SHOWING:
7 pm, Sat. 9/23 @ Harbert Center
directed by Ishai Setton
* Director/producer Ishai Setton is scheduled to attend.
THE BIG BAD SWIM is an ensemble comedy-drama about a group of people who meet at an adult education swim class. Male and female, old and young, rich and poor, the one thing they have in common is a fear of the water and their desire to overcome that fear and learn to swim. Our group focuses on an unlikely friendship between Amy, a middle-aged calculus teacher, and the beautiful young Jordan. Together with their swim teacher, Noah, they learn to face their fears and dive into the pool - and life - head first.
As the film progresses, we meet a fun group of phobic wannabe swimmers who overcome their fears of the water, including a local cop, an elderly woman, an eccentric mother-daughter duo and many others with their own interesting secrets. In the end, the film becomes a romantic and hopeful story about people seeking happiness and overcoming their fears. Not everyone makes it through the class, but those that do come to realize that life isn’t about learning to swim, but every once in a while forcing yourself to get in the water. Cast includes Paget Brewster of Showtime’s "Huff".
Director Bio:
Ishai Setton graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. His thesis film, THE BUTCHER AND THE HOUSEWIFE, an 18-minute hard-rock romantic-musical screened festivals, including Seattle, GenArt festivals. Ishai served as producer of the feature length documentary, OCHO CANDELAS, about a community of converted Jews in Veracruz, Mexico. THE BIG BAD SWIM is Ishai’s feature-length directorial debut. He is currently working on a screenplay that combines his real passions, from spring break to French toast to outlet malls.
Screens with COPENHAGEN CYCLES, directed by Eric Dyer (6 min. / Denmark). A bicyclist travels through a fantastical, collaged reconstruction of Denmark's capital city. Dyer combines the pre-cinema zoetrope with high-definition digital video technology to explore the kinetics of Copenhagen.
