Samsung
Role Play
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Two white friends try to talk about race.
“Powerful”
John Biewen, Seeing White Podcast
“Utterly captivating”
Serafima Serafimova, Short of the Week
“A Phone Call From My Best Friend” feels unusually prescient and urgent, especially during this current political moment of reckoning in America, when people are scrutinizing ideas about silence, politeness, “color-blindness” and neutrality and how they fit into the perpetuation of racism.
As a result, the film is a true conversation piece — a meta-conversation if you will — and is provocative not in the sense of fomenting extreme emotion, but offering a jumping-off point of self-reflection and thought. “A Phone Call From My Best Friend” is in many ways a quieter than expected film — disciplined, naturalistic, almost like an episode of whatever the HBO young urbanite show of the year is — but its impact is much bigger than initial appearances. It leaves its final questions in the hands of the audience to answer, as well as an uneasiness that’s up to us to reconcile and reckon with.”
Kat Ascharya
“Coming at a time when questions like these need to be asked the most, this is a film that encourages us not to be complacent about our occupation of the moral high ground.”
Nigel Morgan
OFFICIAL PREMIERE: Booooooom.com
FEATURED: Shots.net + Shots Best of the Month: July 2020
SHORTLIST: 2020 1.4 Awards
SPECIAL PREVIEW: Filmmaker Magazine’s Rathaus Escapes
REVIEW: Cameo Launch
FEATURED: Palo Alto Weekly
OFFICIAL SELECTION: 2020 Maryland Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION: 2020 BendFilm Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION: 2020 Sun Valley Film Festival
Director, Writer, Editor
Alexander Christenson
Producer
Jeff Spivack
Madison
Celeste Arias
Chrissy
Auden Thornton
Rebecca
Emily Van Raay
Cinematographer
Michael Belcher
Casting Director
Dayna Katz
Co-Producer
Miriam Naggar
Co-Producer
Christopher Hawthorne
Production Manager
Will Dennis
Gaffer
Emma Penrose
Steadicam Operator
Lisa Sene
First Assistant Camera
Jeffrey David Schultz
First Assistant Camera
Steven Tong
Second Assistant Camera
Noah Broch
Key Grip
Jay Warrior
Production Sound Mixer
Lily Bernstein
Script Supervisor
Alan Klassen
Costume Designer
Rachel Dainer-Best
Makeup Artist
Mary Chipman
Art Department Assistant
Persia Beheshti
Production Assistant
David Perez
Sound Mixer
Calvin Pia
Additional Compositing
Herculano Fernandes
Color Services Provided by
Nice Shoes
Colorist
Sal Malfitano
Color Producer
Andrew Pandolfino
Color Producer
Elizabeth Mitchell