We’re All Gonna Die
United States, 11 min, Arri Plus (2K)
When a crying six-year-old boy asks his parents if they’re all going to die someday, they have to decide how to answer the question without scaring him or each other.
Director: Jamie Sisley
Writer(s): Jamie Sisley
Producer(s): Kristin Frost
Co-Producer(s): Giovanni Ferrari
Director of Photography: Giacomo Belletti
Production Design: Storm Garner
Cast: Chris Meyer, Allison Jean White, Luke Ryan, Ava Steckman, Asia Kate Dillon, Audrey Eaden
Language: English
Contact: Kristin Frost, kmf2149@columbia.edu
About the Writer/Director
Jamie Sisley’s short, Stay Awake, premiered at the 2015 Berlinale, won the 2015 Slamdance Jury Prize, and received the National Board of Review’s Short Film Prize. He will soon premiere his first feature documentary, Farewell Ferris Wheel, which will air nationally on PBS. Sisley earned a BS in Business from the University of Virginia and an MFA in Film from Columbia University and is in development on his first narrative feature.
About the Producer
Kristin is finishing her Producing MFA at Columbia University and has produced several, award-winning shorts, including Stay Awake (co-producer), which premiered at the 2015 Berlinale and won the 2015 Slamdance Jury Prize, and Sundae, which debuted at the 53rd New York Film Festival. Frost received 2015’s HBO Young Producers Award for Search Party, as well as the 2014 Katharina Otto-Bernstein Film Fund Award for her thesis, We’re All Gonna Die.
