My First Film (2024) on Netflix
Vita looks back on her first feature, a semi-autobiographical film she shot with her friend Dina in the lead. Her eager, inexperienced approach throws the production into disorder.
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- Netflix3.8/5
- IMDb6.2/101,150 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes90%
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Plot summary
Vita is a young filmmaker making her first feature, a semi-autobiographical film drawn from her own life and starring her friend Dina. Friends and family fill out the cast and crew, and she comes to the shoot with more eagerness than experience. The production meets with significant disruptions, and fifteen years later she recounts the struggle to get that first film made.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about My First Film (2024)
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- Zia Anger's semi-autobiographical film draws on her own first feature, Always All Ways, Anne Marie, shot between 2010 and 2012 with her family and friends as cast and crew, which multiple film festivals rejected and IMDb left listed as "abandoned".
- After those rejections, Zia Anger built an interactive live performance out of a TextEdit documentary and QuickTime files of the abandoned feature, pulling viewers in through iMessage and AirDrop.
