Co-Producer, Co-Director, Writer, Editor
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Produced by Kelsey Zhen, Alize Abdelhak
Directed by Kelsey Zhen, Alize Abdelhak
Written by Kelsey Zhen
Director of Photography Michael J. Quill
1st Unit 1st AC Jane Doucette
1st Unit Gaffer Melanie Nesteruk
1st Unit Key Grip Brian Johnson
1st Unit Boom Operator Yutong Li
1st Unit PA Charles Wainwright
2nd Unit 1st AC Evan Haacke
2nd Unit 2nd AC Jeffrey Ochoa-Alvarez
2nd Unit Boom Operator Travis Chea
2nd Unit PA Thao Pham
Editor Kelsey Zhen
Motion Graphics Artist Jeffrey Ochoa-Alvarez
Music Licensing Supervisor Russell Zingler
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Annie Christine Dvorak
June Hampton Richards
Young Annie Chiara Staroselsky
Young June Nia Dancey
Caller Jackson Evans
Driver Dennis Staroselsky
Set in Massachusetts, Backseat Girls is an homage to where Alize and I studied film production and grew into our skin as young adults. We had three starting points: we wanted to work with kids. We wanted to film a piece that was as visually stunning as a winter beach. And we wanted to truthfully tell a story that we wholeheartedly felt at 22.
I had this idea that was inspired from a trip to the Cape years ago, of two besties running a radio station on a beach, so I started from there and started lacing together real voices and footage to make this almost a scrapbook/sign-off letter we were writing as college seniors, addressing the children at heart we keep inside of us.
