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Paper SpidersPaper Spiders

Paper Spiders

October 8-12, 2020

Virtual Screening

Paper Spiders

Inon Shampanier (Dir), 110 minutes, WNY Premiere, USA

College bound Melanie (Stefania LaVie Owen) navigates senior year and her mother Dawn’s (Lili Taylor) struggles with mental illness in Inon Shampanier’s sensitive and nuanced drama, filmed in Syracuse, NY.

Watch the filmmaker Q+A here!

  • Still from Paper Spiders

    Still from Paper Spiders

    Directed by: Inon Shampanier

October 8-12, 2020

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