ABOUT
Smudge Films is an independent production company dedicated to making personal films with unique worldviews.
Founded in 2016 by producer Sarah Winshall, our films have played at Sundance, New Directors/New Films, SXSW, AFI Fest, Rotterdam, SFFilm, SIFF, CPH:DOX, Outfest, Rotterdam, BAM Cinemafest, MoMA, on the Criterion Channel, as Vimeo Staff Picks, and more.
We make shorts, features, docs, experimental videos, music videos, commercials, web series, and TV shows. We are based in Los Angeles.
As the date of her first televised appearance draws near, a hideously ugly cello prodigy and her Stage Mother grapple with public expectations and the throes of puberty.
DIRECTOR Clara Mamet
STARRING Katja Grober, Clara Mamet, Rebecca Pidgeon PRODUCERS Jacob Agger, Adam Wyatt Tate, Sarah Winshall