The Sweet East

by Sean Price Williams

The Sweet East

Synopsis

The Sweet East is a picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the United States undertaken by Lillian, a high school senior from South Carolina who gets her first glimpse of the wider world on a class trip to Washington, D.C. Separated from her schoolmates, she embarks on a fractured fairy tale travelogue into America, where she is granted access to a variety of the strange factions that proliferate the present-day unreality of contemporary life.

Director

Sean Price Williams was born on August 1, 1977 in Wilmington, Delaware, USA. As a cinematographer, he has worked on numerous major independent films by directors such as Josh and Benny Safdie, Ronald Bronstein, Michael Almereyda, Alex Ross Perry, Robert Greene, Albert Mayles and Abel Ferrara. Williams moves in a variety of genres, shaping both fiction and documentary. His visions are characterized by striking uses of color and image texture. With "The Sweet East", in addition to image design, he also appears as a director of his own feature film for the first time.

 

DIRECTOR'S FILMOGRAPHY

2023 The Sweet East

 

Cast

Talia Ryder
Simon Rex
Earl Cave
Jacob Elordi
Jeremy O. Harris
Ayo Edebiri
Rish Shah

Crew

Director: Sean Price Williams
Writer: Nick Pinkerton
Producer: Craig Butta, Alex Coco, Alex Ross Perry
DP: Sean Price Williams
Production Designer: Madeline Sadowski
Editor: Stephen Gurewitz
Original Music: Paul Grimstad
Sound Design: Dean Hurley

Technical Data

Original title: The Sweet East
International title: The Sweet East
Duration: 104 min
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Format: DCP
Sound: 5.1
Year: 2023
Original language: English
Country of production: United States
Production Companies: Marathon Street, Base 12

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