated for the 2015 and
2016 Golden Globe Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Series, Mini-Series, or TV Movie. The
show will begin streaming its fourth season on Netflix on June 17, 2016. Aduba recently appeared in
NBC’s production of The Wiz Live! as Glinda the Good Witch. Directed by Kenny Leon and produced by
Neil Meron and Craig Zadan, the production also starred Queen Latifah, Mary J. Blige, Ne-Yo, Amber
Riley, and David Alan Grier.
In film, Aduba will appear in Ewan McGregor’s American Pastoral alongside McGregor, Jennifer Connelly,
and Dakota Fanning. The drama is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Philip Roth and
will release on Friday, October 28th nationwide. Additionally, she will star alongside Ellen Page and
Allison Janney in Sian Heder’s Tallulah, which was bought by Netflix at this year’s Sundance Film Festival
and will begin streaming on Friday, July 29th. Aduba recently appeared in Michael Wilson’s Showing
Roots alongside Maggie Grace.
Before starring on television, Aduba made her Broadway debut in Coram Boy 2007 followed by the hit
musical revival of Godspell in 2011. She discovered her talent for singing at a very early age and became
a classical music major at the Boston University School of Fine Arts. Work in theatre quickly followed with
critically acclaimed performances at both The Huntington Theatre in Boston and A.R.T. where, under the
direction of Dianne Paulus, she won the prestigious Elliot Norton Award for Best Actress in a Play. She
recently made her West End Theatre debut in The Jamie Lloyd Company’s contemporary adaptation of
Jean Genet’s The Maids. Directed by Lloyd, the play which also starred Laura Carmichael and Zawe
Ashton.
Aduba was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Play for her work in the
Kennedy Center/Olney Theater production of Translations of Xhosa. Other theater credits include Dessa
Rose at the New Repertory Theatre, Turnado: Rumble for the Ring at the Paper Mill Playhouse, and
Abyssinia at the Goodspeed Theatre. Aduba currently resides in New York City.
ZACHARY QUINTO (Andreas) is a star of stage and screen, appearing in film, television and theatre, as
well as working behind the scenes as a film producer. He will next be seen reprising his role as ‘Spock’ in
the third installment of the STAR TREK franchise. Coming in July, Quinto will appear in TALLULAH
alongside Ellen Page and Allison Janney. In September, Quinto will appear in Oliver Stone’s film
“Snowden” alongside Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley. Quinto will also executive produce
the film adaptation of Vicky Ward’s novel THE LIAR’S BALL, which is currently in development. J.C.
Chandor will direct and A24 Films will distribute. Most recently, Quinto starred in the Off-Broadway
production “Smokefall” alongside Tom Bloom. Quinto’s other work on stage include “The Glass
Menagerie” and “Angels in America.” In 2008, Quinto founded Before The Door Pictures with producing
partner Neal Dodson. Together they produced ALL IS LOST starring Robert Redford and MARGIN CALL
starring Kevin Spacey. On television, Quinto received rave reviews for his role in Ryan Murphy's
"American Horror Story" and for his memorable role in "Heroes."
SIAN HEDER (Writer-Director) was born and raised in Cambridge, MA, and currently resides in Los
Angeles. She writes and produces on the acclaimed Netflix series, Orange is the New Black, for which
she has received multiple WGA nominations. Her first short film, Mother, received top honors at the
Cannes Film Festival, Seattle International, Florida Film Festival and played in over 40 festivals
worldwide. She won a Peabody Award for her work on the celebrated television series, Men of a Certain
Age. Heder is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and alumna of the AFI DWW, Film Independent
Directors Lab and Nantucket Screenwriters Colony. Her debut feature film, Tallulah, stars Ellen Page and
Allison Janney and premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. It will be released both theatrically and
worldwide by Netflix.
