Abby Harri
SIDE HUSTLE
Post-production financial grant for color and sound mixing.
About the project: SIDE HUSTLE follows a day and night in the life of Eden, a dancer in New York City who pays the bills with financial support from her sugar daddy. Documentary interviews with sugar babies and sex workers weave diegetically into Eden's fictional story through her consumption and interaction with social media, contextualizing her experience within a community of voices.
About the filmmaker: Abby Harri is a casting director, director, non-actor acting coach, and casting scout. She specializes in non-traditional casting and finding new talent on films such as Jane Schoenbrun's WE’RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD’S FAIR (Sundance 2021), Anna Cobb's feature debut; Savanah Leaf's EARTH MAMA (A24, Sundance 2023) with newcomer Tia Nomore; Riley Keough and Gina Gammell's WAR PONY (Cannes Camera d'Or, 2022); the Safdie Brothers’ UNCUT GEMS; Seasons 1 and 2 of HBO’s EUPHORIA; Jane Schoenbrun's two upcoming features I SAW THE TV GLOW (post-production, A24) and NEVADA (pre-production, Tango); Pulitzer-Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker's upcoming feature film debut (produced by Academy-Award-winner Dan Janvey, BBC Films, and A24); and Zia Anger's upcoming feature film debut (post-production, MUBI) based on her critically acclaimed performance MY FIRST FILM. SIDE HUSTLE is her first short as a director.