Female Captive

A journey inside the mind of a female hostage as all the conflicting parts of her compete over how best to escape. Female Captive features an acrobatic performance from Pauline Chalamet as all six characters inside her own head.

"Desires and fears and values have been shaped by fairytales, action films, romance novels, true crime stories, and the feminist critiques of them all. Do I have to fight to be a good feminist? Is it shameful to hope for rescue instead? Am I allowed to be submissive as a strategy?"

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Brit Crawshaw

The mind-bending score was created entirely from manipulations of the voice. A task for which Evan enlisted the talents of leading New York experimentalist Lea Bertucci, who provided a treasure trove of unique articulations from which each sound was crafted.

Starring
Pauline Chalamet
Emilio Garcia-Sanchez


Writer
Brit Crawshaw

Directors + Editors
Brit Crawshaw
Josh Hayward


Director of Photography
Kayla Hoff

Producers
Lauren Lukow
Katrina Kudlick

Executive Producers
Carolina Groppa
John Limotte


Associate Producer
Nina Kadjar

Production Designer
Pili Weeber

Music
Evan Gildersleeve

Sound Design
Sound Canvas

SIFF Official Selection 2024