HEATHER RAE (Producer) has worked as a producer and executive for more than twenty years. She
has been named one of Variety’s Ten Producers To Watch and produced Frozen River, for which she
won the Paiget Producer Award. Frozen River won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival,
was nominated for two Academy Awards, won two Gotham Awards and was nominated for seven Spirit
Awards, winning two. Rae also produced such films as The Dry Land starring America Ferrera whch
premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, Magic Valley starring Scott Glenn and Kyle Gallner, which
premiered at Tribeca, and Sundance hit Ass Backwards, written by June Raphael and Casey Wilson
(Bride Wars) who star alongside Alicia Silverstone, Vincent D’Onofrio, Brian Geraghty and Jon Cryer. Rae
also produced festival darling I Believe in Unicorns from writer/director Leah Meyerhoff. Rae produced
Tallulah, written and directed by Orange is the New Black writer Sian Heder. Tallulah premiered at the
Sundance Film Festival and was acquired by Netflix. Rae recently wrapped on Olivia Milch’s Blacklist
script, Dude, starring Lucy Hale, Austin Butler, Alex Wolff, and Alexandra Shipp.
For Six years Rae ran the Native Program at the Sundance Institute. She has sat on the Board of
Trustees for the Sundance Institute and advised to such organizations as The Rockefeller Foundation,
IFP, Film Independent, The Ford Foundation, The Tribeca Institute, and First Americans in the Arts. Rae
is Tennessee Band Cherokee and the mother of three.
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OCEAN BLUE ENTERTAINMENT
TALLULAH
written and directed by
SIâN HEDER
produced by
HEATHER RAE
produced by
CHRIS COLUMBUS
RUSSELL LEVINE
TODD TRAINA
ELLEN PAGE
ALLISON JANNEY
TAMMY BLANCHARD
EVAN JONIGKEIT
UZO ADUBA
FELIX SOLIS
FREDRIC LEHNE
with
JOHN BENJAMIN HICKEY
DAVID ZAYAS
and
ZACHARY QUINTO
casting by
BERNARD TELSEY, CSA
TIFFANY LITTLE CANFIELD, CSA
Associate CONRAD WOOLFE, CSA
executive produced by
ELEANOR COLUMBUS
CHRIS LYTTON
DAVID NEWSOM
executive produced by
CHARLOTTE UBBEN
MARK BURTON
PAULL CHO
executive produced by
ELLEN PAGE
co-produced by
GED DICKERSIN
director of photography
PAULA HUIDOBRO
production designer
SARA K. WHITE
edited by
DARRIN NAVARRO, ACE
costume designer
BRENDA ABBANDANDOLO
music supervisor
LAURA KATZ
music by
MICHAEL BROOK
Unit Production Manager/Post Production Supervisor
BILLY MULLIGAN
First Assistant Director
INNA BRAUDE
Second Assistant Director
ANDREAS O'DONOHUE
Second Second Assistant Director
NICCOLO VITELLI
Location Manager
PATRICK SANDEFUR
Assistant Location Manager
SARA KELLEY
Co-Producer
SOPHIA DILLEY
Associate Producer MICHAEL TENNANT
Co-Executive Producers KEN H. KELLER
CARON RUDNER
CAST
Tallulah ELLEN PAGE
Margo ALLISON JANNEY
Carolyn TAMMY BLANCHARD
Nico EVAN JONIGKEIT
Manuel FELIX SOLIS
Detective Richards DAVID ZAYAS
Detective Kinnie UZO ADUBA
Russell FREDRIC LEHNE
Madison EVANGELINE ELLIS
LILIANA ELLIS
Stephen JOHN BENJAMIN HICKEY
Andreas ZACHARY QUINTO
Vera MADDIE CORMAN
Officer Lacey EDEN MARRYSHOW
Cab Driver OBERON K.A. ADJEPONG
Concierge TOMMAR WILSON
Valet J. OSCAR SIMMONS
Grad Student CHARLOTTE UBBEN
Grad Student 2 OLIVIA LEVINE
MTA Guard TIJUANA RICKS
Michael JASON TOTTENHAM
Skinny Man MANSOOR NAJEE-ULLAH
Newscaster TODD ALAN CRAIN
ER Receptionist CHANEL JENKINS
Shopper With Baby RACHEL HARDIN
Reporter STACEY THUNDER
Bar-goer JASSON FINNEY
Officer Buck BERTO COLON
Additional Babies HELEN KOWIDGE
OLIVIA MERTZ
ALMADERA IDELIA GALKO-CASTELLANO
ANIKO NEWSOM
Stunt Coordinator
MANNY SIVERIO
Assisting Stunt Coordinator
CHRIS COLOMBO
