A Driving Lesson

Narrative Short

Director: C. Fraser Press

RT: 25mins

Friday September 28 7:05PM

Website: http://adrivinglesson.com

Synopsis:

It is a lovely autumn day and Leslie has taken her daughter Brooke out for a driving lesson on a quiet country road. Unfortunately Leslie is a psychologist unable to pry herself away from her cell phone and the needy patients on the other end, and Brooke is a teenager unable to pry herself away from her own adolescent exasperation. Typical mother daughter friction, until, Brooke hits a small animal, Leslie's patient begins talking suicide and silence is broken on the quiet country road when an elderly couple come barreling along in their Station Wagon.  

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Filmmaker Bio:

An Emmy nominated actress and writer, C. Fraser Press began her professional career with the famed LaMama Theatre company in New York City where she performed in Andre Serban's Fragments Of A Greek Trilogy both in NYC and on tour in the Middle East. She continued to act in theater in both Los Angeles and New York City. On stage nationally and on network and cable television, she has performed improvisation and stand-up comedy as well as three critically acclaimed one-woman shows. A Driving Lesson marks her film writer/director debut.

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