Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) w/ Director Sierra Falconer

Opens on October 5

Run Time: 120 min.

TICKETS $15

Doors 7:00 p.m.; Event 7:30 p.m.
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THE EXPERIENCE

We’re delighted to welcome Sierra Falconer, whose luminous debut feature Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, for a screening and moderated conversation about her filmmaking journey.

Set over the course of a single Michigan summer, Falconer’s film weaves together the lives of a fourteen-year-old girl at her grandparents’ lake house, a young virtuoso at music camp, a listless bartender, and two sisters running a bed-and-breakfast. With a patient, sun-dappled gaze, Sunfish captures the fleeting moments where restlessness gives way to transformation, and connection blooms in unexpected ways.

Following the screening, Falconer will join us on stage to discuss her creative process, filmmaking journey, and the real-life inspirations behind the film’s tender, interwoven portraits with guest moderator Portland based filmmaker Anna Campbell.

ON SCREEN: Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake)

2025. Directed by Sierra Falconer. Runtime: 87 minutes.

Cradled by the woods and water of Green Lake, Michigan, Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) unfolds over the course of a summer where the intertwined stories of locals and visitors linger at the edge of personal transformation.

Sierra Falconer’s assured directorial debut casts a steady, sun-dappled gaze on the interconnected summers of a fourteen year-old girl at her grandparents’ lake house, a young virtuoso at music camp, a listless bartender, and two sisters running a bed and breakfast; fleeting moments imbued with humanity and introspection. Like the birds and the trees quietly observing life around the lake, Falconer’s sensitivity as a director allows the characters to be studied in all their restlessness and yearning for connection.

ON STAGE: Sierra Falconer and Anna Campbell

Sierra Falconer is a Michigan-raised, Los Angeles-based screenwriter and director. She holds a BFA in film theory from Wesleyan University and an MFA in film directing from UCLA. Her directorial debut, Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake), premiered in competition at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

Anna Campbell is a director, producer, and actor born in Portland, OR. After graduating with honors from Vassar College, she moved back to the west coast to pursue her dreams of being an actor in Los Angeles. A few years in, she realized that producing and eventually directing were an essential part of having a voice in the stories being made, at which point she fully embraced being a hyphenate. Her first feature film, NORA, which she wrote, produced, and directed (as well as staring in!) won the New Visions award at the Cinequest film festival before it’s theatrical release in 2024.

As an actor, her very first role was on Veronica Mars, and she has appeared on Mad Men, NCIS LA, Leverage, Grimm, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, Teachers and NCIS. She is deeply proud of her work in the independent film world, producing on the documentaries the Hood to Coast movie, Magicians , and the narrative films Single Mother by Choice, You, Me, and Her among others. She loves her children, rescuing dogs, cooking and baking, obsessively watching movies, hiking and learning every day.

PRESENTED BY: The Future of Film Is Female

The FOFIF amplifies the work of all women and non-binary filmmakers early in their career through our grant program for short films, our unique programming commitment to theatrical representation (including distribution), our community building with women in the industry to facilitate necessary culture change, and through ensuring equal representation within all of our programs. The FOFIF believes that gender equality is intersectional with racial and LGBTQI+ equality and is therefore committed to creating industry-wide partnerships to work in solidarity towards an equitable future of film.