Utility Stunts
TIM BUCHANAN
Stunt Double "Lu"
DINA MARGOLIN
Stunt Double "Margo"
JENNIFER EGAN
Marine Coordinator
CHRIS BARNES
Marine Safety
RILEY BARNES
TERRENCE LORINO
Camera Operator
ANDREW PRIESTLEY
1st Assistant Camera "A" Camera
BEN SPANER
1st Assistant Camera "B" Camera
MARQUITOS RODRIGUEZ-QUIJANO
2nd Assistant Camera "A" Camera
BRENT WEICHSEL
2nd Assistant Camera "B" Camera
ALFONSO DIAZ
Digital Imaging Technician
SASHA BURDETT
Camera Loader
NIKNAZ TAVAKOLIAN
Steadicam Operators
MATT FLEISCHMANN
JAMIE SILVERSTEIN
Production Office Coordinator
HEATHER LEVENSTONE
Production Accountant
JOSEPH LOMBARDI
First Assistant Accountant
PETER LOMBARDI
Key Grip
CHRIS GAMIELLO
Best Boy Grip
ANTHONY GAMIELLO
Additional Best Boy Grip
RICHARD BIZENZA
Company Grip
LEE MARVIN WALKER
Gaffer
MEG SCHROCK
Best Boy Electric
STEVE KARTT
Company Electric
CORY LONAS
BRAD PRINTZ
Script Supervisor
ZORINAH JUAN
Storyboard Artist
THYRA HEDER
Makeup Department Head
BRENDA BUSH JOHANNESEN
Hair Department Head
SUSAN SCHECTAR
Key Makeup Artist
JESSICA TOTH
Sound Mixer
ANTON GOLD
Additional Sound Mixer
JAMES BAKER
Boom Operator
MAX STEIN
Prop Master
OLIVIA PEEBLES
Assistant Prop Master
CHRISTINA LOWRY
Wardrobe Supervisor
EVA LEE
On-Set Costumer
MINJI KIM
Costume PA
BRYNN ALMLI
LIENE DOBRAJA
MARY SIEVERT
ALLEGRA STAROBIN
Key Set PA
RICHARD MOLLOY
Background PA
KAILYN DABKOWSKI
1st Team PA
SOFIA BLANCO
Cast PA
MICHELLE MURPHY
Unit PA
NATHAN FENNELL
Walkie PA
D.J. MAIORANA
Paperwork PA
RACHEL THOMPSON
Additional Set Pas
JEFF LOWERY
JENNY MCQUAILE
RANDY TROY
HEATHER B. WALKER
Office Pas
JUSTIN CALDER
ETHAN A. SCARDUZIO
First Assistant Editor
CHRISTINE PARK
Background Casting Director
KAREN ETCOFF, KEE CASTING
Stand-In
JENNIFER ALEXANDER
Teamster Captain
JOHN M. HICKS
Camera Truck
GEORGE STEVENS
Grip and Electric Truck
THOMAS A. MIGGE
Parking Coordinator
BILL BOURNE
Art Director
KATIE HICKMAN
Charge Scenic
JOE RIZZO
Scenic Artists
DANA KENN
TERRY KUBINA
Art PA
NISA SCHOONHOVEN
Set Decorator
KENDALL ANDERSON
Leadman
LAURA SPINNEY
On-Set Dresser
JOHANNA BENITEZ
ELISA DAY BROTHERHOOD
Set Dressing Foreman
COLE IPPOLITI
Additional Set Dressers
LAURA ACKERMAN
DANIEL BOWLES
LISA GREEN
LOUIS GUERRERO
JOHN TETEN
Set Dressing Truck PA
REYMUNDO SOLANO
Assistant to Director
MARA BRESNAHAN
Assistant to Producers
TAMARA EDWARDS
Baby Wrangler
JOHNNY SEQUOYAH
Route One Executive Assistant
VERONICA IDOATE
Route One Operations
KIM TROY
Music Editor
SUZANA PERIĆ
Music Production
CRAIG CONARD
Score Published by
FIRST SCORE MUSIC
Music Services Provided by
CUTTING EDGE
Executive Music Producer
TARA MOROSS
JUNIPER ANNE COOK
Music Clearance & Licensing
LAUREN WEISS
Music Business & Legal Executive
JAIMIE LI
Executive Music Consultant
MICHAEL LLOYD
Music Consultant
DAN WILCOX
Craft Service
JOE FACEY, JOE'S CRAFT SERVICE
BEATA ZACHAR
Technocrane Operator
MICHAEL NORMAN BUCK
DANIEL DENITTO
PAUL GOROFF
Mosys Technician
GUILLAUME RENBERG
Libra Technician
KEVIN KASARDA
Construction Coordinator
RICHARD HEBRANK
Key Construction Grip
GLENN FJOTLAND
JEFF SPARNON
Shop Craft
JAMES WASSMANN
Construction PA
MICHAEL RIOLO
Original Artwork by
LINDA TURKEL KELLERMAN
ABBY MANOCK
Still Photographers
NICOLE RIVELLI
JOJO WHILDEN
Second Unit
Los Angeles
Underwater Director of Photography
JOHN MALVINO
1st AC Underwater
TYLER ALLISON
Stunt Coordinator
KATIE ROWE
Underwater Grip
GREG TASH
Grip
PAUL VERRETTE
Set PA
EMILIO RAE MORGAN
Production Legal Services
STROOCK & STROOCK & LAVAN LLP
GLEN MASTROBERTE
SHARON STEINHAUSER
Sales Advisory Services
ICM PARTNERS
Foreign Sales by
GOOD UNIVERSE
Insurance
ARTHUR J. GALLAGHER & CO.
