Ramin Bahrani |  18 mins | USA

In a not too distant future, a Plastic Bag goes on an epic journey in search of its lost Maker, wondering if there is any point to life without her. The Bag encounters strange creatures, brief love in the sky, a colony of prophetic torn bags on a fence and the unknown. To be with its own kind, the Bag goes deep under the oceans into 500 nautical miles of spinning garbage known as the North Pacific Trash Vortex. Will our Plastic Bag be able to forget its Maker there?

SCREENING SCHEDULE
7:00 PM     Fri, Oct 15, 2010
IndieScreen

PRODUCTION CREDITS
Director, Writer, Editor | Ramin Bahrani
Story by | Jenni Jenkins, Ramin Bahrani
Cinematography | Michael Simmonds
Music | Kjartan Sveinsson
Producers | Adam Spielberg, Ramin Bahrani
Executive Producers | Brian Devine + Jason Orans + Stephen Bannatyne

DIRECTOR’S BIO
Born and raised in North Carolina in 1975, American filmmaker Ramin Bahrani’s first feature film, Man Push Cart (2005) premiered at Venice (2005) and later screened at the Sundance (2006). The film won over 10 international prizes and was nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards (2007) including Best First Film. Chop Shop (2007) premiered at the 2007 and then screened at Toronto (2007) and Berlin (2008). Bahrani was awarded the Acura “Someone to Watch” Independent Spirit Award (2008) for the film which was also nominated for two additional Independent Spirit Awards in 2009, including Best Director. Goodbye Solo (2008) premiered at Venice and won the FIPRESCI international critics prize for Best Film and is the highest reviewed film released in the United States in 2009. In early 2009 Bahrani was a recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship and was also the subject of several international retrospectives including the MoMA in New York City, Harvard University, and the La Rochelle Film Festival in France. He will also premiere his latest film, a short subject titled Plastic Bag (2009), as the opening night film of Corto Cortissimo in the Venice Film Festival where Bahrani was also on the jury for best first films.