"Lay in Wait" Ends Festival Run

With all the changes going on in my life lately, I haven't had much time to reflect on a bittersweet milestone. My short film Lay in Wait, a delicious albatross that I've been wearing around my neck for the last four years, will be completing its festival run this weekend at the South Dakota Film Festival.

Y'all know how much this movie has meant to me. It's seen the start (and end) of at least three romantic relationships. It's seen my change of residence from LA to SC to NE to SC to ATL to MI and back to ATL. It's given me, as a precious little gift, a bundle of every conceivable emotion, from euphoria to bone-grating frustration to depression to well-earned peace.

It's easily the most ambitious, and most difficult thing I've ever had to make. And like a lot of projects that we do, I'm a different person now than when I began to make it. I hope a wiser and more considerate artist, one who's ready to move on.

So thank you all. I've said this from the very beginning, but I couldn't have made this project without your help. I'm only as good as you allow me to be.

Jonathan Ade

Raised in suburban Washington, DC, Jonathan Ade began making movies at eight years old. Since that time, he developed his passion for creating uniquely-held, cinematic narratives.

He earned his BFA in Film Production at Emerson College, where his Senior Thesis film, “Through and Away”, won the Jury Prize for Best Film at the National Film Festival for Talented Youth. Additionally, in the field of comedy, Jonathan was the co-creator of the hit mashup trailer "Brokeback to the Future", an early blueprint for the now-endemic viral video, now on view at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens.

From 2010-2013, Jonathan wrote and directed a series of short films entitled "Meditations", in which each short focuses on an introspective moment of everyday life. The series has received numerous laurels from dozens of film festivals across the country.

His latest film, "Lay in Wait", starring Elizabeth Olin ("Killing Season", Academy Award-winning "God of Love") and Michael Stahl-David ("Cloverfield", "Show Me A Hero") was completed in November of 2014 and began its festival run in April 2015 with the 24th Annual Arizona International Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Prize for Best Cinematography. It went on to the Little Rock Film FestivalMammoth Lakes Film FestivalNickel Independent Film FestivalBlue Whiskey Independent Film FestivalHollyshorts Film Festival, Emerson LA Film Festival, Full Bloom Film FestivalFt. Lauderdale International Film Festival, East Lansing Film FestivalLaguna Film Festival, North Wales Film Festival and Queens World Film Festival. The short is Executive Produced by Lucas Neff, star of Raising Hope on Fox. 

In 2014, Jonathan expanded his oeuvre into installation art when he was selected for a long-term artistic residency at Hub-Bub in Spartanburg, South Carolina, where he created site-specific films at the intersection of cinema and traditional installation. That led to a second artistic residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center For The Arts in Nebraska City in March 2015. His third and current residency at Interlochen Academy for the Arts began in January 2016.

http://www.jonokino.com
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