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Nick Pinkerton and Sean Price Williams' The Sweet East comes to Now Instant for the release of the film's companion zine, from illustrator Nathan Gelgud.
The Sweet East zine will be included with every ticket purchase.
"The Sweet East is a flare shot across the sky of America. America made this film.
We hoped to make something relevant about our home. In fact, it's an old country, but its back is strong, its muscles are robust, the joints limber; and isn't it exciting to see where we are next driven?
But, perhaps we take ourselves too seriously.
The Sweet East has its own pretensions of significance signaled by references to American cinema history.
But we are patriots. It's a nation rich with character and color.
Our heroine is Lillian – like our own nation, she can seem both knowing and naïve. Is she a young woman still finding her own way? Or is she the oldest constitutional democracy on earth and already plenty grown up?
Is it a coming-of-age road movie, or is it a story about staying true to yourself when you don’t know 100% who you are. The important thing is that we are unsure about everything. Because being sure is boring. Being sure is what traps us."
The Sweet East
A picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the United States. Lillian, a high school senior from South Carolina, 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 road trip in search of America. Along the way, she falls in with a variety of strange factions, each living out their own alternative realities in our present day.
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