Sundae
United States, 7m, Digital
A son helps his mother navigate their route, as they embark on a mysterious driving errand.
Director: Sonya Goddy
Writer(s): Sonya Goddy
Producer(s): Kristin Frost
Co-Producer(s): Birgit “Bitz” Gernboeck
Director of Photography: Andrew Ellmaker
Editor(s): Souliman Schelfout
Sound Design: Tristan L'Homme
Cast: Finnerty Steeves, Julian Antonio de Leon
Contact: Sonya Goddy, sonya.goddy@gmail.com, sonyagoddy.com
About the Writer/Director
SONYA GODDY (Director) is a native, New York-based filmmaker who is equally passionate about writing and directing. Her work focuses particularly on the theme of doomed or frustrated love. Her first short, Blood Magic premiered at BAMCinemaFest alongside other award-winning shorts from Sundance and Berlin. Her second short, Transference Love, was acquired by Shorts International after an extensive New York festival run. Last year, her short comedy Séance premiered at the Cannes Short Film Corner and won the Audience Choice Award at the Ivy Film Festival. In addition to directing short films, her feature script Holy New York and the Inner Moonlight won Faculty Honors in last year’s Columbia University screenplay competition. The script has advanced to the quarter-finals in both the BlueCat Screenplay Competition and the Nashville Film Festival Screenplay Competition. She plans to make this script as her first feature.
About the Producers
KRISTIN FROST (Producer) is a New York City-based producer and writer, originally from Virginia. She has a producer’s mind, but a director’s vision and loves cultivating potential; in great stories and great talent. Frost graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in English and Creative Writing. She went on to moonlight in the filmmaking world while pretending to be an adult, working in development and event production at the Darden School of Business, the International Rescue Committee and REV, an NYC-based start-up coworking venue where she was Director. Frost is currently pursuing her M.F.A. in Creative Film Producing at Columbia University, where she has produced several short films. Stay Awake (2012), which she co-produced recently won the 2015 Slamdance Jury Prize and had its world premiere at the Berlinale. Frost was producer on the short, Sundae and co-producer and UPM on The Last Day of Charley E. Rays, an adaptation of a Kurt Vonnegut short story. She is currently in pre-production on a short entitled Search Party and her thesis film, which won the Katharina Otto-Bernstein Production Grant at the 2014 Columbia University Film Festival.
BIRGIT “BITZ” GERNBOECK was a Germany-based independent producer, line producer and production manager, before moving to New York City for the Creative Producing M.F.A. Program at Columbia University. Gernboeck worked on more than 30 television movies for German broadcasters such as ARD, ZDF, SAT1, RTL and ProSieben, full-length documentaries directed by Stanislaw Mucha. Gernboeck produced films in Italy, Austria, the UK, Tunisia and South Africa for the German production company U5 Filmproduktion. Gernboeck recently production-managed a narrative feature film Doktorspiele for Twentieth Century Fox Germany. She also worked on the documentary Prisoner of Paradise, which was nominated for an Academy Award (Best Feature Documentary) directed by Malcolm Clarke and Stuart Sender. Despite her lengthy experience, she decided to pursue an M.F.A. in Creative Producing in New York in order to broaden her network to the US, while learning more about storytelling, screenwriting, directing and creative development.
