Starring Demián Bichir and Julia Goldani Telles
Directed by Roxy Shih
Tribeca Festival 2024 Screenings
World Premiere
Saturday, June 8th at 8:00pm
Village East Cinemas
Public Screening #2
Sunday, June 9th at 9:30pm
AMC 19th St. East
Press & Industry Screening
Monday, June 10th at 2:45pm
AMC 19th St. East
Public Screening #3
Thursday, June 13th at 9:15pm
Village East Cinemas
Synopsis
Emily (Julia Goldani Telles, The Affair), a young solo female sailor, finds herself shipwrecked and badly hurt on a remote island. She is rescued by the island’s lone inhabitant, Ismael (Academy Award nominee Demián Bichir, Godzilla vs. Kong), the operator of the world’s most isolated lighthouse. Due to the stormy conditions a rescue from the mainland will have to wait, so Emily recuperates with the help of Ismael. But as the rescue date approaches, Ismael seems to begin to act increasingly erratic, and Emily begins to suspect that Ismael may have intentionally disabled his lighthouse to entrap her, and others before her. But Ismael has his own suspicions of his unexpected guest and what brought her there. As tensions between them rise, Emily slowly loses her own tenuous grip on reality. Increasingly unsure of herself, she must find a way to survive and escape from this distant island prison.
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About the Director
Roxy Shih is a Taiwanese-American director who was nominated for best directing at the Daytime Emmys in 2020 for her work on Dark/Web. She has directed episodes on both seasons of The Haunted Museum, a series produced by Zak Bagans and Eli Roth, which can be viewed on Max. In 2021, Shih directed the entire series of Facebook Watch’s Mira Mira, a smash-hit seen by over 60 million viewers. The show broke the record for the highest viewed Crypt TV series on Facebook Watch. Her feature List of a Lifetime, with Kelly Hu and Shannen Doherty, was acquired by Lifetime and served as their centerpiece film for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It was nominated for Best Made-For-TV Movie by the 2022 Critic’s Choice Awards and Hollywood Critics Associations Awards. In 2016, Shih directed her debut feature, the post-apocalyptic thriller The Tribe, and in 2019, she directed the horror-thriller Painkillers, which premiered on Hulu.
A big champion of her community, Shih co-founded the Taiwanese American Film Festival in Los Angeles and previously served as the festival director for two years.
