EXCLUSIVE: Roxy Sophie Sorkin will make her feature directorial debut with Hot Year, an indie coming-of-age revenge thriller that she also wrote. Kathryn Newton, Storm Reid, Dove Cameron, J. Smith Cameron, and Owen Painter have been set to star, with production to begin in Oklahoma in May.
“Hot Year is an exploration into brutal honesty and boiling, seething, grotesque womanhood,” Sorkin said. “It’s a movie I wish I had held dear when I was 18. It’s a forehead kiss and a spit in the face. Be prepared to wear fairy wings and bring Fireball.”
Set against the eerie backdrop of a small Pacific Northwest town during a relentless heatwave, Hot Year
follows two childhood best friends whose bond is pushed to the brink after a revenge plan against an ex-boyfriend spirals into a violent incident they can’t take back. Over the course of one feverish night, the pair must navigate
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