Take the World’s Fair Challenge | IRL 8BIT AMA with Director Jane Schoenbrun (Tomorrow!)

Take the World’s Fair Challenge* with Director Jane Schoenbrun Tomorrow, Tuesday May 3rd, on Gather *actually a Virtual Watch Party and Unique Live Q+A Experience Join on Gather Join us tomorrow for a virtual watch party (7pm) followed by a conversation (8:30pm) with We’re All Going to the World’s Fair writer-director Jane Schoenbrun moderated by Emma Stefansky (Thrillist), and explore a custom 8-bit world inspired by the film where you can chat with Jane and other guests. The Gather space will open at 8pm ET. Gather is a video chat platform designed to make virtual interactions more human, letting multiple people hold separate conversations in parallel, walking in and out of those conversations just as easily as they would in real life. Read more about how Gather played a unique role in We’re All Going to the World’s Fair‘s Sundance premiere + party “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair” Synopsis Late on a cold night somewhere in the U.S., teenage Casey (Anna Cobb in her feature debut) sits alone in her attic bedroom, scrolling the internet under the glow-in-the-dark stars and black-light posters that blanket the ceiling. She has finally decided to take the World’s Fair Challenge, an online role-playing horror game, and embrace the uncertainty it promises. After the initiation, she documents the changes that may or may not be happening to her, adding her experiences to the shuffle of online clips available for the world to see. As she begins to lose herself between dream and reality, a mysterious figure reaches out, claiming to see something special in her uploads. About the Filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun (Writer, Director, Editor) is a non-binary filmmaker who co-created the ongoing touring variety series The Eyeslicer, a collaboration with hundreds of filmmakers including David Lowery, Ari Aster, Shaka King, Jennifer Reeder, Bridey Elliott, and many more. The Eyeslicer is executive produced by arts collective Meow Wolf and has screened in hundreds of venues across the world including MoMA, the Tribeca Film Festival, and Kansas City’s oldest porn theater. In 2018, Jane created the Radical Film Fair, a film flea market and mentorship event that drew thousands of attendees. Jane is the director of the feature documentary A Self-Induced Hallucination (Rotterdam 2019), a producer on Aaron Schimberg’s Chained for Life (Kino Lorber, 2019), an EP on season one of Terence Nance’s “Random Acts of Flyness” (HBO, 2018), and the creator of the omnibus ‘dream film’ collective:unconscious (SXSW 2016). Jane sometimes publishes the column “Continue Watching” for FILMMAKER Magazine, and has previously worked as the Senior Film Lead at Kickstarter and as the Associate Director of Programming at IFP. We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is their first narrative feature as writer/director. Director: Jane Schoenbrun Writer: Jane Schoenbrun Starring: Anna Cobb, Michael J. Rogers Music: Alex G Editor: Jane Schoenbrun Cinematographer: Daniel Patrick Carbone Executive Producers: Daniel Patrick Carbone, Hannah Dweck, Matthew Petock, Theodore Schaefer, Zachary Shedd Producers: Sarah Winshall, Abby Harri, Carlos Zozaya Running Time: 86 mins UTOPIA Official Site | Facebook | Twitter