Cat Person

Two young women huddle in the darkness their faces illuminated by the light of a cell phone they are both looking at.
A taller man and a shorter woman stand face to face gazing into each other's eyes on a dark street corner.

Susanna Fogel directs this genre-bending thriller about the horrors of dating in the 21st Century, adapted by Michelle Ashford from the acclaimed New Yorker short story by Kristen Roupenian. 

When Margot, a college sophomore (Emilia Jones ) goes on a date with the older Robert (Nicholas Braun), she finds that IRL Robert doesn’t live up to the Robert she has been flirting with over texts. Cat Person is a razor-sharp exploration of the gender divide, the quagmire of navigating modern dating and the dangerous projections we make in our minds about the person at the other end of our phones.

Director Susanna Fogel will join for a Zoom Q&A after the screening on Wednesday, November 8 at 7pm.

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Susanna Fogel is a director, screenwriter, and novelist. Most recently, she wrapped production on Winner, a feature biopic of American whistleblower Reality Winner starring Emilia Jones, Connie Britton, Zach Galifinakis, and Kathryn Newton. She is also in postproduction on the World War II-set limited series Small Light for NatGeo and Disney+ starring Bel Powley and Liev Schreiber.

Prior feature work includes cowriting the hit comedy Booksmart, for which she was nominated for a BAFTA and a WGA Award, directing and cowriting Lionsgate's The Spy Who Dumped Me starring Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon, and directing and cowriting Magnolia Pictures LIFE PARTNERS, which she developed at the Sundance Lab. On the television side, her directing credits include the pilot episode of the HBO Max series The Flight Attendant, for which she won a DGA Award and was nominated for an Emmy, the pilot of the Amazon series The Wilds, episodes of Gillian Flynn’s remake of Utopia, and an installment of Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories. 

Among other projects, Susanna is currently developing a 1970s Moscow-set television series for Peacock and an action movie for Sony. She is also an avid writer of satire whose pieces have been featured in The New Yorker. Her first novel, Nuclear Family, was published by Macmillan in 2017.

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