Film Fest to Feature 'The French Italian'

(Press Release) ​(West Palm Beach, FL – January 14, 2025) The Donald M. Ephraim Sun & Stars International Film Festival© (SASIFF), presented by MorseLife, returns early next year with more than two-dozen world-class movies from all over the world, concluding with THE FRENCH ITALIAN, which The Daily Beast calls “the funniest New York movie in years.” The Florida Premiere of this funny, funny film will be shown on Sunday, February 2, at 7 pm at EVO Entertainment Delray Marketplace

 
THE FRENCH ITALIAN
(Comedy, 2024, Florida Premiere. Directed by Rachel Wolther. USA, 92-minutes)

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​A white lie about a plate of cookies is the first tipoff to the flexible ethics of 30-something Manhattan hipsters Valerie (Catherine Cohen) and Doug (Aristotle Athari). Trouble brews in the haven of their Upper West Side rent-controlled apartment when horrendous noise from below begin to punctuate their days. Rather than confronting the couple downstairs, the pair plan to trap their neighbor’s actress girlfriend with a complex revenge scheme involving auditions and rehearsals for a non-existent play.  Spinning a comic clash of New York types and lifestyles, director/co-writer Wolther escalates the action to the tipping point of a fake opening night, where Emmy-nominated comedian Ikechukwu Ufomadu manages to steal the show in a tour de force performance. Chloe Cherry co-stars.
 
Two VIPs from the film are expected to attend SASIFF’s closing night screening in Delray Beach and participate in a post-show discussion with the audience:
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+ Miranda Kahn, the film’s producer. She is the Founder, CEO, and Executive Producer of MIRMADE Productions, a female-run boutique production company. She began her career working on network television shows like HBO’s Girls, ABC’s Forever, and Bradley Cooper’s Limitless, before transitioning to the indie film scene as an Assistant Director and Production Manager, eventually earning DGA membership. Ms. Kahn has taken projects to prestigious festivals, including the Emmys, Sundance, Cannes, Venice, and Tribeca. In 2019, she founded MIRMADE, expanding her work into commercials and music videos, collaborating with Oscar-winning producers, Grammy-winning artists like Lady Gaga and Nas, and entities such as A24, HBO, and Vogue. She has produced four feature films (including one shot in Florida) and over a dozen shorts, including The French Italian, which premiered at Tribeca 2024, and Say Hi After You Die, which won the 2024 Sundance U.S. Fiction Jury Award. Most recently, she executive produced Moon Lake, which screened at Venice Film Festival. Committed to empowering female filmmakers, Miranda has also ventured into directing, with her debut short Fame and Other Four Letter Words in post-production.
 
+  Ikechukwu "Ike" Ufomadu is an actor/comedian who was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2022 for Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Dama Series. He has appeared in the movies Judas and the Black Messiah and Inspector Ike, six episodes of the Showtime talk show Ziwe, and the off-Broadway play Dance Nation (where the cast received a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble).
 
For more information about the Film Festival or to purchase tickets, please visit www.sasiff.org.