Insurance Brokers
KONRAD DOWLING
CORISSA STUCKEY
Tax Credit Financing provided by
EP FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS
Completion Guarantor
FILM FINANCES, INC.
AMI FRANCIS
Film Auditor
DAVID BRAUER, BRAUER & CO.
Camera Equipment
ABELCINE
Lighting and Grip Equipment
CINELEASE
Stage Facilities
ACUMEN, BROOKLYN
Payroll Services
ENTERTAINMENT PARTNERS
Script Clearance Research
INDIECLEAR, CAROL COMPTON
Editing Facilities
FLASH CUTS
Supervising Sound Editor & Re-Recording Mixer
RYAN M. PRICE, MPSE
Mixed at
SOUND LOUNGE
Foley Studio
ALCHEMY POST SOUND
Foley Mixer
RYAN COLLISON
NICK SEAMAN
Foley Artist
LESLIE BLOOME
JONATHAN FANG
Mobile Dailies provide by OUTPOST ® A Light Iron Service
ETHAN SCHWARTZ
ROB LOUGHLIN
OUTPOST Engineer
DYLAN DAMIAN
OUTPOST Producer OUTPOST Supervisor
AARON KROGER
Digital Intermediate by LIGHT IRON
DI Colorist
SEAN DUNCKLEY
DI Producer
CAROLYN CURY
MEGAN RUMPH
Executive Producer
MEGAN MARQUIS
Finishing Artist
KATIE HINSEN
DI Assists
KEVIN KAIM
DEAN MOZIAN
JAMES REYES
Light Iron Management
MICHAEL CIONI
PETER CIONI
CHRIS PEARISO
Engineering
ERIC MITTAN
Administration
RACHAEL BLACK
DANA BLUMBERG
RUBEN GLORIA
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VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects by
4TH CREATIVE PARTY
Senior VFX Supervisor
LEE, JEON HYOUNG
Executive VFX Supervisor
CHOI, JAE CHEON
Executive VFX Producer
HAN, YOUNG WOO
VFX Supervisor
KIM, JOON HYUNG
CGI Supervisor
PARK, MIN SU
Lighting Lead
KANG, CHANG BAE
Look Development Lead
JEONG, CHEOL HWANG
Compositing Lead
PARK, SONG YI
Animation Lead
YOO, TAI KEUN
FX Lead
SON, BYUNG SOO
Modeling Lead
YUN, YOUNG JUN
Matte Painting Lead
CHOI, JI WON
Creature Lead
KIM, SEONG HUN
Motion Graphics Lead
JO, KYUNG HOON
Lighting Artist
LEE, SEONG YONG
Look Development Artist
KO, MIN KYU
Compositing Artists A
KIM, MIN BUM
OH, HYUN SUK
KIM, HYUNG IL
KIM, YE HYANG
AN, SEONG KYEONG
LEE, SUN MI
KIM, SU MI
KIM, GI HYEON
LEE, YE EUN
JANG, SA RAH
BAE, KWON HO
PARK, JI MAN
Compositing Artists B
KWAK, JUNG HEE
SON, JONG HYUN
LEE, CHAI HYUN
LEE, JUNG BOK
JO, MI HYEONG
Animation Artist
PARK, JUN CHUL
Modelling Artists
KIM, SANG DON
CHOI, WOO SUNG
Motion Graphics Artists
RYU, SO RA
PARK, YU EUN
VFX Producer
JEANNY LEE
Project Management Lead
LEE, DUK GOO
Main Project Manager
JUNG, A REUM
Project Assistant
SON, DAE HEE
Visual Effects Supervisor, New York
MITCHELL FERM
SONGS
"I'M GONE MAMA"
Written by Jim Murphy Performed by Jim Murphy and The Accents
Courtesy of Fervor Records
"MAD, MAD HEART"
Written by Jim Heath Performed by Reverend Horton Heat
Courtesy of Victory Records
"NO TRESPASSING BLUES"
Written by Brandon Wurtz, Shannon Dean, Bert Hoover, Chance Welton, & Erik Lake
Performed by Jesus Sons Courtesy of Mock Records
By arrangement with Light In The Attic Records & Distribution, LLC
"GUILTY AS CHARGED"
Written by Andrew Balogh Performed by Adryon Gross
Courtesy of CORD Worldwide
"PACIN' THE FLOOR"
Written by Charles Hicks & Chris Manak Performed by Charizma & Peanut Butter Wolf
Courtesy of STONES THROW RECORDS
"BABY WHERE YOU ARE"
Written & Performed by Ted Lucas Courtesy of Yoga Records
By arrangement with Midnight Choir
MADE WITH THE SUPPORT OF
FILM INDEPENDENT AFI CONSERVATORY DIRECTING WORKSHOP FOR WOMEN
NANTUCKET SCREENWRITERS COLONY
SPECIAL THANKS
DAVID NEWSOM
ANIKO NEWSOM
MILO NEWSOM
THYRA HEDER
MERLE KENNEDY
MAGS HARRIES
LAJOS HEDER
LISA OLSHANSKY
DAN WILCOX
DOUG MACLAREN
JESSICA LACY
CULLEN CONLY
ALEX SAKS
NEAL DODSON
SYLVIA SETHER
ANNA MCROBERTS
MAGGIE KILEY
RD ROBB
TOM CARTER
MIKE JACKSON
JOSH MCLAUGHLIN
MARK GORDON
JENJI KOHAN
TARA HERRMANN
VICTOR QUINAZ
ERIK PATTERSON
VINCENT ORESMAN
JENNIFER GETZINGER
MARIA MAGGENTI
JENNIFER KUSHNER
JOSH WELSH
ANDREW WAGNER
JOSH RADNOR
GARRET MCKECHNIE
SHELDON CANDIS
SHAZ BENNETT
KATHLEEN DENNEHY
ABBY MANOCK
MAGGIE BAISCH
SAPHRONIA CAMP
ANGIE FEATHERSTONE
ASHLEIGH SUMNER
LOUISE WARD
MITCH SMELKINSON
FILM FATALES
AKSHAY MEHTA
HELEN LEE KIM
CASSIAN ELWES
KELLY BUSH
CHRIS HENZE
HANLEY BAXTER
LESLIE SIEBERT
RUSSELL FRIEDENBERG
JOHNNY SEQUOYAH
ALEX RIVERA
CRISTINA IBARRA
JEFF MOST
RE'SHAUN FREAR
TANKA / FAYE BROWN
LINDSEY ADAMS
PATTY WEST
CHRIS SCHWARTZ
KIMBERLY & JOHNNY GUERRERO
EURIE CHUNG, FLASH CUTS
KASI KRESHECK
SEAN CORDASCO
SCOTT KOSTER
KATIE TRAINA
BOB BABOK
PATRICK HERNING
JENNIFER ZIEGLER
BIRDIE TRAINA
ALEC PERKINS
LUCAS VON HELDFOND
JOHN HADITY
JULIEN BOUSCAREL
SUSAN LEBER
LOU D'AGOSTINO
BARBARA LAVERY
JENNY HESS
MIKE NICHOLS, ABELCINE
WILLIAM V. ANDREW
TRACY K. PRICE
GINA VELLANI & DANIEL ELLIS
NIKKA & TONY KOWIDGE
STEVE GIAMMARIA
PETER CRIMI
CRAIG LOGUIDICE
AARON KELLY
LOUISA GLEICHMAN
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